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.

Schoenanthum.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,* 1.1 quasi Schoeni, uel Schini flos, It is the floure of the swete rushe called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, hoc est iuncus odo ratus. This rushe sayeth Dioscorides, must be chosen redde and newe, bearyng fyne flowres with redde fragmentes, whiche beyng rubbed in the hande smelleth lyke the rose:

and byndeth the tongue with a fyery byting. The flowres, the stalkes, and the rootes wherof, are in vse. The flowre sayeth Galen (which we handle,)* 1.2 doth heate and bynde mo∣deratly, neyther lacketh it a subtill nature: and therfore Vrinam & menses mouet, geuen in drinke, or in fomentations: and profiteth also the inflammations of the lyuer, the sto∣mache, and the belly. But the roote is more adstringente, (though the flowre also doe bynde with all his partes:) and therfore is myxed with medicines that are geuen for spyt∣ting of bloud. Hitherto Galen.

And for as muche as these flowres are not now brought vnto vs, yea and in Uenice rarely sene: (wherat our mer∣ueile may be the lesse, synce Galen noteth thē in his time to be very rare:) The learned phisitiēs haue therfore councel∣led to vse, The tenderest or vppermost partes of the herbe or rushe. But our Apothecaries, (saye they) goynge to Ue∣nise, are deceyued in Iunco odorato: & buye eyther in the steade therof, or mixed therwith, certeyne tender strigges of Iunci•• palustris, that is the marshe rushe, or rushe of the fennes.

It is commonly called Pastum uel palca Camellorum, or Ca∣melles strawe.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Schoen••••th•••• Schoenos aro∣maticos. Lib. 1.
• * 1.2

  Galen. de sym. lib. 8.