CHAP. XIX. How Arrowes broken in a wound may be drawne forth.
BVt if it chance that the weapon is so broken in the wound, that it can∣not bee taken hold on by the formerly mentioned Mullets, then must you draw, or plucke it out with your Crane, or Crowes bill, and other formerly described Instruments. But if the shaft be broken neare the head, so that you cannot take hold thereof with your Cranes bill, then * 1.1 you shall draw it forth with your Gimblet which we described before to draw forth bullets; for if such a Gimblet can be fastened in Bullets, it may farre better take hold of wood. But if the head be barbed, as usually, the English arrowes are, then if it may be conveniently done, it will be very fitting to thrust them through the parts. For if they should be drawne out the same way they went in, there would bee no small danger of breaking or tearing the Vessells and Nerves by these hooked barbes. Wherefore it is better to make a section on the other side whither the head tended, and so give it passage forth if it may bee easily done; for so the wound will bee the more easily clensed and consolidated. But on the the contrary, if the point tend to * 1.2 any bone, or have many muscles or thicke flesh against the head thereof, as it happens sometimes in the Thighes, Legges and Armes; then you must not thrust the head thorough, but rather draw it out the same way it came in, dilating the wound with fit Instruments, and by skill in Anatomie shunning the larger Nerves and Vessells. Therefore for this purpose put a hollow Dilater into the wound, and therewith take hold of both the barbes or wings of the head; and then take fast hold of the head with your Cranes-bill, and so draw them forth all three together.