CHAP. II. Of the causes of Wounds.
ALL things which may outwardly assayle the body with force and violence, may be counted the causes of wounds; which are called greene, and pro∣perly * 1.1 bloody. These things are either animate, or inanimate. The ani∣mate, as the bitings, and prickings of beasts. The Inanimate, as the stroake of an arrow, sword, clubb, gunne, stone, a dagger, and all such like things.
From the variety of such like causes, they have divers names: for those which are made by sharpe and pricking things are called punctures: those caused by cut∣ting things, are called wounds or gashes: and those which are made by heavy and obtuse things are named Contusions, or wounds with Contusions.