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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Title: 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.
Author: Lanfranco, of Milan, 13th cent.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: In Flete streate, nyghe unto saint Dunstones churche, by Thomas Marshe,; An. 1565.
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Pruna.

AVicenna. lib. 4. Fen. 3. tract. 1. describeth Prunam,* 1.1 and Ignem persicum, bothe in one chapiter, not without some confusion of the one with the other, and bothe with Formica. First estemyng both the names, to serue for euery blysteryng, corrosiue, and eschare makynge pustule. And a little after he sayeth, that Pruna is that, whiche maketh the place blacke as a cole, without moisture, hauynge a small eminence lyke a lupine, somtyme with a pustule and som∣tyme not: hauyng itche ouer all. And somtyme dothe Ignis persicus or Pruna, more larglye blyster, and purge suche a quitture, as a place burned or cautrized doth. The place be∣ing ashe coloured, blacke, or leady, and compassed aboute with a vehement inflammation without perfecte rednes. And agayne, Ignis persicus is the more sharpe, and of the swyster apparition, and motion: Pruna the slower, and lying deper. The beginnyng of both is of burned choler myxed with melancholie, (and therof commeth the blacke eschare in both.) Ignis persicus consisting of the vehementer choler, and Pruna of the myghtier melancholye. It they chaunce in the fleshe, they are the soner resolued: but if in the sinewes, they sticke the faster, and resolue the slowlyer. Thus farre Auicen. And yet confessyng after, that the name of eyther, may be geuen to both: and affirmeth them often to come of a pestilentiall feuer.

Nowe Pruna and Carbunculus, in the qualitie of names as you see differ not: and howe muche their efficient causes, signes, and propreties doe varie: After these descriptions therof, by comparing them together, it is easy to see.

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* 1.1

Ignis persicus.

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