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.

Acetum vini.

VVIne Vinegar helpeth the unnatural swellings of the belly, as also cureth the fluxes of the stomack, the parts grieved being fomen∣ted

therewith: it stayeth the inordinate menstrual fluxes, the region of the liver or the bearing parts fomented therewith warm; namely with stupes wet therein. It is good against vomiting, the stomack outwardly fomen∣ted with warm stupes wet therein: It also discusseth and dissipateth vio∣lent hot tumors in their beginnings; yea, even those which are named Panaritiae, or, as some term them, fellons. Good wine-vinegar excelleth, used in Cataplasmes, as also in somentations, where anodine Medicines are to be used, provided the place be not excoriated; as namely, in Hernia humorali. With bean-meal, and oyl of Roses, it is a present help being well applied, with apt trussings, and good care had. In the falling down of the fundament it is approved good, sometimes with wine used warm to foment the part withall; as also to be cast on bricks to receive the fume thereof. In the hot Gout, and in all inflammations, as the Rose, or Ignis sacer, or (as some call it) Saint Antonies fire, by way of fomentation with wine vinegar, it is a precious help; as also made into a sirrupe with honey, then termed Oximel; or with Sugar, then termed Oxisaccatum; it is very convenient to a weak stomack; for it causeth appetite, and is a help to digestion, given ℥ i. or ℥ ii. at once, for it cutteth away flegme and refresheth nature, and corroborateth the stomack; also by way of a Gar gerisme, it is an approved remedy against Squinantia anginae, or any of the sudden inflammations of Collumelle, or the Amygdales of the throat; and if Roses be put therein, it is good for all the aforesaid uses, yet more, better, and maketh the vinegar much more Cordial: It is very questionable, whether wine vinegar be of temperament hot or cold, considering the different effects thereof, for I should not doubt to give reasonable content to any unpartial Artist, that it doth both the effects of a hot and cold medicine, proving it both by authority and practice to be hot and cold; yea, even by Galen himself, Tesie cap. 6. lib. prim. simpl: med. & cap. 20. ejusdem lib.