The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latine and compared with the French. by Th: Johnson

SELECT APHORISMES CONCERNING CHIRVRGE∣rie, collected out of the Aphorismes of the great Hippocrates.

• Aph. 27. sect. 6. VVHosoever being suppurate or hydropicall, are burnt, or cut therefore, if all the matter, or water flow forth at once, they certainely dye.
• 31. 6. The drinking of wine, or a bath, fomentation, blood-letting, or purging, helpe the paines of the eyes.
• 38. 6. Such as have hidden, or not ulcerated Cancers, had better not to cure them. For healed they quickely dye, not cured they live the longer.
• 55. 6. Gouty paines usually stirre in the Spring and Fall.
• 28. 6. Eunuches are not troubled with the Goute, neither doe they become bald.
• 49. 6. Whosoever are troubled with the Goute, have ease in forty dayes, the inflammati∣on ceasing.
• 66. 5. In great and dangerous wounds if no swelling appeare, it is ill.
• 67. 5. Soft tumors are good, but crude ones ill.
• 25. 6. For an Erysipelas, or inflammation to returne from without inwards, it is not good; but to come from within outwards, is very good.
• 19. 7. An Erysipelas comming upon the baring of a bone, is evill.
• 20. 7. Putrefaction, or suppuration comming upon an Erisipelas, is ill.
• 21. 6. If Varices or Haemorrhoides happen to such as are mad, their madnesse ceases.
• 21. 7. A fluxe of blood ensuing upon a great pulsation in Vlcers is ill.
• 26. 2. It is better that a feaver happen upon a convulsion, than a convulsion upon a feaver.
• 4. 6. Those Vlcers that have the skinne smooth or shining about them, are evill.
• 18. 6. The wound is deadly whereby the bladder, braine, heart, midriffe, any of the small Guts, stomacke or Liver are hurt.
• 45. 6. Whatsoever Vlcers are of a yeares continuance or more, the bone must necessarily scaile, and the scarres become hollow.
• 2. 7. The bone being affected, if the flesh be livide, it is ill.
• 14. 7. Stupidity and lacke of reason, upon a blow of the head, is evill.
• 24. 7. A Delirium happens if a bone (to wit, the scull) bee cut even to the hollownesse thereof.
• ...

• Whilst 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or matter is in generating, paines and feavers happen rather than when it is already made.
• 18. 5. Cold things are hurtfull to the bones, teeth, nerves, braine, spinall marrow, but hot things are good.
• 46. 2. Two paines infesting together, but not the same place, the more vehement obscures the other.
• 74. 7. A corruption and abscesse of the bone is caused by the corruption of the flesh.
• 506. Coacar praen••s. A livid or dry Vlcer, or yellowish, is deadly.
• 19. 6. When as a bone, or gristle, or nerve, or small portion of the cheeke, or the prepuce is cut as••••der, it neither encreases, nor growes together.
• 24. 6. Aph. & 513. Coacar. If any of the small guts be cut, it knits not againe.
• 50. 7. Those that have the braine sphacelate, that is, corrupt, they dye within three dayes; if they escape these, they recover.
• 9. 7. Bleeding at a wound causing a Convulsion, is the foreteller of death.
• 20. 5. Cold is biting to Vlcers, hardens the skin, causes paine, not easily comming to sup∣puration; blacknesse, aguish shakings, convulsions, erampes.
• 508. Coac. Those who have the temples cut, have a Convulsion upon the parts contrary to the section.
• 44. 7. Whosoever being suppurate are burnt or cut, if pure and white quitture shall flow forth they escape; out if that which is bloody, feculent, and stinking, then they dye.
• Galen. comment. ad Aphor. 29. 2. It is not ••it to take in hand to cure such as are in a desperate case, but to leave them, onely foretelling the end of the disease.
• Celsus, Cap. 10. Lib. 2. It is better to try a doubtfull remedy than none at all.

FINIS.