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.

A brief definition of Mercury.

MErcury is a liquid substance sower, or sharp, volatile, penetrable, ayrie, and most pure, from which all nourishment proceedeth, as also all sense, motion, strength, and colour, and the keeping back old age from man, chiefly next the divine operations of God resteth therein, and it agreeth well with the elements of aire and water; for to the former it is subject upon every offered occasion to vanish into the soft aire: to the latter, in that it is very difficultly contained in any straight or certain bound, but easily in a vaste or wide capacitie. Likewise there are that define Mercury to be a liquid substance, that is Eger, Porous, alwaies moveable, often mutable, and ea••ily pene∣trable, and a body that is most pure and heavenly, most subtile, and of a lively and spiritual substance, being the food of life, and yet a shape, that is also most mutable, concerning his several shapes of all other creatures; whereupon Phalopius tearmeth Mercury, Miraculum naturae mundo, The miracle of Nature in the world. In which de∣finition, if the Reader may suppose I speak this of the vulgar Mer∣cury, viz. Quick-silver, and the wonderful Imps of his production, he takes me off too short by figure. Wherefore I here conclude the definition of Mercury, and passe to Sulphur.