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 14, 2025.

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Formica.

OF this tumore called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,* 1.1 Aulce••••a, (of whome Lanfranke semeth to take his definition therof,)* 1.2 saythe▪ it is a pustule, that commeth out, and causeth a pure aposteme, and is ambolatyue, Whiche per∣happes

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vlcerateth, or els wyll be resolued: hauynge a sub∣stance,* 1.3 rounde lyke a lyttle warte, inflamed, and of coloure somwhat citrine. But Galen (rekening it with Veruca, A∣crochordine, and other lyke affectes of the (kinne,) teacheth how with a holowe quille to plucke it out. Affirming also, that some men at Rome in his tyme, vsed to byte them a∣way with their teeth. Neyther of the which wayes, can in any wyse be mete for pure apostemes, eyther vlcerated, or apte to be resolued.

Of the lytle Ante or pismire,* 1.4 called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 doth this tu∣mor take his name, both in Greke and Latin. Of whose egges Lanfranke maketh an oyle, whose vse and vtilitie: there may you fynde.

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