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

RVLES OF CHIRVRGERY BY THE AVTHOR.

• 1 PRactise is an operation agreeable to the rules and lawes of the Theory.
• 2 Health is not received by words, but by remedies fitly used.
• 3 Remedies knowne and approved by use and reason, are to be preferred before such as are unknowne, or but lately found out.
• 4 Science without experience gets the Phy∣sition no great credit with the patient.
• 5 Hee that would performe any great and notable worke, must diligently apply himselfe to the knowledge of his subject.
• 6 It is the part of a good Physition to heale the disease, or certainly to bring it to a better passe, as nature shall give leave.
• 7 The Chirurgion must be active, industri∣ous, and well handed, and not trust too much to bookes.
• 8 He that hath not beene versed in the ope∣rations of the Art, nor a frequent audi∣tor of the Lectures of such as are lear∣ned therein, and sets forth himselfe for a brave Chirurgion for that hee hath read much, he is either much deceived or impudent.
• 9 He shall never doe any thing praise-wor∣thy, that hath got his mastery in Chi∣rurgery by gold, not by use.
• 10 You shall comfort the patient with hope of recovery, even when as there is dan∣ger of death.
• 11 To change Physitions and Chirurgions is troublesome, but not good for the Pa∣tient.
• 12 Though the disease prove long, yet it is not fit that the Physition give over the patient.
• 13 Great wounds of large vessells, are to be judged deadly.
• 14 Every contusion must be brought to sup∣puration.
• 15 As the nature or kind of the disease must bee knowne, so also must the re∣medy.
• 16 An Abscesse of the bone of the pallate, is in danger to cause a stinking breath.
• 17 Bleeding caused by heate must be represt by cold.
• 18 Wounds of nervous parts require medi∣cines which by the subtlety of the parts may enter in and draw from farre.
• 19 It is not fit for such as have Vlcers in their Legges, neither to walke, stand nor sit, but to rest themselves in bed.
• 20 All biting and acrid medicines are offen∣sive to cleane Vlcers.
• 21 For restoring of dislocations you must hold them fast, stretch them out, and force them in.
• 22 A great Gangreene admits no cure, but cutting.
• 23 A monster is a thing dissenting from the lawes of nature.
• 24 Wounds of the Chest presently become sanious and purulent.
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• 25 The wounds made by all venemous crea∣tures are dangerous.
• 26 The south wind blowing, wounded mem∣bers easily become mortifyed.
• 27 Such as are wounded, and desire to bee quickly whole, must keepe a spare diet.
• 28 Vntemperate bodies doe not easily reco∣ver of diseases.
• 29 Round Vlcers unlesse they be drawne into another figure, doe not easily heale up.
• 30 An Erysipelatous Vlcer requires purga∣tion by stoole.
• 31 Crying is good for an infant, for it serves in stead of exercise and evacuation.
• 32 Greefe is good for none but such as are very fat.
• 33 Idlenesse wealens and extinguisheth the native heate.
• 34 An ill natured Vlcer yeelds not unlesse to a powerfull remedy.
• 35 A bath resolves and discusses humors, and gently procures sweate.
• 36 Cold diseases are troublesome to old people, and hard to be helped; but in young bodies they are neither so trou∣blesome, nor contumacious.
• 37 Exercised bodies are lesse subject to di∣seases.
• 38 Moist bodies though they neede small nourishment, yet stand they in neede of large evacuation.
• 39 Sicke people dye sooner of an hot distem∣per than of a cold, by reason of the quicke and active operation of fire.
• 40 The quitture that flowes from an Vlcer is laudible, which is white, smooth and equall.