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 24, 2025.

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The way to applie Canters.

FIrst marke the place with thy finger or a spot of incke, next, make a little emplaister, hauing a little hole in the middest, either broad or long, as ye shall thinke good, put on the emplaister in such sort, that the marke of the incke appeare through the hole, and then applie your canter, ac∣cording to the quantitie ye would haue the issue of, and put an other emplaister aboue, and binde it, letting it remaine, till it worke the effect you require: if the first hath not gone

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deepe enough, apply another on the same after the foresaid manner, which being done take away the emplaister, and lay on the place to separate the burnt from the whole, a little oyle of roses, turpentine, butter and a little iris of Flo∣rence, or otherwise a little butter alone, or basilicon. Some after the first emplaister is taken off, cutte away that which is burnt with a Bistorie, others cutte it crosse wise, therafter put to the medicament, and it falleth easily of it selfe, being fallen, the issue must be holden open, till such time the sick∣nesse be whole,* 1.1 for the which it was made. Some to holde it open, put a great peaze or balle of golde or siluer, of the same greatnesse. I vse certaine balles, which last sixe mo∣nethes and are made thus. Take waxe onc. 3. verde greece, orpiment, and hermodactes an. onc. 2. sublimat. and pouder of cantharides an. onc. se. with a litle resn. In stead of the emplaister, I vse a certaine cloth made with certaine stuffe, which lasteth fiue or sixe monethes, likewise wiping it, and vsing sometime one side, sometimes another, and is made thus. Rec. emplstri triaformacili, se▪ cerae albae onc. 2 campho∣rae onc. 2. litargiri auri puluerizati onc. 2. spici nardi onc. 1. olei oliuaum onc. 1. se misce omnia simul: thereafter dippe a cloth therein, and cutte it in peices to serue, as yee haue heard, it is good for colde humors vlcered. Sometime wee are con∣strained to continue these thinges longer, and euery yeere we place them sometime higher, lower and sidewise, that the mattir may auoide the better. Sometime they waxe hard and callous, which is consumed by such remedies as ye haue heard set downe in callous Vlcers, the excrescence of fleshe which sometime groweth, is taken away by such remedies, as ye haue heard in Vlcers.

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