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.

The three and twentith Chapter, of hernes in generall, which happen in the flanck and Codds.

AS in diuers partes of the bodie happen diners sick∣nesses, so in these partes come 8. sortes of diseases cōmonly called ruptures or hernes and are deuided into fiue propers and three cōmons, the first of the propers is called Bubonocele or hernia in completa, that is when it remayneth in the flanck, the second is called ••nterocele or hernia intestinalis that is when the intestine falleth into the codds, the third is called Epiploceli or her••ia Zirbalis, when the caule fall in the codds. The first of the cōmons is called Hydrocelae or hernia aquosa, which is a watery hu∣mor in the codds, the second is called Physocele, or her••ia ventosa, which is a winde in the codds, the third is called Sarcocele, or hernia carnosa, which is a scirrous or fleshie substance in the cod, the fourth is called Cirsoceli, or her∣nia varicosa which is when the veines, that nourishe the stones, are dilated and full of melancholicke bloode, the fift is called hernia hum••••alis, which is when any defluxion of humors falle••h in the coddes, of all which ye shal heare hereaftet in there seuerall Chapters, beginning first with B••bonocele.