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.

The Cure.

THe manner of curing the Collick is effected by renewing and taking away the cause, and then the paine vanisheth: But to re∣move the cause, many things are to be put in practise; as preparing the humours by evacuation, remission and resolution, all which re∣quire some long time, and therefore other meanes are first to be used to take away the paine, or at least to mitigate the same with Anodine medicines, and the due application of convenient helps of warme and moist temperatures, which not helping, you must a∣gaine have recourse to Necroticall and Stupifying things, which in∣deed are not to be used, but in great extremities to give the patient some present ease.

Anodine medicines are to be adminstred so well inwardly as out∣wardly; as first inwardly, namely in glysters consisting of moist and fat substance, as the decoction of Camomill, Dill, Linseed, Melli∣lot, Mallowes, Hollihock, Fenigreek, Bayberies, or some of these, with one ounce of the new extract of Cassia, and some suger, with Lin∣seed oyle and butter administred. Outwardly, these are to be apply∣ed, either Unctions, Cataplasmes, Fomentations, Baths, or some such like convenient medicines, as time and place best fitteth.

But if these should not help, then in great extremities, you are to flie yet againe to Necroticall or stupifying medicines, as namely Lan∣danum Paracelsi, which exceedeth all Necroticis: or Philonium Roma∣num is also a good medicine; these are onely to be used in causes pro∣ceeding

of heat, and never of cold causes; for in cold causes that were rather to confirm the disease, and yet in the judging whether the cause be hot or cold, sometimes a good Artist deceives himself. If the Collick come of winde, then you must apply warm resolving me∣dicines, I mean dissolving and dispersing medicines.

Notes

• Method of the cure.
• Anodines first.
• Necrotical me∣dicines if need.