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

CHAP. XXI. Of woundes in the necke.

FOR the knowledge of the wound, what partes are hurt by the wounde, and what was the cause of the wound, to wit, whe∣ther a thing cutting or pricking, part∣ly by your owne sight & senses: part∣ly by conference with the patient, or others, you are to receiue instructiō.

If a nerue in the neck be cut, there followeth some maime. A wounde pearcing to the back marrow, is mor¦tall & incurable. And if it come not at the marrow, though it then be cu∣rable, yet is there a feare of the losse of sense and mouing of those partes, which these wounded nerues, taking their originall from that hurt part of the back, do serue. A wound that tou¦cheth the recurrent nerues, causeth hoarcenes. A wound in the great vei∣nes & arteries is perillous. A wounde in the gullet, or in the wesand, is pe∣rillous.

For the preuenting of inflamatiōs & such other accidents, appoint in the beginning a slender diet, open a veine on the contrarie part: vse purgation, according to the nature of the aboun¦ding humors•• & repellents, or defen∣siue

medicins, to the parts about the wound. With the wound it selfe deale thus: if it be only in a fleshie or mus∣culous substance, then stitching only is required with glutinatiue medi∣cin••. If it be in the veines or arteries, stay the flux of bloud, either with me∣dicins, or by application of the finger to the orifice of the veine, or a••terie: as it happened to a certain mā, woun∣ded in his outer i••gular vein, who by the diligence of his friends, attending one after another, to hold their finger on the wound for three dayes•• escaped safe. Or if it may be, stitch the vessel. If you intend to doe it by application of the finger, be fure so long to holde it, til the bloud in the place bee clut∣tered. Rowling is not conuenient in this place: for that the necke through the great vessels in it, & passage of the vital & animal spirites•• may endure no binding or straitning. If the wounde be in the gullet or wesande, vse then also stitching & glutinatiues: holding besides in the mouth diasymphyton, diatragaganthū, diapapaue••is, &c. If the wound haue toucht the sinewes, after a thinne diet set, & vsing of reuulsiōs,

purging medicins, & repellentes: for the auoiding of inflamation, foment the wound with ol. rosac. calenti, & vse a mitigatiue ex oui vitello & ol. rosac. til the partie be set free from paine & inflamation. Afterwards, when there is perfect matter, apply this mundifi∣catiue Rec. mell••s ros••••, ℥.iiij. farinae hordei, ℥••ss. terebynthinae, ʒ.iij. resinae, ʒ.ij. thuris, masticis, ana, ʒ.j. myrrhae, sarcocollae, ana, ʒ.ss. cerae ʒ.ij.ol. masti∣chini, & hyperici, ana, ℥.iij•• mixe them, & make thereof a cleansing vnguent, &c. Now for the accidentes: if there grow any paine, mitigate it cū oui vi∣tello, & rosaceo. If there come a cōuul∣sion, annoynt the hinder part of the head & vertebres of the neck, cum ol. Chamomelino, anethino, lumbricorum, de terebynthina, pinguedine gallinae, & tere∣bynthina. For it is founde out by sure experience, for the most parte, that both terebynthina it selfe, and his oyle also, aswell in these woundes, as in those of the armes, do asswage pain, and hinder conuulsion.

Notes

• Prog.
• Cure.
• For acci∣dents.