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. IV. A description of fit Instruments to draw forth Bullets and other strange Bodies.

BOth the magnitude and figure of Instruments fit for drawing forth of Bullets and other strange Bodies, are various according to the diversity of the incident occasions. For some are toothed, others smooth, others of another figure and bigness; of all which sorts the Chirurgeon must have divers in a readiness, that the may fit them to the Bodies and Wounds, and not the Wounds and Bodies to his Instruments.

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The Delineation of such like Instruments.

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The straight Cranes bill being also to••thed, fit for drawing forth hail-shot, pieces of ar∣m••••r, splinter of bones, and such things as lye deep within.

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The Ducks-bill.

This Ducks-bill hath a large round and toothed cavity in the end, for so it more easily taketh hold of the Bullet when it lies amongst much Flesh.

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The crocked Cranes-bill, with teeth like a Saw.

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A toothed Crows Bill.

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Another Instrument fit for drawing forth of Bullets, which may be tearmed a Catch-Bullet.

• A. Shews the Trunk.
• B. Shews the rod, or string, which opens and shuts the joynt.
• C. The joynt.

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Another Catch-Bullet called a Lizards-nose, made for drawing out of Bullets, which are somewhat flatted, by striking upon a Bone.

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The Parrots-beak is made for draw∣ing forth pieces of mail thrust into the flesh, or bones; and this is the figure thereof.

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The Swans-bill opens with a screw; you may with this di∣late the wounds, and so put in a straight Cranes-bill, is pincers to pluck forth strange bodies.

The figure of both are here exprest.

• A. Shews the screw pin.
• B. The hol∣lowed part which receives the round part noted with.
• C. Which is opened and shut by the screw. D. D. Falls, or stays, which go∣vern the running branch.

But if these strange bodies, especially Bullets and Hail-shot, be not too deep in the Wound, they may be taken forth with your Levatory, or else by the help of these Gimblets. These Gim∣blets are screwed into their pipes, or canes, and enter with their screwed points into the Bullets, if that they be of Lead or Tin, and of no harder metal; and so being fastned in them, bring them out with them.

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The figure of the Gimblet with his pipe or cane.

Besides the Swans-bill which we lately mentioned, there are also other instruments fit to dilate and open the Wounds, therefore called Dilaters, by whose help the Wound may be held open, that so the hidden bodies may be seen; for when you press together the two ends of this In∣strument, the other two open and dilate themselves. You may also use them in dilating divers other parts of the bo∣dy, as the Nostrils, Fundament, and such like.

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Dilaters.

The Instruments which follow are called Seton-needles, or Probes; whose use is, to draw through a Flamula, so to keep the Wound open, that you may the better take forth my strange body. Besides also we use the same Needles to search, or as it were to sound the deepness of the Wounds,

and to find out the Bullets. For they cannot put one to much pain because they have smooth and round ends.* 1.1 So also all Probes wherewith we search for Bullets, must have somewhat large, smooth and round ends. For

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Probes for to put flamulaes through a Wound withal.

seeing that the verges of the Wound meet together pre∣sently after the hurt, if the Probes be too small or slen∣der, they will stick in the ine∣quality of the flesh, neither will they be able to come to the Bullet. But if they be sharp and pointed, they will cause and renew the pain by prick∣ing the flesh they meet with∣all, and so hinder your inten∣tion of finding the Bullet; Now you must be furnished with these instruments of a different length, according to the various thicknesse of the parts; for you cannot put a∣ny through the thigh but such as are of good length.

Notes

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  What probes fit to search these Wounds.