A compendious chyrurgerie: gathered, & translated (especially) out of Wecker, at the request of certaine, but encreased and enlightened with certaine annotations, resolutions & supplyes, not impertinent to this treatise, nor vnprofitable to the reader: published for the benefite of all his countreymen, by Ihon Banester maister in chyrurgerie

ANNOTATIONS.

^a Or this of Paracelsus m••st excel∣lent: Rec. cerae virgineae, ol vulnera∣rij nostri (which is one of them that fol∣lowe) ana, li.j.ss, lithargyri auri, li.j. plumbi loti, li.ss. coquantur ad ce∣rati consistentiam, dein adde, bdellij•• opoponacis, in aceto praeparatorum

ana, ℥.j.ss. masticis, thuris, ana, ʒ.vj. myrrhae ℥.j. mumiae, ℥.ss. ••ernicis cum herbis parati (example whereof doeth followe) li ss. terebinthinae lotae, ℥iij. fiat emplastrum, worke it vp in rowles, your handes euer annoynted with vulnerarie oyle.

Examples of his vulnerarie oyles.

Rec olei, vel terebintinae, li.j. flo∣rum chamomillae, rosarum rub. pru∣nellae, ana, m.j. florum hyperici, m.iij. florum centaureae, chelidoniae, ana, m.ss. mixta omnia ponantur ad solem per duos menses: which per∣fourmeth great things in woundes, and that without paine. What remaineth of this oyle the yere following, may be stray∣ned from his olde flowers, and filled with newe, and set againe to digest in the Sun, so shall it become yet more excellent.

Another.

Recipe Ophioglossi, pirolae, agri∣moniae, saniculae, ana, m.j. florum hyperici, m.ij. rad. symphiti. m.ss.

vermium terrestrium mundatorum, numero 100•• olei vel terebenthinae, qs. pro maceratione omnium, sistantur ad solem, ad tempus legitimum di∣gestionis. To these you may adde mu∣mia, thus, myrrha, mastiche, but not in great quantitie. Also, in Winte••, you may put into the same oyle, the seedes of those herbes brused, and set in some hote place to digest.

Another.

Rec. ol oliuarum li.ss. terebintinae ℥.iij. florum hyperici quantum suff. ad implendum, florum verbasci ter∣tiam partem ad flores hyperici, vini albi generos. sextarium vnum & se∣mis, decoquantur ad consumptionē vini: postea ad tempus legitimum in∣solentur.

Preparation of Vernish.

Rec. Fernicis quantum videbitur, herbis & floribus antea dictis explea∣tur, & digestioni solis exponatur.

^b Paracelsus sheweth an excellent ma∣ner of making vulnerarie vnguents: an

example whereof for the Readers vse, I haue here set downe: Recipe rad. sym∣phiti, li.j. ophioglossi vel saniculae, li. j.ss. aristoloch. rec.℥••iij•• florum hype∣rici, ℥.ij. vermium terr. mund•• li. ss. Contundantur in formam pulticulae, postea affunde vini, tantum vt pa••lu∣lum supernatet: boyle them in balneo mariae for tenne houres, then strayne them, and put to mellificij apum re∣centis, vel butyri maialis, li. iij. boyle them againe, as at first, after straine them out strongly, and set it in a vessell to the Sunne, ••ill it growe to a iust consi∣stence.

^c Admit this tollerable in small and simple woundes, yet in all great woundes, I auouch it verie hurtfull. For, after nature hath wrought her woorke of one dressing, shee straight desireth riddance of the excrements, made in that businesse, and newe nourishment of medicines, for her further proceedinge: wherein if na∣ture bee not aunswered, a double dam∣mage ensueth: as losse of time to the cu∣ring, and generation of an euill quali∣tie in the wounde, by the long putrify∣ing of the matter there. And this I take occasion to note here, leste any man by

this place, shoulde confirme himselfe in an euil custome. If it bee demaunded, what time shoulde bee limitted to the or∣dinarie dressinges: I aunswere, twelue houres. Farre otherwise (I know••) is the custome of Barbours. But I write vn∣to the sonnes of arte.

Here also, a worde or two, out of Pa∣racelsus, for the manner of vsing, and applying these medicines: First, he de∣uideth the whole time of the cure into three partes, called his three ligatures. The first parte, is the first eyght or nyne d••yes, in which the wounde is thus to be followed. Powre into the wounde, some of your vulnerarie oyle, balme, or vn∣guent, warme, and fill it vp with your lintie properties, wet therein, or rather, (as hee specially approoueth) with the flowers, and simples remaining in your vulnerarie oyle, aloft then applye your plaster, and rounde about the borders of the wounde, laye the same flowers and simples, or (if you had rather) clothes wet in oxyrrhodino: dressing it so euerie twelue houres.

If the wounde bee a foyne or pricke,

iniect of the oyle or balme, into the bot∣tome. If it bee in the h••••d•• laye first a linnen cloth, or linte, dipt in your oyle, or ba••me, (but no distilled balme) into the bottome of the wounde, and fill vp the same a••••er with flowers, beeinge warie of oppressing the membrans: alofte laye ••n your playster, as aforesayde•• and bind it vp•• Let your plaister be this aboue sayde: or else the Sticticum in the an∣notations of the sixt Chapter.

The seconde ligature, which begin∣neth after those eight or nyne dayes, is thus accomplished, with a fether dipte in your balme, touche the wounde ouer, thereupon then applye your plaster: and thus continue vntill the ioyntes, nerues, or such like partes (which were bare) bee all couered with fleshe.

Then proceede to the thirde ligatur••, which is done, by the onely application of the Sticticum plaster. This is his course in all great woundes, for the preuentinge of accidents. In small woundes there nee∣deth lesse curiositie.

Notes

• A plaster for preuen¦ting of ac∣cidents.