CHAP. XVIII. Of drawing forth Arrowes.
YOu must in drawing forth Arrowes shun incisions and dilacerations of Veines and Arteries, Nerves and Tendons. For it is a shamefull and * 1.1 bungling part to doe more harme with your hand, than the Iron hath done. Now Arrowes are drawne forth two wayes, that is, either by extraction, or impulsion. Now you must presently at the first dressing pull forth all strange bodies, which that you may more easily and happily performe, you shall set the Patient in the same posture, as hee stood when he received his wound; and hee must also have his Instruments in a readinesse, chiefely that which hath a slit pipe and toothed without, into which there is put a sharpe iron style, like the Gimblets we formerly mentioned for the taking forth of Bullets; but that it hath no scrue at the end, but is larger and thicker, so to widen the pipe, that so widened it may fill up the hole of the Arrowes head where into the shaft was put, and so bring it forth with it, both out of the fleshy as also out of the bony parts, if so bee that the end of the shaft be not broken, and left in the hole of the head. That also is a fit Instrument for this purpose, which opens the other end toothed on the outside, by pressing to∣gether of the handle. You shall finde the Iron or head that lies hid by these signes, there will be a certaine roughnesse and inequalitie observable on that part if you feele it up and downe with your hand; the flesh there will be bruised, livid, or blacke, and there is heavinesse and paine felt by the patient both there and in the wound.