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 10, 2024.
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Oleum.
OYle which the Grecians cal 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,* 1.1 is the iuice of O∣lyues
named Oliuae, whiche are the frutes of the tree,
Olea in greke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,* 1.2 cōsisting of .iii. substāces (as doth
mylke,) as of grosse dregges, called Amurca, of an aery essen∣ce,
& of a whayey substance. Oyle is of temperamēt meane
as it weare, betwene whotte and colde drye and moyste:
yet doth it rather inclyne to heate and moisture. But from
this meane may it three wayes varie, as firste Omphacinum
(made of vnripe Oliues) is somwhat colde and adstringent:
as the oyle of through rype olyues (whiche they cal Drupas)
doth moderatly heate and moyste.* 1.3 Secondly newe oyle is
by comparation colde: so swete oyle kept vntyl it be olde,
is whotte and euaporatyue. Thirdly it doth moste aptly or
redely receyue the qualities, of what so euer by arte 〈…〉〈…〉
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with composed: be they whotte or colde, &c. And therfore
sayeth Galen,* 1.4 is it worthily accompted, the matter of all
other medicines.
It moueth the belly: and the reddyshe wheye, beyng ta∣ken
away (as by washynge or els howsoeuer) the reste is
made whyter, and without byting. The vnctiōs therwith
are rather to be vsed to whole bodies thē vnto plethorikes,
or to men possessed with rawe humores.