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.

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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.
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Woodall, John, 1556?-1643.
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London :: printed by Iohn Legate, for Nicholas Bourne, and are to be sold at his shop at the south entrance of the Royall Exchange,
1655.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Military -- Early works to 1800.
Plague -- Prevention -- Early works to 1800.
Surgery -- Early works to 1800.
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Cautio è Petri Sibyllenii Medico insigni Germaniae in usum Medicinarum Catharticarum in curanda Peste.

A Caveat in the use of Purgative Medicines, in cases of the cure of the Plague.

QUod verò aliqui Medici sentiunt solutiva Medicamina in princi∣pio hujus acutissimi morbi convenire, & venenosam materiam eorum vi, & calore è corpore educendam esse, horum sententiae Galeni & Avicennae testimonia & firma argumenta supra exposita valde adversantur, quorum authoritaeem Hippocrat. Lib. 4. de ratione victus in morbis acutis confirmat, cum inquit: Ubi in morbo venae sectio & solutiva Medicamenta necessaria sunt, venae incisio praecedere debt. Et Avensoar. Lib. 3. de Theisi dicit, Sed antequam fiat purgatio aliqua, praecipiatur, ut fiat evacuatio universalis, & hoc cum Phlebotomiâ, &c. Et quia Medicamentorum laxantium in boc casu usus gravis, infensus & periculosus propter multas evidentes causs, corpori esse

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solet, Eapropter imperitorum, barbarorum, & circumforaneorum Medico∣rum curam, qui violentissimis Pharmacis causam morbi expellere opinan∣tur, utpotè Mercurio praecipitato quem rubicundum pulverem falso prae∣stantem pradicant has dial cto modo adscribam. Cathartica sive purgantia Medicamenta, magnam vim caloris in se continent, qua velociter attrahun, & humores in venis commovent, simulque expellunt, quâque commotione natura regetiva totius corporis in sua Crisi & conatu obtunditur & proster∣nitur, & plerunque evenit expulsio symptomatica morti vicina, quare non conducunt in hujus Pestis initio. Praeterea omn Catharticum movet matriam ad interiora, hoc est, à superficie ad Centrum, quod est Cor: In omni autem venenosâ materia hoc improbatur, materia entm venenosa à Centro ad super∣ficiem expelli debet. idcirco Pharmaca in initio morbi exhibita plus incom∣modi quam commodi adferunt.

Huc accidit quod Cathartica hujusmodi Medicamenta quae fortia & acuta sunt per se venenosa censentur; non est autem venenum veneno apponendum, omne enim tale addituns suo tali (ut est communis Regula) facit illud magis tale.

Major probatur ex Joh. Mesue de consolatione Medicinarum, bi inquit, Omnis Medicina laxativa est de genere venenosarum rerum, cujus excessum Natura non patitur, nullo propterea Cathartico Pestis tempore cor∣pora vacuanda sunt. Quandoquidem Medicus pro suo officio & doctrina quam profitetur minister, custos & imitator Naturae dicitur. Natura autm in Peste à Centro ad superficiem conatur ve••••num pellere, ergo Medicus rie imitatur Naturae ductum juxt Aphorism. Hippocrat. Libr. 21. Aphorism. 1. Quo Naturae vergit ad loca conferentia eo ducere oportet, &c.

Et quia Cathartica innata sua vi & crudelitate Naturam regetivam totius corporis prosternunt, qua ob Pest is quoque acuitatem & impetum lan∣guida & infirma est, virtus vero hoc tmpore conservanda qua prestrata periclitatur aeger, ergo nullum Pharmacum dandum est.

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