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.

Thinges to bee considered after the veine is opened.

OFtentimes chanceth after the veine is wel opened, that the blood commeth well forth and afterwards suddē∣ly doth cease, hapneth through too straight ligature saith Auerrois, or else for an apprehēsion & somtime through wrong & euill situatiō of the arme, in these points ye must slack the ligature, comfort the party & situat the arme right somtime the cause is in the thicknes & grossnes of the blod for the which rub the place incised with a litle oyle. If the party be weake, which shalbe knowne by the chang∣ing his coulor and the blood running alongst the arme, in this yee shall loose the legature, close the wound, lay the sick on his back, cast water in his face & vineger to

smell to giue him a little wine, within a while after loose the band and let him blede, till yee haue got such quanti∣tie of blood, as shal bee requisite, stirre not nor labour thy arme that carrie it in figure triangulare sleepe not two ho∣wers after. Let the blood stand, to know the nature of it, for in our bodie, there are diuers sorts very vatiable, accor∣dinh to the diuersitie of the age, the complexion, country, kinde of the sicknes and partes of the bodie.* 1.1 Wee shall iudge the nature and qualitie of the blood three waies, first by coulor, by the tast, and substance. As for the color good naturall blood should be red, sweete as phlegme naturall, and me••ne substance, when it congealeth not, it is a signe that some of the other humors are with it, when it is redde cleare and gluttering, it signifieth abundāce of choller, whē it is blackish, abundance of melancholy naturall or adust which stoppeth it to congeale, the fatnes of the blood kee∣peth it also from congealing.

Notes

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  Arist. lib. 2. de partis anmal. cap. 4. Gal. lib. de atra bile et de simp. med.