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.

Aloe.

ALo•• is commonly numbered (amōg wryters) of two kyndes only, although ther be found amonge the A∣pothecaries in cōmon practice thre sortes to be sold: namely, Succotrina, Hepatica, & Cabalina. But who so readeth Dioscoridem, and other auncient wryters, shall perceiue that they knewe but of two sortes, as one fyne and pure, which some calle Aloen Hepaticam. The other, whiche (because it is full of drosse and sande) semeth to be the bothome or refuse of the pure iuyce, they name Aloen Cabalinan, because (as I suppose) it not beinge mete for man his bodye, was only v∣sed to heale the diseases of horses. But of y^t purest I iudge there is none other difference, but that the same whyche one author calleth Hepaticam, another calleth Succotrinam, whiche also moued Iacobus Syluius to reporte that Dioscorides and Haliabbas praise Aloen Hepaticam: but Auicenna and Mesues Aloen Succotrinam. It is the iuyce of an herb, called in Greke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: and in Latine semper Viuum Marinum: In English herbe Aloes, or sea Aigren: whose iuice is brought to vs frō Indi•• (for ther groweth the best,) is a proffitable medicin for ma∣ny thinges, through the drying that it hathe, wythout cor∣rosion. It bindeth moderatlye, but is verye bitter, and ther¦fore loseth the belly. It drieth in the thirde degre, & heateth stronglye in the first, or lightlye in the second: and is grate∣full to the stomacke. It glueth together holowe places, and healeth vlcers harde to be cured: Maxime quae in ano & puden∣dis simt, and stieped in water, healpeth the inflammatyons in them, and also in the mouthe and Eyes. In summe▪

Of the fluxe of Bloud. Cap. v.

IF the fluxe of bloud, issuing from a veine or arterie, do let thee in obseruing this ordinaunce, thou mayste re∣streigne it thus. Rec. thuris partes duas alo••s pa••te Vnam, and make it into poulder, and meddle all together, cum albumine oui, to the thicknesse of hony, & pilos leporis, cutte as small as maye be possible, and so temper all together, and put thy finger in the place from whence the bloude issueth, and touche the pulse, holdinge it so the space of an houre, administring thy medicine in great quantity, and in the time of chaunginge, haue good foresight, that thou take it not away by violence. But if it cleaue faste to the place, lay on more of the saide medicine in a more liquide forme, vpō the olde medicine, till it falle frō the wounde alone without violence, & then shalle the veines and ar∣teries be knit and healed, and to this medicine there is none like in restreigning of bloud, & knitting the veine.

Of woundes, with breaking of the bone wythin the Fleshe. Cap. Vi.

VUhen with a wounde in the Fleshe, there is also a wound in y^t bone, it behoueth not to heale y^t woūde of the flesh, before the Restauration of the bone, I saye Restauration, because the bone is neuer consounded with a true Consolidation: but in steade therof, groweth a hard Callouse substance of fleshe, called Porus Sarcoides, or Caro Poroides, seruing in place of y^e bone lacking, which reparation must be loked for, before the wounde in the fleshe be healed, for otherwise there may be no reparati∣on. because the moistnesse of the fleshe will let it. For so much as there can be no reparation, vnlesse the place be dried to the vttermooste: For the bones are moost drye, and the nourishmente of bones, is the matter reparinge

them, whiche is naturallye drye: for to nurishe is none other thinge, but to assimulate nurishmente wyth that whiche is nurished. Wherfore Nutrition is done by the like, as Diminution is done by the contrarye.

And nowe for as muche as of all woundes of bones, those of the heade are moste perillous: I thinke it moste meete to begin firste with them, for if the wounde in the head where cranion or the braine panne is broken, shoulde be healed in the fleshe before the bones be repared, it would surelye cause deathe: bothe by reason of y^e braines Dilicasie, and noblenesse, and also that worse accidentes folowe thereof, then of the breakinge of any other bone.

Of the wounde in the heade, with breakinge of Cranion. Chapi. Vii.

VUhen the wounde is made in the heade with brea∣kinge of the Sculle: consider whether it be broken vnto the inward partes or no, that is to saye to duram matrem: whiche thou maiste knowe by diuers meanes and waies, partelye by perseuerance, and partlye by infalli∣ble experimentes, the signes be these. The feelinge of great paine, vomiting, teares of the eies, crokednesse of the sighte, inflammation or rowlinge of the eies. &c. the expe∣rimentes are these: take a strong threde double twisted, and wereit, and let the patiente holde it stronglye in his teethe, and begin thou at the mouthe of him, and with thy nailes stretche and streigne oute the threde, til thou come at the other ende of the same, holding it streight a cubite lengthe from the tethe, and make a sounde vpon the threde with thy nayle, and doe so often times. If the pattente maye susteine the sounde, withoute feelynge of peine, then is not the sculle broken to the Dura mater. for if it be broken, he maye in no wise susteine nor suffer the harping of the nayles vpon the threde, or else thou mayst also take and smyte hys head, with a smalle dry wand of 〈1+ pages missing〉〈1+ pages missing〉

moniacon, of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, whiche is sande. This shrubbe, wyth hys roote and frute, is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Galen saythe, that Hammoniacum in mollyfyinge obteineth the principalitye, and digesteth meanlye.

Notes

• Aloe Succotri¦na.
• Aloe Hepati∣ca.
• Aloe Cab••lina
• Galenus, de sym. med. li. 6
• To stanche the fluxe of Bloud.
• Restauratiō.
• Porus Sarco∣des.
• Caro poroides
• Nutrition.
• Diminution
• Woundes in the heade.
• Signs of bre¦kynge of the sculle.
• Experiment••
• Ammos.
• Agasyllis de cōpositione med. secun. ge¦nerali. 6.