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

¶ Of the dysloca∣cie of the bonys of the shulders. Ca. lxxxi. (Book 81)

THis bone cometh not hole out y^e ioynt / but that bone de••a••¦teth somwhat out his place 〈◊〉〈◊〉 than shall ye helpe y^e bone 〈◊〉〈◊〉 your hande & ther ouer y^e a••or¦sayde plaster / And lay ther ou•••• small 〈◊〉〈◊〉 shyns of fyue to we / and therafter splentes & euery daye the desen 〈…〉〈…〉 hym blood & goynge to the drawght and rule hym u•• mete and drynke as is aforsayd. ¶ Is there a woūde sowe them / & lay theron this pow¦der of Mastick Dragōs blood / Gomi ara¦bici / Dragantū / of eche. ii. oū••. Therafter clense the wounde 〈◊〉〈◊〉 this plaster. ix. dayes longe. Take••ose hony. xii. oūc. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 meel / or barly meel / or mylst•••• meele. iii••. oūc. frākensence / aloes / of eche an oūc. & as the woūde is clensyd / thā hele it 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the ••am••

powder. or with the gren•• woūded plaster. or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 bothe. And his mete & drynke shall be as I haue sayd oftentymes before.