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

¶ A powder.

Take bol•• armen•• / ambra or walderote / of eche. iiii. ounces / small barlye mele. vi. ounces / medled all to gyder. And I was wonte to do therto walstone. iii. ounces / & they be brought out of Zwytselonde / or ex •…•…uincia Heluetiarum.

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Nota ¶ I haue 〈◊〉〈◊〉 & her de a surge an made his booste to hele in. viii. dayes a parsoue that hathe broken his legge or arme. And thys to pro¦ue a dogges legge was broken / than med∣led he this powder afor sayd with y^e whyte of an egge / and layde it on te dogges legge and splented it / and as y^e. viii. dayes were past / than toke he the splentes of / and the dogges legge was hole. Terfore this is my counsayle to take this store for this cu∣re. that powder hathe such nature / yf there come ony swellynge to the bone at the fyrst tyme so gothe the swellynge shortly awaye with the sayd powder. The other maner is that after the. xii. or. xv. daies as porus be∣gynue to come / that is to knowe whan the payne is gone / and ther come none impostu¦macyon / and y^e membre is of good colour / than shall ye take of the bande / and wasshe the membre in warme water & lay thervpō a clothe stryken / and bynde it with all the bandes and splentes a foresayd / and bynde it som what faster. The fracture shalbe sal∣ued and dressed the. vii. or. ix. day. or more vnto the tyme that the bone be well bounde with that porus that is well knowē by me uynge and by the vnswellynge. The. iii. maner is that the membre shall be wasshed all thre dayes with good wyne wherein is sodden roses / wormode or abscintium in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 tyne / oken woode / and bounde with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 dept in y^e same wyne and pressyd out 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and bounde with. iii. or. iiii. splentes / 〈◊〉〈◊〉 shall the membre be brought by lytell and lytell to his olde workynge / and at the last shall the membre be made softe with Dyal the a / or oxcicrocium. ¶ The fourth maner is when the accydente is comynge / lyke yf ther were payne or impostumacyon / and yf the payne or impostumacyon be grete / that take away or it be boūde w^t the longe band that ther to belongeth. And yf it were well bounde after his belongynge / and ther com an impostumacyō or an vnreasonable pay∣ne / ther with is the surgean cōpelled y^e mē∣bre to open and to vnbynde / and to amende the accydent / and to helpe the nature. And that membre shall bestyll vnboundetyll y^e tyme the accydent and payne be takē away

Therfore must ye take away the payne (as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sayth) w^t the saluyng of warme oyle of roses. Or (as Guido sayth) w^t wolle depte in oyle of roses / & venegre / and layde ther ouer. And yf ther com scabbes or itchyn¦ge / than lose y^e byndynge / and make y^e bone moyst with warme water wherin is soddē a lytel salt & that membre ther w^t embroced and droppe with the water from aboue on the membre Or salue the membre with vn guentum album / or populeum as is afore sayth. When all the accydentes is taken away thā tourne agayne to the byndyng of the membre. ¶ If ther be a wounde where in be smal peces of bones they must be takē out / and hele the woūde as I haue sayd in the chaptre of broken bones. And after goo to the helynge as is afore sayd. As the mat∣ter cometh out / make an hole in the bande / wher through the wounde may be clensed.