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 fitting Lixivium, for the amputating of any member in the moritified part.

* 1.1 REc. Com. Lix. de Cineribus Lign. Fract. Gallanos quatuor, herbae Centaur. Scord. Card. Benedict. Hyper. Absinth. Rosemar. ana. p. 3. Flor. Camom. Melilot. ana. p. 4. fiat decoctio ad tertiae partis consumpt. colentur, ac colat. adde Sal. Com. M. 2. Vitriol. Viria. se. lib. Spirit us Vini, 2. lib. Misce simul S. A.

* 1.2 Rec. Aeruginis ʒ. 5. Alum. Rochia ʒ. 4. Vitriol. Roman. ʒ. 2. Sal. Commun. ʒ. 1. se. Mellis ℥ 2. se. Aceti fortis ℥. 3. Misce & coquantur ad spissitudinem Unguenti.

* 1.3 Rec. Cerae Alba, Resinae Pini, five Vaccini, picis Gracae, Terebin. Olibani, Mirrhae, ana. ℥. 1. Olei Oliv. lib. 1. aut quantitatem sufficientem. Misce & fiat Unguentum. S. A. In cujus loco Liniment. Digestivum Arcei sufficiet.

* 1.4 Rec. Terebinth. Resinae, Cerae Albae, Amoniac. ana. ʒ. 14. Aristoloch. Long. Thuris Masculi, ana. ʒ. 6. B••ellii, Myrrhae Galban. ana. ʒ. 4. Opo∣panacis, For. Aeris, ana. ʒ. 2. Lytharg. ʒ. 9. Olei Oliv. lib. 2 se. Aceti, quant. S. ad Ammoniac. Galban. & Opopanac. dissolvendum. Misce secund. artem.

* 1.5 Rec. Cerae Citrini, ℥. 6. Olei Oliv. 2. lib. se. Terebinth. ℥. 2. Resinae, Colophoniae, ana. ℥. 1. se. Thur is, Mastichis, ana. ℥. 1. Croci, ʒ. 1. Confice secund. Artem.

* 1.6 Rec. Olei Oliv. 1. slib. ss. Lytharg. ℥. 2. Minii ℥. 3. Cerus. ℥. 1. se. Tutiae, Camphor. ana. ʒ. 3. Cerae Citrini, ℥. 2. Misce S. A. & fiat un∣guentum.

Moreover, there are to be prepared ready: 1. Cauterizing Buttons, such as are following hereafter described, for the eroding and fretting away of the putrid, Cadaverous, or sphacelated remainer after abscission of the first part, and these cauterizing Buttons ought to be thicker then others, namely, more ponderous then those, which usually Surgeons use to cauterize the end of one or two veins or arteries, which being otherwise not so serviceable for this kind of amputation or ope∣ration, of which it were requisite, that two or three were laid into the fire privately, to be hot, to do such needful services, as that work of dismembring requires, namely, they being hot, are to cauterize or crode (as is said) the putrid flesh.

Also it is as fitting to have in readinesse the other instruments com∣mon in all amputation, viz. A well fitted saw, a dismembring knife, and incision knife, or a sharp instrument, fit to divide and cleanse be∣twixt the bones, &c. Not forgetting likewise the other fit materials, amongst the rest, as stupes, and rollers, all which it ought to be the Surgeons own care, to be sure to see ready, that no one thing be want∣ing at the instant, and not to trust to his assistants, lest to his grief and reproach, he be wanting of some one or more of them in his necessity.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Lixivlum.
• * 1.2

  Ung. Aegyp∣tiac.
• * 1.3

  Ung. Digestiv.
• * 1.4

  Ung. Mundi∣ficat.
• * 1.5

  Ung. Incarnat.
• * 1.6

  Ung. Dosiccat.