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.

Lotion.

THis word Lotion, is a general phrase with many Surgeons, as if there were no difference in Lotions, whereas their differences are infinite: but here I will use it as the vulgar sort do. A Lotion com∣pounded of vulnerary hearbs gathered in their prime, and decocted with allumen and mel in aqua pura, I confesse may retain a name general as wellas any one outward medicine I know; for if well prepared, good use may be made thereof; as namely, it is all in all to be used as an in∣jection generally for griefs of the yard, aswell within the passage as also 'twixt glans and praeputium, and in Gonorrea; which though it can∣not cure the disease, yet it healeth the excoriations thereof, and strengtheneth well the parts; and so doth it in all exulceratious of the same, remembring, that if you use it within the passage of the yard, if you find it be too tart of the Allom, you mix it with Plaintane-water if you have it, or for want thereof with fair water. Note that the first time you begin injection, it be very gently done, then you may fortifie it as you see cause; namely, give it of it self, or with the addition of a little well dulcified Mercury where occasion is, but that warily; namely, seldom or never within the passage, 'but twixt glans and praeputium dai∣ly (if you will) upon just occasion; and administer no Lotion within the passage of Virga cold, but warm ever. Further it hath the prime place, for a Catholick medicine in exulcerations and excoriations of the mouth and throat, both in Town and Country, and is become in such cases every old wives medicine: I have touched it in the cure of the Scurvy, wherefore here for brevities sake, I crave pardon: Onely, let me tell the Surgeons Mate, that in want of such a Lotion, though it be not in all points answerable thereto, yet he may make a good Lotion at sea of fresh water, Allome, and Hony, provided he be wary not to be too plentiful of the Allome.