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.

Of Cordials.

* 1.1 A Present Cordial medicine fitting to be given in the Callenture is Venice Treacle or Mithridate ℈j. London Treacle, or Dia∣tesseron ʒss. with Syrup Limoniorum ℥ j. Plantane water or fair water, ℥iij. oyl of Vitriol six drops, or so much as to make the drink tart, and one houre or two houres after give him another dose thereof, and forthwith also let him have a suppository or glyster given him and so soone as he hath had one stoole therewith, let him blood reasonable

largely if his strength will beare it, let him also have for his diet no other thing for two or three daies but thin broathes, pannadies or the like; and if it be thought fit to take it, after the suppository, a glyster were not amisse to be given him, namely, decoction of March Mallow roots in water, adding in the end of the decoction of Saltniter ℥iiij. of Species Hierae ʒij. Oleum Sambucae ℥ij these will coole him well and cleanse him.

And if further need of purging be, give him a dose of Aquilla Laxa∣tiva, or Aquilla vitae, a dose, which in this disease hath been approved very good.

The Aquilla Laxativa is usually given in ℥iij. of Plantane or faire water with Syrupe of Violets or Lemmons ℥j. the Aquilla vitae with Conserva Rosarum, with Diatesseron Liquorice-powder or alone. If you see these courses reasonably put in practise, doe not give content, I meane the body being open, then in the name of God give him a dose of Laudanum, you shall find it often to procure perfect health with∣out* 1.2 further help. For his drink let him have a decoction of French or commou Barley, whereunto so much Liquorice, or Succus Liquo∣ricae may be added, as to make it of a grateful tast, as also for the smel, a small quantity of Rose or other vineger, and Rose water a little, and thereto so much oyle of Vitriol; as to give it a tast somewhat tart but not too much: Syrupe or juyce of Lemmons is also very fitting to be put thereto if it be to be had in any plenty. But let me advise the Chirurgions Mate in all the precedent courses, that he,* 1.3 use good discretion and moderation, for over purging, bleeding, much thin diet will be very dangerous at Sea, and will surely turne* 1.4 your Patient unto the Scurvy: for note this for a general rule, that almost every sicknesse at Sea ends in the Scurvy: and the Scurvy [ 1] oft-times unlades her selfe by a flux with death attending there∣on, [ 2] without Gods mercy, and the Christian Commiseration, diligence* 1.5 and skilful hand of the Chirurgions Mate, which that he may the better be enabled in all difficult cases to practise and performe his duty, the God of all glory assist him with his grace.

Amen.

Notes

• * 1.1

  A Cordial p••ti∣on for the Cal∣lenture.
• * 1.2

  His ordinary drink what it must be, and of what it is made.
• * 1.3

  Good Chiru••gi∣on take notice.
• * 1.4

  Two principal observations.
• * 1.5

  By Gods mercy miseries are prevented, and Art in cu∣ring blessed.