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.

Of Arteriotemie or in incision of the Arter.

LIke as for diuers maladies we blud the veines, so we do in some arters. Arteriotomia is a detractiō of blood by the diuisiō of the arter, which was not vsed by our auntiēts saue onely Menodotus, but is greatly in vse now, chiefly those in the tēples & behind the eares, for great fluxion of of catarrs on the eies, brest, & maladies of the head ingē∣dred of a hot fluxion inueterated, & vaparous spirrits, as are cōtained in these arters. In opening them, first I shaue the haire & rub the part the necke with a napkin as the veine, making a little incision in the bodye of the arter, as in the veine, not cutting it altogether, draw such quātity of blod, as is needefull, then stay it, and put on the wound an em∣plastrum of mastick, or halfe a beane clouen, with a com∣presse & bandage. Some feare this kind, for that the blood is ill to stay and also for an Aneufrisme, it is good in long dolors of the side, & all dolors, that procede frō a hot pitu∣itous substāce, also for swining giddines & long defluxion on the eyes.

Notes

• Caelicis.
• Gal lib. 1. chro. Paul. lib. 6.