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 dysmen∣brynge of the elbowe. Ca. lxxxiij. (Book 83)

THis dislocatiō of y^e elbow as (Auicenna sayth) is somtymes grete / & somtymes small / Al∣buca. & other maysters sayth y^t it gothe somtymes forward out the ioynt / and somtyme be hynde / The token of this dysmembrynge is heuynes in y^e meuynge / that it is not possy∣ble the pacyent to brynge the hand to y^e shul¦der / The elbow cometh heuely out y^e ioynt & is heuely to set in agayne / for thesene wes & daynes. Of the settynge in and cure sayth Auicenna that it is i••. ii. maners / the fyrst with the ony hand holde the shulder / with y^e other hand to dryue in it agayn that is out / w^t styff detynge behynde on the elbowe / w^t a salued hand with oyle / tyll it cometh in a∣gayne / Rogerius sayth the maner of byn dynge / Lanca••r̄cancus set the cure therof w^t stretchynge & with vphanggynge / or with berynge or weyght / yf the dyslocaciō gothe forwarde or behynde warde / but Guydo set it in w^t the knee as dyslocacie is forward. is dyslocaciō it afterwarde or behynde so set he it in the hande (as Auicenna wryteth) & the maner of the insettynge with the knee or heele that shalbe done in it that is forwarde Je shall take a brode longhande about his arme / y^t the. ii. ende goo behynde & let your seruaunt hold bothe y^e endes in euery hande one / and the pacyent shalbe bounde on his foote / and shalbe holdē / and commaunde the pacyent to stretche out his arme / thā cō¦maunde the seruaūt with the hande to pull backwarde / than shall the mayster hastely the arme sett foremarde to senn the shulder agayn. Thā threst in w^t the knee that there stande outwarde / brenge the arme to the shulder. As it is out behynde / thā is good y^e arme to be bowed / & ouertwart by a lytell lyft vp the arme / & turne it somwhat (as Ja meric{is} sayth) In y^e fastmakinge of this cur•• folowe all thynges as I haue lerned in the aforesayde chaptre / but the arme shalbe be∣rynge about the necke / & by lytell and lytyl shall he be bounde hygher / tyll the hande co¦me to the shulder / and euery. iiii. daye shal it be dresseth onys. And at euery tyme shall be bowen the membre. And it is woūte to be heled in. xv. dayes.