The surgeons mate or Military & domestique surgery Discouering faithfully & plainly ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise as namely: wounds, apos fumes, ulcers, fistula's, fractures, dislocations, with ye most easie & safest wayes of amputation or dismembring. The cures of the scuruey, of ye fluxes of ye belly, of ye collicke and iliaca passio, of tenasmus and exitus ani, and of the calenture, with A treatise of ye cure of ye plague. Published for the service of his Ma. tie and of the com:wealth. By John Woodall Mr. in chyrurgerie.

Aqua Falopii.

FOr this water, if you desire the composition thereof, I refer you to the Author; namely, Gabrielus Falopius, in his Treatise De Morbo Gallico: but hereafter I mean to set down some several compositions thereof; for the Author hath divers.

It is a water proper, and is made chiefly of Mercury sublimed, I say chief∣ly, for that though the other things for quantity be ten for one, yet sub∣limed Mercury will carry no cools, but will ever shew his valour in hea∣ling or spoiling: I put not this composition ready made into any Sur∣geons Chest, but rather leave the ingredients, and let the discreet Surgeon make it to please himself; for if I my self should find such a composition made by any, I should much fear to use of it, and so I wish the Surgeons Mate to do in all Mercurial Lotions; but rather let him use such other good Lotions, as are set down in the cure of the Scurvy; unto any of which he may add sublimate, and term it if he please, Aqu•• Falopii: but I say, let him well understand himself both in the composition, and administration of any such medicines, or let him crave advice, or rather forbear them, and use other safer medicines, though their vertues or vi∣ces perhaps be fewer.