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 necke / and backe bone. Ca. iiij. (Book 4)

TWo partes be in the necke / som do holden / & som be hol∣den / The holdyng partes be these / shynne flesshe / muscl•• stryngys / and bonys. The {per}tes that be holdyn be these. the throte bolle or trachea / ••sophagus or meri / that is wher the mete gothe through Epiglotū or gula / vaynes and strynges / and a parte of nucha. ¶ Fyrst is trachea ar¦teria / that is a waye of the brethe or ayr••

cōmynge frome the longues to the throte whyche is gaderyd & bounde to the syde of mery with a stronge & softe pānycle / after the throte on the spondyles is mery / or yso∣phag{is} / & is a waye of the descēdyng of our sode / & gothe from the throte to dyafragma & is madē out of. ii. cotys. the innermost is festyned with y^e skynne of the mouthe / and the vttermost cote is festyned to the pānicle of the belly & is fleshye / on these. ii. wayes on the syde of the mouth is Gula or Epiglo¦tus / & is a grystly parte made for the voce / & is the place of the swelowynge downe.:. ¶ Here after foloweth y^e dowble senowes to the stomacke / and to the lymmes descen∣dynge / & agayne ascendynge vpwarde by Epyglot{is}. After these be grete vaynes and strynges namyd Guidegi / or Apopleti / or subetales. The deuyded {per}tes go vpward through the sydes or the necke vnto y^e hyest partes / & the cuttynge of these be very ieo{per}¦dus. Spōdyle or rydge bone is al through percyd or boryd / where as Nucha or back mary gothe through / & there as y^e senowes in the syde gothe vp & downe / the backe is it that gothe from y^e heed to the rompe bone out of many & stronge spondyles folowyng eche other for the defence of the backe mary whyche be. xxx. in nōbre. vii. in the necke.. xii. by the shuld{er}s. v. by the lymmys aboue the hyppys. & after the bone callyd the holy bone / there be. iiii. In the necke be. vii. stō¦dyles through y^e whyche gothe. vii. cow∣pies of senowes from that parte of Nucha that gothe throught it / the whyche bere me uyng to the shulders / armys / & som places of the heed & necke ¶ Thus do as before is sayde in the necke / & worke by y^e length for it is the ryght waye of al y^e {per}tes in y^e necke.