A most excellent and learned vvoorke of chirurgerie, called Chirurgia parua Lanfranci Lanfranke of Mylayne his briefe: reduced from dyuers translations to our vulgar or vsuall frase, and now first published in the Englyshe prynte by Iohn Halle chirurgien. Who hath thervnto necessarily annexed. A table, as wel of the names of diseases and simples with their vertues, as also of all other termes of the arte opened. ... And in the ende a compendious worke of anatomie ... An historiall expostulation also against the beastly abusers, both of chyrurgerie and phisicke in our tyme: with a goodly doctrine, and instruction, necessary to be marked and folowed of all true chirurgie[n]s. All these faithfully gathered, and diligently set forth, by the sayde Iohn Halle.

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A most excellent and learned vvoorke of chirurgerie, called Chirurgia parua Lanfranci Lanfranke of Mylayne his briefe: reduced from dyuers translations to our vulgar or vsuall frase, and now first published in the Englyshe prynte by Iohn Halle chirurgien. Who hath thervnto necessarily annexed. A table, as wel of the names of diseases and simples with their vertues, as also of all other termes of the arte opened. ... And in the ende a compendious worke of anatomie ... An historiall expostulation also against the beastly abusers, both of chyrurgerie and phisicke in our tyme: with a goodly doctrine, and instruction, necessary to be marked and folowed of all true chirurgie[n]s. All these faithfully gathered, and diligently set forth, by the sayde Iohn Halle.
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Lanfranco, of Milan, 13th cent.
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Imprinted at London :: In Flete streate, nyghe unto saint Dunstones churche, by Thomas Marshe,
An. 1565.
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Surgery -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"A most excellent and learned vvoorke of chirurgerie, called Chirurgia parua Lanfranci Lanfranke of Mylayne his briefe: reduced from dyuers translations to our vulgar or vsuall frase, and now first published in the Englyshe prynte by Iohn Halle chirurgien. Who hath thervnto necessarily annexed. A table, as wel of the names of diseases and simples with their vertues, as also of all other termes of the arte opened. ... And in the ende a compendious worke of anatomie ... An historiall expostulation also against the beastly abusers, both of chyrurgerie and phisicke in our tyme: with a goodly doctrine, and instruction, necessary to be marked and folowed of all true chirurgie[n]s. All these faithfully gathered, and diligently set forth, by the sayde Iohn Halle." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05049.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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Of the cure of Apostemes made of an outwarde cause. Chapi. xii.

NOwe that we haue brieflye declared,* 1.1 the differences of apostemes: it is mete that we resorte to oure pur∣pose, that is to saye to the cure of them: followynge the doctrine of good authores, and oure longe experience. The cure of an aposteme comming f an outwarde cause, if it be of a wounde: is all readye taughte. But if it be of a bruse, a stroke, or of a fall, the stroke of a staffe, or of a stone: the best curation is, (if he that is hurte be yonge & stronge:) to let hym bloude on the contrarye side: but if he be weake to ventose hym,* 1.2 and annoynt the place wyth warme Oyle of Roses: strewinge thereon, when it is newlye anoynted, pouder of Mirtilles, for this manner of cure establisheth, and stayeth the place: excepte it be to great a bruse. But if

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the place be not defended from apostemation by this medi∣cine, but commeth to exiture: namelye the generatyon of quitture: let it be ryped, and sone opened, where the mater moste dependeth: and mundify the place wyth a mundifica∣tiue, made ex Farina tritici, aqua, & Melle, & after let it be re∣generate wyth fleshe, and then let it be confounded wyth incarnatiues and consolidatiues. Puttynge alwaye aboute the hurte place, a defensiue de Bolo Armeno, Oleo Rosacto, & Aceto,* 1.3 to the conseruation of the whole partes: least they be also corrupted. Of those consolidatiues, and incarnatiues thou shalt reade in the antidotary.

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