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.

Of the Cancer. Chapi. ii.

VNderstande that a Cancer is eyther vlcerate or not.* 1.1 A Cancer not vlcerate, either is mad•• by growinge euen from the beginnynge of putrefied melancholye, as we haue sayde in the Chapiter of melancholike Aposte∣mes: At whych time it beginneth to shewe lyke a Lupyne, and sometyme it groweth lyke a greate Melon: or else it is made by conuertion of a harde aposteme, comminge of na∣turalle melancholye not corrupted, by layinge to it empla∣sters that are made of hotte inflāmynge thynges: or by thinges to muche atractiue, inducinge humores to y^t place.

And thys being Ulcered, is then called a Cancer vlcerate: whiche also maye come ••f woundes vndiscretlye healed. A Cancer not vlcerate, in the beginnyng therof, is not ea∣sye to be knowne: Notwythstandinge the perfecte sygnes thereof are all readye declared. But the signes of a Cancer beinge vlcerate be these. Firste the brimnies thereof be grosse, harde, reuersed, and curn••••ly wythin: and it ••tinketh muche. And also this is thereof an infallible signe: If thou washe it wyth lye,‡ 1.2 there will come oute superfluityes lyke slimye spittle. The fyrste generall rule in the cure of a Cā∣cer, is, that it is neuer perfectlye healed, vnlesse it be vtter∣lye extirped, wyth all his rootes. And therfore of this rule springeth a seconde necessarye rule, that it oughte not to be cured by cauteryes, eyther actua••le or potentialle: except it be in suche a place where it maye vtterlye be hadde awaye. If therfore the Cancer not vlcerate, be in a place replet•• with veines, s••ewes, muscles and arteries, as in y^t necke, or in the mammilles, or such like: see then that thou enter∣prise not to ripe it, nor breake it, nor cutte it, nor cauteryze it: but purge the bodye wyth some medicyne, that purgeth choler aduste. And geue hym a temperate gouernance of life, forbiddinge all meates, ingrossinge and burnynge the bloude: as Lentiles, Cole wortes, Chese, Beefe, Hares fleshe, Goose fleshe, Duckes fleshe, and Peper: and al other sharp thinges. And anoynte the place, and about the same, wyth this Unguente folowinge: whyche wyll alaye and a∣swage the malice, and defende it from vlceration. Rec. Tutiae lauatae, Cerussae: Ana, partes equales. Incorporate these, cum Oleo Rosato, & succo portulac••, or of some other colde herbe. Incorporate this medicyne in a morter of leade, puttynge in nowe of the Oyle of Roses, and nowe of the Juice, tyl the oyntmente be perfectlye made: And anoynte therwyth the place. But if it be in suche a place that it may be taken vtterlye away: Then cutte it awaye rootes and all: lettyng it blede largelye, and thruslynge the blo••de oute of the cor∣rupted veines, that therby the melancholy bloude maye be cleane wasted. And then canterize it with a whotte Iron, or

a burninge medicine. Laying to it after that, a Cataplas∣ma de Succo Apii, Melle, & Farina Tritice••, tyl it be mundified. After the whyche, regenerate the fleshe, and consounde it. But if the Ulcerate Cancer be in anye place nouryshed, so that it maye not vtterly be taken away: Then is it not best to cure it wyth a whotte iron, or a caustike medicine. But it may be palliated by annoynting it with the vnguente of Tatiae and the diete aforesayde: and so maye the patyentes life be prolor••ged.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Cancer.
• ‡ 1.2

  For the whyche loke more in an annotation, set at the end of the. 4. part