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.

Annotations vppon thys Chapiter.

a. Wheras Lanfraneus heare speaketh of .••. maners of loyninges, & describeth but. iiii. reade for thy larger contētation: the first chapyter of my firste treatise of Anatomye: where thou shalt learne, as wel the names, as the formes, or all manner of ioyninges of bones.

b. Because here also, he nameth the .vi. bones of the heade, to proue thys maner of cōnexion of bones: thou ma••ste not gather therof, that all those .vi. bones are so ioyned together, for that weare false. As by readynge the thirde chapiter, in the firste parte, of the thirde tr••••tite▪ of my Anotamye, thou mayste perceaue.

Of a Fracture. Chapi. ii.

IF anye bone be broken, fyrst reduce hym into his place: and then wete a lynnen clothe in Oleo Rosato,* 1.1 and laye it aboute the member. And then lay ouer and about that, an other clothe,* 1.2 wete in the forsaide medicyne, wrytten in the Chapiter of Dislocation. And vppon that clothe, laye smalle boulsters of towe, wete in Album••••e oui, and ouer that towe, binde splintes wyth cordes. And see that the splintes be made accordinge to the figure and quantitye of the member: bindinge it so that it remoue not, least the re∣mouynge of the member hinder the restoration. lettinge it not to be opened vntill the .x. daye: excepte one of these .iii. thynges folowing, constreigne thee to open it. That is to

wete, muche payne, caused throughe harde bindynge: or by the course of humores,* 1.3 gatheryng to an aposteme: or great Itch. If paine and ache, or the fluxe of humores be y^e cause: vnbinde it and anoynte the place cum Oleo Rosato, and lette hym bloude on the contrary syde. And restreigne the pati∣entes diete: taryinge so till the fluxe of humores be ceased, and then binde it vp agayn. But if Itche be the cause: then vnbinde it, and washe it wyth warme water, & then binde it vp agayne: Lettyng it so continue till it be consounded. I wyll also wryte amonge other consolidatiue medicynes, in the antidotarye: a medicine that is beste in Fractures, and in Dislocations. But note thys, that in euerye worcke of Chirurgerye, it is nedefulle and necessarie, that then in∣deuoure thy selfe to worke, aboue and beyond that whiche thou findest wrytten in bokes, and especiallye in Algebra. For euerye science that dependeth vpon workyng by the hand, is muche fortified by experiment and practise.

An Annotation vpon the. ii. Chapiter of the thirde parte.

‡ Ba••••e Viscose are the woordes of Lanfranke, aboute the whiche I was somewhat troubled: for Ba••••e is a worde out of vse amonge the learned, and therfore not to a fewe of them vnknowne. Howe be it I thinkinge (because Lanfran∣cus was of Milayne,) that it myghte perhappes be some Italian worde: thoughte good to conferre the same with some learned Italians, of whome I receiued thys inter∣pretacion: Ba••••e say they is the dr••uling spitlle of suckynge children. And therefore haue I englished Ba••••e Viscose slimy spittle, whyche thoughe I thoughte I myghte safely so doe, ye•• doe I willinglye abide the censures of the learned.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Fractura.
• * 1.2

  Brokē bones
• * 1.3

  Thre causes which 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Chi∣rurgien to o∣pen a broken bone before the ordinarye tyme. ••