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. ii. Chapiter.

❧Of the yarde, and the coddes, and of the matrix.

VNder or betwene the lower partes of these bones, is placed the yarde or instrument of generation: which the grecians call Caulon,* 1.1 the latines Caulem, Virgam & penem: and consysteth in substance, partlye of ligamentes, (namely. ii. and they holowe eche waye, as it were all one thinge: suche as else where are not founde. These being re∣plete wyth spirites, doe erecte the yarde, wyth the helpe of two muscles lyinge to the sides of the same.) Partlye of no∣table veynes and arteryes, commynge from the greate ves∣selles aboute Os amplum: and of synewes that sprynge from the common stocke of suche as descend to the mouing of the inferior partes. The head or extreme ende wherof, is thou∣ghte to be pure and symple fleshe,* 1.2 and is called in greke Ba∣lams, in latine Glans, beinge couered wyth a double skin na∣med Posthe & Praeputium: To the end y^t the sayd fleshye heade maye be preserued from hurte: and also, that by rubbynge vp and downe,* 1.3 or forewarde and backward of the skin, vp∣on the heade of the yarde, there be prouoked and styrred, the greater, and more aboundante appetite, in the acte of gene∣ration. And that by suche rubbynge, and mouynge of the

skyn, vppon the heade of the yarde: the seede by the swel∣lynge of the same, maye be the more aptlye, and better cast out, into the vesselles of generation in women, in tyme of the sayde acte.

Farthermore from the Syphach goe downe two pipes, the lower partes wherof be made,* 1.4 and becommeth there a dou∣ble bagged pannicle or skin in the codde, conteyninge the stones: and is therfore called Didymos. Whych stones or te∣sticies, called in Greeke Orchees. in Latine Testes, are of sub∣stance saythe Galen, holowe, lose, fleshy, and softe: Whose firste coueryng is white, and bloudlesse, called Dartos. Un∣der the whyche as some wryte, is an other tender whyte tunicle or couering, whiche they call Erythroeida. Whervn∣to belonge sundry vessels, of substance (for the most parte) harde,* 1.5 thicke, and stronge: As some to bring bloude and spi∣rit, from Venacaua & Arteria maxima, to the testicles, and cal∣led therfore Vasa semen adferentia, and also Praeparantia: because they doe not a little alter suche bloude as they brynge, and prepare the same.* 1.6 But yet worke they it not to perfectyon, for so shoulde the testicles be depriued of theyr office, of in genderinge sperme: for the whiche errore Galen reproueth Aristotle.* 1.7 Whiche vesselles as they enter the substance of the stones, doe passe throughe a manifest glandule, cleuing to the vpper parte of eche stone: whyche helpeth muche the preparatiue facultye, and is called Epididymis, and of some also Didymos.* 1.8

Other vesselles also there are to the stones belongynge, called Vasasemen deferentia, (or rather Eiaculatoria,) that carry the sede (nowe labored) to the yarde, and there and thence, throughe the vrine passage out of the same. &c. Leaste anye man shoulde iudge two passages to belonge to the same:* 1.9 one for sperme, and an other for vrine. Yet are there not∣withstandyng two holowe ligamentes, (and they not with oute deuisyons,) whyche by receiuinge spirite into them selues, doe erecte the yarde, as before.

Ouer those pipes or conduictes, (comminge from Perito∣nio,)

and also the stones is appoynted the vttermoste skyn,* 1.10 or purse of the testicles, called in Greeke Oscheon, in Latyne Mentula & Scrotum. And in women in steade of the yarde, is the necke of the Matrix, called Ceruig Vteri, whose porte or entrance is called Vulua. Whyche is made of a stretchyng synewye substance: That it maye conuententlye stretche in the tyme of childe bearinge, as nede requireth.

And it hathe inwardlye therewyth,* 1.11 (as a manne hathe outwardlye) two testicles or stones. Neuerthelesse, they be smaller, flatte, and rounde, in forme of an Almonde: and the necke of it in comparison to the testicles or coddes, is of the forme and shape of a mannes yarde, as it were turned inwarde. And the heade of thys necke, in the tyme of castynge forthe of the seede toucheth theese testi∣cles, & moueth them to cast forth theyr seede the better, into the holownesse of the matrix. And next after this necke in∣wardly is the matrix it selfe, or the wombe, called in greke Metra,* 1.12 and in Latine Vterus: whyche is the fielde of genera∣tion of mankinde, and is placed betwene the gutte Longaon, and the bladder: and is much lyke the bladder in forme, and inwardlye (as some will,) lyke a paynted hearte. Of com∣pounde substance: as sinewye, veinye, and of arteries. The rest of the makynge wyth the offices and propreties wher¦of (: as in Coitu, and conception, the growing of sperme into Embrio, and of Embrio to a lyuinge creature, of delyuerance or byrthe, the issuinge of the secundine, abortion and the cau∣ses therof, wyth also all their circumstances: as the varte∣tye of vayne opynyons aboute the number of celles in the wombe, the openynge and closinge of the same, the course of menstruous termes: Wyth also the consection and ta∣kinge oute of a lyuinge chylde, from a deade woman, or a deade childe from a liuing woman:) I here willingly omyt as thyngs only appertaining to the wise, discrete, and lear∣ned: who are wel able to seke the same, in suche learned au∣thores, as haue largelye and plainelye wrytten thereof:

and I will procede orderlye, to the bones and muscles of these partes. Notwithstandinge note this, that the fleshe and skynnes of these partes, are to be delte wythall to chi∣rurgerye, as is to be done with the yarde, the coddes, and the partes to them nyghe adiacente.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Caulis. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. Virga••iri•••• Penis.
• * 1.2

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. a similitudine eius, ideoque latine Glans.
• * 1.3

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. i. Prae∣putium aliqu••∣ti••ns que ipsa Virga.
• * 1.4

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Geminus, at hic paniculus duplici sinu te¦stes continēs. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. i. Tes∣tis siue Testi∣culus.
• * 1.5

  De Vsit pars tium. li. 14. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.6

  i. Tunica dēsa testes tegens 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.7

  i. Tunica te∣m••is, testes in∣terne tegens. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.8

  i. Semen geni∣tale siue prole ficum. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• * 1.9

  i. non nullis te¦stium muolu∣crum, at Gale∣no Glandula quaedam est, utrique testi adnata.
• * 1.10

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. i. 〈…〉〈…〉 at hic 〈…〉〈…〉.
• * 1.11

  V••l••••s.
• * 1.12

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Vte¦rus siue ma∣trix.