The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters.

CHAP. XXVI. Of the Wounds of the Nose.

* 1.1THe Nose many wayes suffers solution of continuity; as by a wound, fracture, and contu∣sion, and it is sometimes battered and broken on the upper part; which when it happens, you shall restore the deprest Bones to their native seat and figure, with the end of a Spatu∣la, or fit stick wrapped about with Tow, Cotton, or a linnen rag. Then with pledgets dipped in an astringent medicine composed ex albumine ovi,* 1.2 Mastich. bol. armen. sanguin. drac. & alumine usto, and applyed to the side of the Nose, he shall labour to strengthen the restored Bones, and then bind them with a convenient ligature, which may not press them too much, lest the nose should become flat, as it happens too many through the unskifulness of Chirurgeons.

* 1.3Then must you put little pipes into the no∣strils,

[illustration]

The Figure of Pipes to be put into the Nostrils.

and these not exactly round, but somewhat flat and deprest, tyed to the night-cap on each side with a thred, lest they should fall out. By the help of these pipes the bones of the nose will be kept in their place, and there will be passage forth for the matter, and for in∣spiration and exspiration. But if all the Nose, or some portion thereof shall be wholly cut off, we must not hope to restore it. But if the Nose be so cut, that as yet it adheres to much of the adjacent flesh, from whence it may receive life and nourishment, the sow it up. For the lower part of the Nose, it may be shaken, de∣prest and wrested aside, seeing it is gristly; but it cannot be broken, as the other which is of a bony nature.

Notes

• * 1.1

  How many wayes the nose may be hurt.
• * 1.2

  The cure of a broken nose.
• * 1.3

  The uses of pipes in broken noses.