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 Bolus armenus. ii. ounces. Myrtil lorum. iiii. ounces. Dragons blood / Dra¦gantum / Gommy arabici / of eche halfe an ounce. and take clowtes and plumacioles depte in whyt of egges / & the powder stra∣wed thervpon / and laye it properly after y^e fourme of y^e nose / as I haue lerned you in the chaptre of the woundē in the face. ¶ I•• ye cannot put the fynger in y^e nose / then ma¦ke a tente of wood couered wyth olde lynns clothe depte in oyle of roses and put it in to the nose / and therwith threst vpwarde in to y^e nose / and with your other hande threst downward vnto y^e tyme y^e bone be brought in to his ryght place agayne / than dresse it with the whyte of an egge / and with that powder as is before sayd / and about y^e pla¦ce stryke that defensyffe of bolo armeno and oyle of coses / and a lytell vynagre mydled with y^e say of uyghtshawd or of solatrū in latyne. and do thys euery day. ¶ And whē ye shall dresse this nose / fyrst let hym blood on the hande / or with boxces on the shulder or with ga••ssynge / and with drawght go∣ynge / with supposytoria or glysters / and y^t shall lyghten the pacyent sore. And as you dresse hym the seconde tyme renewe y^e tente

with oyle of roses and with the aforesayde powder / And vpon the nose lay the forsayd powder of dragantū mydled w^t the whyte of an egge and dresse the nose therwyth at the. iii. or. iiii. daye. ¶ And yf the fracture or brekynge of y^e nose is sore woūded / sowe the skynne togyder as I haue sayde in the chaptre of the wounde of the nose. And lay the powder vpon y^e wounde / and hele it as in the chaptre a foresayd. & dresse the woūde euery day twyse / and rule hym with meete and drynke / & pryncypally he shall drynk reed wyne mydled with water.

¶ Of the brekynge & fracture of the brayn pan I haue sayd in the chatre of the woun∣des in the heed.