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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An excellente Diachilon.

VUhiche resolueth coulde maters, and mollifieth harde maters.

  • Rec. Lithargirii minutissimè triti, libram vnam▪
  • Olei.
    • Chamaemelini.
    • Anethini.
    • Liliacei.
    • Yrmi, ana drachmas .viii.
  • Mucaginis.
    • Altheae.
    • Seminis Lini.
    • Foenograeci.
  • ...

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  • Ficuum siccatarum.
  • Passularum enucleatarum.
  • Succi yreos.
  • Succi Scillae
  • Oesypi.
  • Collae de corio, ana drach duodecm.
  • Terebinthinae, vncias tres.
  • Resinae Albae.
  • Cerae Citrinae, ana vncias duas.

Let all these be boyled together, till the substance incor∣porate, become harder then an Unguente, and softer then an Emplaster.

Yet it is to be noted, that sometimes, althoughe by re∣soluynge the mater, it be also deminyshed: the residue ne∣uerthelesse, is ouer muche indurate. And then thou muste mollifye it, whyche thou mayste very well doe, by washinge the member lightlye and softlye, cum Aqua calida, vntyll it waxe redde, and after by anoyntinge it wyth an Unguene made, ex Olei Veteris, partibus quatuor, & Cerae par∣te Vna.

An other Resolutiue, verye profitable for thys purpose, whyche mollifieth Scrophules and Glandules, and prepa∣reth them to resolution, made thus.

  • Rec. Olei veteris, libras duas.

And put it in a glasse cum radicibus Altheae, & Cucumers ∣sinini mundatis, ana Vnciam Vnam. and putte the Glasse, wth the Oyle and rootes, in an other vessell of Water, suffe∣rynge 〈1+ pages missing〉〈1+ pages missing〉

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sinewes, &c. It purgeth with hony, drye vlcers, and filleth them: so doth it also fistules, and hollowe vlcers.

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