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.

Massacunia.

MAssacunia, (for so fynde I it wrytten in the prynted la∣tin copy, and interpreted the fylinge or scarpynge of earthen pottes glased,) is written of Almanzoar (who for Al∣bula in oculo, maketh the same recept) Masacuma, and Pandacta∣rius wryteth it Massicuma: Who sayeth it is a coloure wher∣with earthen vessels are nealed, and called also of them Pe∣tanum. Shewyng moreouer the opinion of diuers, as that some saye it is the water of glasen vesselles, and others that it is glasse not perfectly boiled, and is the mater wher¦of glasse is made, and vulgarly called Massacocta, &c. Whose vertues, because the mater is vncerteyne, and the autori∣ties scant probable, (for in Galen, Dioscorides, and other auncientes I fynde it not) I leaue to silence.