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 Voyage of Flanders.

MOnsieur the Duke of Ascot did not fail to sent a Gentleman to the King with a letter, humbly to beseech him to do him so much good and honour, as to permit and command his chief Surgeon to come to see the Marquess of Auret his brother; who had received a Musket-shot near the knee, with fracture of the bone, about seven months since, which the Physicians and Surgeons in those parts were much troubled to cure. The King sent for me and commanded me to go see the said Lord Auret, and to help him in all that I could for the cure of his hurt; I told him I would employ all that little knowledg which it hath pleased God to give me. I went then conducted by two gentlemen of the Castle of Auret, which is a league and a half from Mounts in Hainaut, where the Said Marqess was: as soon as I arrived I visited him, and told him the King had commanded me to come to see him, and to dress him of his hurt; he told me he was glad of my comming, and was much bound to the King to have done him the honor to have sent me to him, I found him in a great fever, his eyes very much sunk, with a countenance gastly and yellow, his tongue drye and rough, and all the body emaciated and lean, his speech low like that of a dying man: then I found his thigh much swelled, apostemated, ulcerated, and casting out a green stinking matter; I searchd it with a probe, and by the same I found a cavity neer the groin, ending in the middle of the thigh, and others about the knee, sanious and cuniculous; al∣so certain scales of bones, some separated, others not. The legs were much turnified, and soa∣ked with a pituitous humor, cold, moist, and flatulent; insomuch that the natural heat was in the way to be suffocated, and extinguished, and the said leg crooked and extracted toward the but∣tocks, his rump ulcerated the bredth of the palm of an hand, and he said he felt there a great pain and smarting, and likewise in his reins, insomuch that he could not take any rest night or day; neither had he any appetite to eat, but to drink enough; it was told me that he fell of∣ten into faintings and swoonings, and sometimes as it were by an Epilepsie, and had oftentimes desired to vomit, with such a trembling that he could not carry his hands to his mouth. Seeing and considering all these great accidents, and the forces much abated; truly I was much grieved to have gone to him, because me thought there was little appearance that he could escape. Not∣withstanding to give him good courage and good hope, I told him, that I would quickly set him on foot by the grace of God, and the Physicians and Surgeons help. Having seen him, I went a walking into a Garden, where I prayed to God that he would give me the grace to cure him, and that he would give a blessing to our hands and medicaments, to combate against so many complicated maladies. I bethought in my minde the waies I must keep to do it. They called me to dinner, I entred into the kitchin where I saw taken out of a great pot, half a Mutton, a quarter of Veal, three great pieces of Beef, and two pullets, and a great piece of Bacon, with great store of good Herbs. Then I said to my self, this broth was full of juice, and of good nou∣rishment; After dinner all the Physicions and Surgeons assembled, we entered into conference in the presence of Monsieur the Duke of Ascot, and some Gentlemen that did accompany him; I began to tell the Surgeons that I marvelled much they had made no apertions in the Marpuesses thigh, which was all apostumated, and the matter that issued out was foul and stinking, which shewed it had a long time lurked there, and that I found with my probe a Caries in the bone, and small scales which were already separated; they made me answer, he would never give con∣sent, and likewise it was almost two months since they could win him to put on clean sheets on his bed, neither durst any one scarce touch the coverlet, he felt so great pain. Then said I, for to cure him, we must touch other things then the coverlet of the bed. Each one said what he thought best for the Lords grief, and for conclusion held it all together deplorable. I told them there was yet some hope, because of his youth, and that God and nature do sometime such things which seem to Physicians and Surgeons impossible. My consultation was, that all those accidents were come by reason of the bullet hitting near the joynt of the knee, which had broken the ligaments, tendons, and aponeuroses of the muscles which tye the said joynt together with the Os femoris; also nerves, veins &, arteries from whence had followed pain, inflammation, apostume and ulcer: & that we must begin the cure by the disease, which was the cause of all the said accidents, that is to say, to make apertions, to give issue to the matter retained in the interspaces of the muscles, and in the substance of them: Likewise to the bones which caused a great corruption in the

whole thigh, from whence the vapors did arise and were carried to the heart, which caused the syncope and the fever; and the fever an universal heat through the whole body; and by conse∣quent, depravation of the whole Oeconomy; Likewise that the said vapors were communicated to the brain, which caused the Epilepsie, and trembling, and to the stomach disdain and loathing, and hindered it from doing its functions, which are chiefly to concoct and digest the meat, and to convert it into Chylus; which not being concocted, they ingender crudities and obstructions, which makes that the parts are not nourished, and by consequent the body dryes, and grows lean; and because also it did not do any exercise; for every part which hath not his motion remaineth languid, and atrophiated, because the heat and spirits are not sent or drawn thither, from whence follows mortification. And to nourish and fatten the body, frictions must be made universally through the whole body, with warm linnen cloths above, below, and on the right side, and left, and round about: to the end to draw the blood and spirits from within outward, and to resolve any fuliginous vapors retained between the skin, and the flesh; thereby the parts shall be nou∣rished and restored, (as I have heretofore said in the tenth book treating of the wounds of Gun-shot) and we must then cease when we see heat and redness in the skin, for fear of resolving that we have already drawn, & by consequent make it become more lean. As for the ulcer which he hath upon his rump, which came through his two long lying upon it without being removed, which was the cause that the spirits could not flourish or shine in it, by the means of which there should be inflammation, aposteme and then ulcer, yea with loss of substance of the subject flesh, with a very great pain, because of the nerves which are disseminated in this part: That we must likewise put him in another soft bed, and give him a clean shirt, and sheets; otherwise all that we could do would serve for nothing, because that those excrements and vapors of the matter retained so long in his bed, are drawn in by the Systole and Diastole of the Arteries which are disseminated through the skin, and cause the spirits to change and acquire an ill quality and cor∣ruption which is seen in some that lye in a bed where one hath swet for the Pox, who will get the Pox by the putrid vapors which shall remain soaking in the sheets and coverlets. Now the cause why he could in no wise sleep, and was as it were in a consumption, twas because he ate little, and did not do any exercise, and because he was grieved with extreme pain. For there is no∣thing that abateth so much the strength as pain. The cause why his tongue was drye and fowl, was through the vehemency of the heat of the fever, by the vapors which ascended through the whole body to the mouth. For as we say in a common proverb, When the oven is well heat, the throat feels it. Having discoursed of the causes and accidents, I said they must be cured by their contraries, and first we must appease the pain, making apertions in the thigh to evacuate the matter retained, not evacuating all at a time for fear lest by a sudden great evacuation there might happen a great decay of spirits which might much weaken the patient and shorten his dayes. Se∣condly, to look to the great swelling and cold of his leg, fearing lest it should fall into a Gangrene and that actual heat must be applied unto him, because the potential could not reduce the intemperature de potentia ad actum; for this cause hot briks must be applied round about, on which should be cast a decoction of nerval herbs boyled in wine and vineger, then wrapt up in some napkin, and to the feet an earthen bottle filled with the said decoction, stopt and wrapt up with some linnen cloths; also that fomentations must be made upon the thigh, and the whole Leg, of a decoction made of Sage, Rosemary, Tyme, Lavander, flowers of Cammomile, Melilot, and red-Roses, boiled in white-wine, and a Lixivium made with Oke-ashes, with a little Vineger, and half an handful of salt. This decoction hath vertue to attenuate, incise, resolve and drye the gross viscous humor. The said fomentations must be used a long while, to the end there may be a great resolution; for being so done a long time together, more is resolved then attracted, because the humor contained in the part is liquified, the skin and the flesh of the muscles is rari∣fied. Thirdly, that there must be applied upon the rump a great emplaster made of the red desic∣cative and unguentum Comitissae, of each equal parts incorporated together, to the end to appease his pain, and drye up the ulcer, also to make bim a little down-pillow which might bear his rump aloft without leaning upon it. Fourthly, to refresh the heat of his kidnies, one should apply the unguent called Refrigerans Galeni freshly made, and upon the leaves of water-Lillies. Then a napkin dipt in Oxucrate, wrung and often renewed: and for the corroboration and strengthening of his heart a refreshing medicine should be applied made with oyl of nenuphar, and unguent of Roses and a little saffron distilled in Rose-vineger, and Triacle spread upon a piece of Scarlet, for the Syncope which proceeded from the debilitation of the natural strength troubling the brain. Also he must use good nourishment full of juice, as rere eggs, Damask-prunes stewed in wine and sugar, also Panado made of the broth of the great pot (of which I have already spoken) with the white fleshly parts of Capons, and Patridg-wings minced small, and other rost-meat easie of di∣gestion, as Veal, Goat, Pigeon, Partridg, and the like. The sauce should be Orenges, Verjuice, Sorrel, sharp Pomgranats; and that he should likewise eat of them boiled with good herbs, as Sorr••l, Lettuce Purslain, Succory, Bugloss, Marigolds, and other the like. At night he might use cleansed Barly with the juice of Nenuphar and Sorrel, of each two ounces, with five or six grains of Opium and of the four cold seeds bruised, of eath half an ounce, which is a remedy nourishing and medicinal, which will provoke him to sleep: that his bread should be of Messin, neither too new, nor too stale; and for the great pain of his head, his hair must be cut, and rub his head with Oxyrrh••dinum luke-warm, and leave a double-cloth wet therein upon it; likewise should be made for him a frontal of oyl of Roses, Nenuphar, Poppies, and a little opium and

Rose-vineger, and a little Champhire and to renew it sometimes. Moreover one should cause him to smell to the flowers of Henbane and Nenuphar bruised with vineger, Rose-water and a little Camphir wrapped in a handkercher, which shall be often and a long time held to his nose, to the end that the smell may be communicated to the brain, and these things to be continued till that the great inflammation and pain be past, for fear of cooling the brain too much. Besides, one may cause it to rain artificially in powring down from some high place into a kettle, and that it may make such a noise that the patient may hear it; by these means sleep shall be provo∣ked on him. And as for the retraction of his leg that there was hope to dress it, when evacua∣tion was made of the matter and other humors contained in the thigh, which by their extention (made by repletion) have drawn back the leg, which might be remedied in rubbing the whole joint of the knee with unguentum Dialthaeae and oyl of Lilies, and a little aqua vitae, and upon it to be laid black-wool with the grease thereof. Likewise putting in the ham a feather-pillow folded in double, and by little and little to make his leg to stretch out. All which my discourse was well approved of by the Physicians and Surgeons. The consultation ended, we went to the sick patient, and I made him three apertions in his thigh, from whence issued our great quantity of matter and Sanies; and at the same time I d••ew out some scales of bones, nor would I let out two much abundance of the said matter for fear of too much decaying his strength: Then two or three hours I caused a bed to be made neer his own, where there were clean white sheets, then a strong man lifted him into it, and he rejoyced much in that he was ta∣ken out of his foul stinking bed. Soon after he demanded to sleep, which he did almost four hours, where all the people of the house began to rejoyce, chiefly Monsieur the Duke of Ascot his brother.

The dayes following I made injections into the bottom of the cavities of the ulcer, made with Aegyptiacum, dissolved sometimes in aqua vitae, and sometimes in wine. I applyed to mun∣difie and drie tne spongy and loose flesh, bolsters; at the bottom of the sinuosities, hollow tents of lead, that the Sanies might have passage out; and upon it a great Emplaster of Diacalcitheos dissolved in wine: likewise I did rowl it with such dexterity, that he had no pain, which being appeased, the fever began much to diminish. Then I made him drink wine moderately allayed with water, knowing that it restores and quickens the spirits: and all the things which were rested on in the consultation were accomplisht, according to time and order; and his pains and fever ceased, he began to grow better, and discharged two of his Surgeons and one of his Physicians, so that we were but three with him. Now I remained there about two months, which was not without seeing divers sick people, as well rich as poor, which came to me about three or four leagues a∣bout. They gave meat and drink to the needy, all which he recommended to me, and prayed me al••o for his sake to help them. I protest I did not refuse any one, and did to them what I possibly could, wherefore he was joyful. Then when I saw he began to mend, I told him he must have a consort of Violins and a Jester to make him merry, which he did: in one month we so wrought, that he could hold himself up in a chair, and made himself to be carried and walk in his garden, and at the gate of his Castle to see the people pass by. The Country people of two or three leagues about, knowing they could see him, came the feast day male and female, to sing and dance pell mel, in joy of his amendment, all being very glad to see him, which was not done with∣out good laughing and drinking. He causd still a barrel of beer to be given them, and they drank all merrily to his good health. And the Citizens of Mont Hainaut and other Gentlemen neigh∣bors came to see him in admiration, as a man comming from the tomb. And as soon as he began to mend, he was not without company, and as one went out another came in to visit him: his table was alwaies well covered. He was greatly loved of the Nobility, and of the Common peo∣ple, as well for his liberality as for his beauty, and honesty, having a pleasant look and a gracious speech, insomuch that those that beheld his face were constrained to love him. The chief of the City of Monts came on Saturday to beseech him to permit me to go to Monts where they had a great desire to feast and make mee good cheer for his sake. He told them he would pray me to go there, which he did. But I made them answer that they should not do me so much honour, as also that they could not give me better cheer then I had with him. And he prayed me again affectionately to go thither, and that I should do that for his sake, to which I agreed. The day after they fetcht me with two Coaches, and being arrived at Monts we found the dinner ready, and the chief of the City with their wives, stayed for me with a good will. We went to the Ta∣ble and they placed me at the upper end, and drank all to me, and to the health of Monsieur D'Au∣ret, saying that he way very happy, and they likewise to have obtained me to take him in hand, for that they knew that in this company he was greatly honoured and loved. After dinner they led me back to the Castle of Auret, where Monsieur the Marquess stayed for me with great ex∣pectation to recount unto him, what we had done in our banquet. I told him that all the com∣pany had drank divers times to his health; in six weeks he began to uphold himself a little with cruches, and grow very fat and to get a lively natural colour. Now he had a desire to go to Beaument, which is the dwelling place of Monsieur the Duke of A cot, and made himself be car∣ried in a great chair with eight men by turns, and the Country folks where we passed along, know∣ing twas Monsieur the Marquess, fought and strove together who should carry him, and constrai∣ned us to drink, but it was but Beer, but I believe had it been Wine or Hippocras, they would have given it us with a verry good will, so much did they shew themselves joyful to see the said Marquess, and prayed all to God for him. Being arrived at Beaumont, all the people came before

us to do him reverence, and prayed God to bless, him, and keep him in good health. We entred into the Castle where there was more then fifty Gentlemen which the Duke of Ascot had sent for to come make good cheer with his brother, who kept his table furnished three dayes toge∣ther: And after dinner the Gentlemen ran at the Ring, played at Foils, and re••oyced to see Monsieur Auret, because they heard he would never come out of his bed again, or be cured of his hurt. I was alwaies at the upper end of the table, where every one drank carouses to him, and mee, thinking to make me foxt, which they could not do: For I drank but according to my old custom. A few dayes after we returned back and took leave of Madam the Dutchess of Ascot, who took a Diamond-ring from her finger which she gave me, acknowledging I had very well drest her brother; which Diamond was better worth then fifty Crowns. Monsieur Auret grew better and better, & walked all alone round about his garden with crutches. I begd leave of him divers times to come away to Paris declaring that his Physician and Surgeon would well do the rest that remained for the cure of his grief. And now to begin a little to estrange my self from him, I prayed him to give me leave to go see the City of Antwerp, which he willingly accor∣d d to: and commanded his Steward to conduct me thither accompanied with two Pages; we passed through Malignes & Bruxelle, where the chief of the City prayed the said Steward, that at our return they might hear of it; & they they had a great desire to feast me, as they of Monts had done. I thankt them most kindely, & told them that I was not worthy of such honor; I was two dayes & a half to see the Citty of Antwerp, where some Merchants knowing the Steward, prayed him to do them the honour, that they might bestow a dinner or supper upon us. There was striving who should have us, & they were all very joyful to hear of the good health of the Marquess of Au∣ret, doing me more honor then I expected. To conclude, we came back to the Marquess making good cheer, and within five of six daye I asked my leave of him, which he granted with great grief, and gave me an honest Present, and of great value, and made me be conducted by the said master of his house and two Pages, even to my house at Paris.

I have forgot to tell you, that the Spaniards have since ruined and demolisht his Castle of Au∣ret, sackt, pillagd, rifled and burnt all the houses, & Villages belonging unto him, because he wou••d not be of their side, in the slaughters and ruines of the Low Countries.