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.

Of the fat••▪ The .x. Chapiter.

TEnthlye the fatte called Pimele,* 1.1 and in latyne Seuu••, is a symple member, but not Spermatike. And three kyndes of fatnesses are founde in the body: namelye Pinguedo,* 1.2 Aleps and Axungia. That whiche is called in latine Pinguedo is made of a subtill portion of the bloude, beynge congeyled together by the coldnesse of the outwarde par∣tes, and it is of complexion colde and moiste, Insensible, and intermedled betwene the skyn and the fleshe.* 1.3 A••eps dyf∣fereth

not muche from Pi••guedine, sauynge that it is depar∣ted from the fleshe,* 1.4 and is muche lyke vnto a fatty oyle, be∣inge poured or spreade oute, amonge the synewye or thinne skinnye partes: that theyr drinesse mighte alwayes be moi∣sted, wyth suche naturall lyquor, or fatnesse. And this Adeps is ingendered, oute of the fatter partes of the bloude in Ve∣na porta, and spredde forthe by thin and small vaines, whych as it approcheth to the colde and drye partes, congeyleth to such a thicke substance.* 1.5 For the proofe wherof as wel those persons, whose bodyes are cold and Phlegmatike, as those places that are in bothe, moste cold and temperate, (by their distance from the liuer:) haue more quantity of fatte, then suche as are of hotter complexion, or the nygher to the ly∣uer: as wytnesseth Galen, in libro. 16. de Vsu partium, ac in li∣bro. 1. de tempera nentis. Muche lyke vnto thys is Seuum, which yet is somewhat thicker.* 1.6 Axungia whiche the Grekes calle Oxyngion is of the kynde of,* 1.7 Pinguedo sauinge onlye that it is outwardlye departed from the fleshe, where it moysteneth the drye partes, by reason of his vnctiousnesse, as dothe A∣deps in the partes aboue specifyed.

Notes

• * 1.1

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.2

  Pinguedo.
• * 1.3

  Adeps.
• * 1.4

  The vse of Fatte.
• * 1.5

  Fatte is in quā••t••, more or lesse accor∣dyng to com∣plexion and place.
• * 1.6

  Axungia.
• * 1.7

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Adeps.