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.

The battle of S. Quintin, 1557.

AFter the battel of S. Quintin, the King sent for me to the Fere in Tartemis toward Mon∣sieur the Marshal of Bourdillon, to have a pass-port by the Duke of Sav••y to go to dress Monsieur the Constable, who was grievously hurt with a Pistol-shot in the back, whereof he was like to dye, and remained a prisoner in his enemies hands. But the Duke of Savoy would not give consent that I should go to the said Lord Constable, saying, he would not remain without a Surgeon, and that he doubted I was not sent only to dress him▪ but to give him some advertise∣ment, and that he knew I understood something else beside Surgery, and that he knew me to have been his prisoner at Hedin. Monsieur the Marshal of Bourdillon advertised the King of the Dukes denial, by which means the King writ to the said Lord of Bourdilloon, that if my Lady, the Lord high Constables wife, did send any body of her house, which was an able man, that I should give him a letter, and that I should also have told him by word of mouth, what the King and Mon∣sieur the Cardinal of Lorraine had given me in charge. Two daies after there arrives a servant of the Lord Constables Chamber, who brought him shirts, and other linnen, for which the said Lord Marshal gave pass-port, to go to the said Lord Constable; I was very glad thereof, and gave him my letter, and gave him his lesson, of that which his M••ster should do being prisoner. I had thought being discharged of my embassage to return toward the King. But the said Lord of Bour∣dillon prayd me to stay with him at the Fere to dress a great number of people who were hurt, and were thither retired after the battle; and that he would send word to the King, the cause of my stay; which I did. The wounds of the hurt people were greatly stinking, and full of worms with gangrene and putrefaction; so that I was constrained to come with my knife to amputate that which was spoild, which was not without cutting off arms and legs, as also to trepan divers Now there were not any medicines to be had at the Fere, because the Surgeons of our Camp had car∣ried all with them; I found out that the Charriot of the Artillery tarried behinde at the Fere, nor had it yet been touched. I prayd the Lord Marshal that he would cause some of the drogues to be delivered to me which were in it; which he did, and there was given to me one half at a time: five or six dayes after I was constrained to take the rest, neither was there half enough to

dress so great a number of the people, & to contract & stay the putrefaction, and to kill the worms that were entred into their wounds, I washed them with Aegyptiacum dissolved in wine and Aqua vitae, and did for them, all which I could possible, yet notwithstanding all my diligence, very ma∣ny of them died.

There were Gentlemen at the Fere who had charge to finde out the dead body of Monsieur de Bois-D••lphin the elder, who had been slain in the battle; they prayed me to accompany them to the Camp to finde him out amongst the dead, if it were possible, which indeed was impossible; seeing that the bodies were all disfavoured and overwhelmed with putrefaction. We saw more then half a league about us the earth covered with dead bodies, neither could we abide long there, for the cadaverous sents which did arise from the dead bodies, as well of men as of Horses. And I think we were the cause, that so great a number of flies rose from the dead bodies, which were procreated by their humidity and the heat of the Sun, having their tails green and blew, that being up in the air made a shadow in the Sun. We heard them buz, or hum, which was much mar∣vel to us. And I think it was enough to cause the Plague where they allighted. (My little ma∣ster) I would you had been there as I was, to distinguish the ordures, and also to make report to them which were never there. Now being cloyed and annoyed in that Country, I prayd Monsieur the Lord Marshal, to give me my leave to be gont, and that I was affraid I should be sick by reason of my too great pains, and the stinks which did arise from the wounded, which did almost all dye, for what diligence soever was used unto them. He made other Surgeons to come finish the dressing of the said hurt people, and I went away with his good grace and favor. He wrote a letter to the King▪ of the pains he had taken with the poor wounded. Then I retur∣ned to Paris, where I found yet many Gentlemen that had been hurt, and were there retired after the battle.