The whole course of chirurgerie wherein is briefly set downe the causes, signes, prognostications & curations of all sorts of tumors, wounds, vlcers, fractures, dislocations & all other diseases, vsually practiced by chirurgions, according to the opinion of all our auncient doctours in chirurgerie. Compiled by Peter Lowe Scotchman, Arellian, Doctor in the Facultie of Chirurgerie in Paris, and chirurgian ordinarie to the most victorious and christian King of Fraunce and Nauarre. Whereunto is annexed the presages of diuine Hippocrates.

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The whole course of chirurgerie wherein is briefly set downe the causes, signes, prognostications & curations of all sorts of tumors, wounds, vlcers, fractures, dislocations & all other diseases, vsually practiced by chirurgions, according to the opinion of all our auncient doctours in chirurgerie. Compiled by Peter Lowe Scotchman, Arellian, Doctor in the Facultie of Chirurgerie in Paris, and chirurgian ordinarie to the most victorious and christian King of Fraunce and Nauarre. Whereunto is annexed the presages of diuine Hippocrates.
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Lowe, Peter, ca. 1550-ca. 1612.
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London :: Printed by Thomas Purfoot,
1597.
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Surgery -- Early works to 1800.
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"The whole course of chirurgerie wherein is briefly set downe the causes, signes, prognostications & curations of all sorts of tumors, wounds, vlcers, fractures, dislocations & all other diseases, vsually practiced by chirurgions, according to the opinion of all our auncient doctours in chirurgerie. Compiled by Peter Lowe Scotchman, Arellian, Doctor in the Facultie of Chirurgerie in Paris, and chirurgian ordinarie to the most victorious and christian King of Fraunce and Nauarre. Whereunto is annexed the presages of diuine Hippocrates." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06400.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.

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The eight Chapter, of Vertues.

CO.

What call you Vertues?

LO.

They are the cause whereof proceedeth the actions or powers as sayth Galen.

CO.

Howe many vertues or faculties are there.

LO.

Three, to witte, animall, vitall, and naturall, and those vertues haue a certayne simpathie one with another, for if one be hurt, all the rest suffer with it.

CO

What is animall vertue?

LO.

It is that which commeth from the braines, and sendeth the sense and moouing through all the bodye by the nerues.

CO.

How many sortes of vertues animalles

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are there?

LO.

Three, to witte, motiue, sensitiue and principall.

CO.

Wherein consisteth the vertue motiue.

LO.

In the instrumentes that moue voluntarily, as the muscles and nerues.

CO.

Wherein consisteth the vertue sensitiue.

LO.

In the senses externe & interne.

CO.

Into how many is the vertue sensitiue externe deuided.

LO.

In∣to fiue, seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, feeling.

CO.

What is the vertue sensitiue interior.

LO.

It is a vertue that cor∣respondeth to the fiue externall vertues, by one organe onely, and therefore is called sense common.

CO.

Wherein con∣sisteth the vertue principall.

LO.

In imagination, reaso∣ning and remembring

CO.

May these three vertues be de∣uided seuerally one from another.

LO.

Yes, because one may be offended without another, which sheweth them to haue diuers seates in the braines particularly.

CO.

What is the vertue vitall.

LO.

It is that, which carrieth life through all the bodie.

CO.

How many sorts of vitall ver∣tues are there?

LO.

Two, to witte, vertue vitall actiue, that is in doing operations, and vertue vitall passiue, in suffering operations.

CO,

What is the vertue actiue?

LO.

They are those vertues which dilateth the heart, and arters, as chaunceth in mirth and loue.

CO.

What is vertue passiue?

LO.

They are those vertues, which constraineth and bin∣deth the heart and arters, as happeneth in melancholie, sad∣nesse and reuenge.

CO.

What is the vertue naturall?

LO.

It is that which commeth from the lyuer, and sendeth the nourishment throughout all the body.

CO.

Into how many is it deuided.

LO.

Into foure, the first in attracti∣on of thinges proper, the second in retayning that, which is drawne: the thirde, in digesting that, which is retayned: the fourth, in expelling that, which is hurtfull and offendeth.

CO.

Doe all these foure vertues their operations at once.

LO,

No: for first attraction is made, then retayned vntill perfect digestion be made, lastly vertue expulsiue, casteth forth all thinges hurtfull to nature.

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