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.

The. i. Chapiter.

¶Of the region of the bellye, and the pannycles of the same, and the bones of that parte.

THe third ventricle is the belly, called in latine Venter,* 1.1 which albeit that we here recite last, is y^e firste pece of worke, to be begun in order of di••ection of the bodye, least otherwise putrefaction hinder the whole worke. It be∣ginneth at the lowest ribbes, and endeth in the grindes and share, and this whole circuit is verye lose and softe.

First then vpon all the rest is the vtter skin, cōmon to all the bodye. In the whiche aboute or very nere the middes of the bellye, is seene as it were a little rounde py••te or hole:

whiche is an ornamente not vnsemelye to that parte, com∣monlye called in Englishe the nauell,* 1.2 in greke Omphalos, in latine Vmbilicus.* 1.3 From whiche a certaine holow tying, like in forme to a gutte, procedeth: infestinge it selfe in the ho∣lowe syde of the lyuer. The offyce whereof was in the mo∣thers wombe, to bringe bothe bloude and spirite from the mother, to the liuer of the childe, and so from the liuer to all the members of the bodye: and also to expel (after digestion) the superfluous iuyce, whiche after the birthe is the vrine, and passeth by the yarde: and afterwardes the nauell hathe no office that we reade of in Anatomye.

Nexte vnder the skin of the belly is ordeined fatnesse, and also vnder that fatnesse. viii. muscles, whych accorde to the necessitye of that place: the makynge and office wherof we wil anon declare. And note that all this whole substance of muscles, fatnesse, and the skin together, vpon the regyon of the bellye, is called of the Arabians Myrach, of the Grekes Epigastrion,* 1.4 and of the Latines Abdomen, de Abdendo, that is of coueringe: because it couereth and closelye hideth, all the entraels. Wherin by the waye their errore is to be noted, that take Myrach to be a symple and particulare pannicle, wheras in dede noe suche pannicle as they imagine, can be founde by Anatomye. And farther Galen councelleth, that in all woundes of the bellye, wherin Siphach* 1.5 is cutte: that in stitchinge of the wounde, we shoulde sewe or take holde (in the stitchynge) of Syphach wyth Myrach: whiche councell can stande wyth no reason, if Myrach be anye other wyse to be vnderstanded then as I haue sayde before.

And vnder••••••ese muscles in the forepart,* 1.6 is ordeyned an other skyn or pānycle,* 1.7 (vnder the whych is the calle, which is called in Greke Epiploon, in latine Omentum, or barbarous∣lye zirbus adipinus, and also the guttes, vnto the testycles & coddes. And this pannicle or skin, is called Siphach or Perito∣naeum:* 1.8 of the breakinge of which Siphac, it happeneth that zirbus and the guttes fall out into the codde.* 1.9 But sometyme of the sayde goynge oute of zirbus and the guttes, there fal∣leth onlye a swellynge in the flanke: and then may the chi∣rurgien

knowe, that the rupture or breakinge of Siphac, is not great. Which may lightly be holpen wyth emplasters, conuenyente and restynge, by lyinge vpon the backe, wyth vnder shorynge and proppyng of the body: as for that cause and place shall seme conuenyente.

And vnder this Siphac,* 1.10 is ordeyned the bones of y^e share, called Ossa pectinis, or Coxendices: whyche bones are made af∣ter the forme of a halfe circle or compasse: sauynge in the vpper parte towarde the nauell, they haue some going out. And in the share, the endes of them are bound and knytte wyth the hanche, and there they become sundrye: that they maye susteyne those partes wyth their hardnesse.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Venter.
• * 1.2

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.3

  i. Vmbilicus.
• * 1.4

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. i. Abdomen. Venter exteri¦or, uel sūmus Venter.
• * 1.5

  Syphac.
• * 1.6

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.7

  i. omentum uel zirbus adi pinus.
• * 1.8

  Siphac.
• * 1.9

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. i. Tu∣nica incestina circunde••s.
• * 1.10

  Ossa 〈…〉〈…〉