The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri, practysyd [and] compyled by the moost experte mayster Iherome of Bruynswyke, borne in Straesborowe in Almayne ... Item there after he hath authorysed and done it to vnderstande thrugh the trewe sentences of the olde doctours and maysters very experte in the scyence of surgery, as Galienus, Ipocras, Auicenna, Gwydo, Haly abbas, Lancfrancus of mylen, Iamericus, Rogerius, Albucasis, Place[n]tinus, Brunus, Gwilhelmus de saliceto, [and] by many other maysters whose names be wryten in this same boke. ... Item yf ye fynde ony names of herbes or of other thynges wherof ye haue no knowlege, yt shall ye knowe playnly by the potecarys. Item here shall you fynde also for to make salues, plasters, powders, oyles, and drynkes for woundes. Item who so desyreth of this science ye playne knowlege let hym oftentymes rede this boke, and than he shall gette perfyte vnderstandynge of the noble surgery

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The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri, practysyd [and] compyled by the moost experte mayster Iherome of Bruynswyke, borne in Straesborowe in Almayne ... Item there after he hath authorysed and done it to vnderstande thrugh the trewe sentences of the olde doctours and maysters very experte in the scyence of surgery, as Galienus, Ipocras, Auicenna, Gwydo, Haly abbas, Lancfrancus of mylen, Iamericus, Rogerius, Albucasis, Place[n]tinus, Brunus, Gwilhelmus de saliceto, [and] by many other maysters whose names be wryten in this same boke. ... Item yf ye fynde ony names of herbes or of other thynges wherof ye haue no knowlege, yt shall ye knowe playnly by the potecarys. Item here shall you fynde also for to make salues, plasters, powders, oyles, and drynkes for woundes. Item who so desyreth of this science ye playne knowlege let hym oftentymes rede this boke, and than he shall gette perfyte vnderstandynge of the noble surgery
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Brunschwig, Hieronymus, ca. 1450-ca. 1512.
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[Imprynted at London :: In Southwarke by Petrus Treueris,
In the yere of our lorde god. M.D.xxv. [1525] and the. xxvi. day of Marche]
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Surgery -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
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"The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri, practysyd [and] compyled by the moost experte mayster Iherome of Bruynswyke, borne in Straesborowe in Almayne ... Item there after he hath authorysed and done it to vnderstande thrugh the trewe sentences of the olde doctours and maysters very experte in the scyence of surgery, as Galienus, Ipocras, Auicenna, Gwydo, Haly abbas, Lancfrancus of mylen, Iamericus, Rogerius, Albucasis, Place[n]tinus, Brunus, Gwilhelmus de saliceto, [and] by many other maysters whose names be wryten in this same boke. ... Item yf ye fynde ony names of herbes or of other thynges wherof ye haue no knowlege, yt shall ye knowe playnly by the potecarys. Item here shall you fynde also for to make salues, plasters, powders, oyles, and drynkes for woundes. Item who so desyreth of this science ye playne knowlege let hym oftentymes rede this boke, and than he shall gette perfyte vnderstandynge of the noble surgery." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03315.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.

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¶ Of the woūdes of the feete / or amonge the toes. Ca. lviij.

THe wounde in this place must ye knowe yf it be shot with an arowe / stycked / or cutteth / yf it be ouertwhart or a length / and yf the arowe go throughe or not. And yf ye arow be in ye foote drawe it out as I haue lerned you in the. xvi. chapy¦tre / yf you fere there solde come payne ther∣to by the reason that there be many vaynes in the foote / fyll ye woūde wt warme oyl•…•… roses / and so you may drawe it out softely and lay in the mowth of ye wounde oyle of roses medled with rose hony / and about the wounde this defensiuum / of oyle of roses / boly armeny / wt a lytell vynegre / and as you be sure of anguysshe clense the wounde and hele it with the grene wounded plaster or with Jeuys plaster / If the cut wounde bleed sore / than stop ye bledynge as I haue lerned you in the chapytre of the woundes stoppynge / than sowe it and bynde it as I haue sayd in ye. xiij. chapytre / and lay vpon ye wounde ye powder of whyt frankensence dragons blood / the lyme of egge shelles / & aboute the wounde lay the defensyu afore¦sayd / then clense ye woūde / and hele it lyke another woūde. Also lay the foote hye & ke∣pe it metely warme so yt the moystnes come

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nottherin. ¶ And kepe the pacyent in rule of meet & dryuke / & of goynge to ye draught as I haue lerned you. Also you shal know yt the synewes cometh from the brayne. and yfthe foote be cut ye must be the more dyly∣gent and dredefull to take it in cure.

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