The Praeface.

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❧ The discriptione, and originalle of Chyrurgerye, and what the operatione of Chyrur∣gerye is. Cap. 1.

❧ Of the prognostication or iudgement of woundes Chap. 2.

❧The tokens howe to knowe which partes of the bodye are wounded Cap, 3.

❧ Instructione, how to give a certayne reporte of all woundes whatsoever before the ma¦gistrates. Cap. 4.

❧ Of the necessitye, and vtilitye, of the extractione or drawinge forth of all strange thinges. Cap. 1.

❧ Howe that a Chyrurgiane aptly & fitlye to dra∣we a bullet out of the bodye, ought to consider their difference, & the nature of the par∣te, in the which it is shot. Chap. 2.

❧ The bullets, & all other straunge things ought in the first dressinge to be drawne forth, soe farre as it is possible to be done: & of the meanes how to effecte the same. Chap. 3.

❧How we ought to drawe forth those bullets which sticke fast in the bones, or in the iunctures or ioyne∣tes of the same: alsoe what we ought to note whe∣nas the foresayed bones are crushed, & beaten to peeces. Chap. 4.

❧ How that the Chyrurgiane ought not be to curi∣ous in searchinge out the bullet. Cap. 5.

❧Of the tokens, throughe the which, we shal kno∣we the fractures, of the sculle. Cap. 1.

❧ Of the counter fissure, in the bones of the heade. Chap. 2.

❧ What Fractures of the heade we ought to trepane and wherfore we must tre∣pane them. Chap. 3.

How longe we ought to tarrye, before we beginne to trepane, and of the places which in trepanin∣ge we must chuse, or eschewe. Chap. 4.

❧ What qvantitye, or vvhat bignes of the bo∣ne in trepaninge vve must take out Chap. 5.

❧ Of the māner & methode hovve to trepane vvell, and artificiallye. Chap. 6.

❧ What sowinge is, and the vse therof, and in what impedimentes she is necessarye, and in what partes. Chap. 1.

What we ought to consider in the suture, and so win∣ge of a wounde. Chap. 2.

What is necessarye vnto the sowinge of a wounde, and howe we ought convenientlye to doe it Chap. 3.

The kindes and differences of sowinge, or sutures, the the time, and the methode, or rule to take thē away. Chap. 4.

❧How we ought to thrust in agayne the guttes, and the nett, which is suncke out of the bellye. Chap. 5.

❧ Of the stitchinge of the bellye which we call, Gastroraphia Chapter. 6.

❧Of the generall way te open Apostemations. Chap. 1.

Of the tumefactions, or swellinges called, Ateromata, Steatomata, and Melicerides. Chap. 2.

❧The manner how to cauterize, & make an insci∣sione in the vleerations of the brest, called Empiema. Chap. 3.

Howe that we must make the Paracentese, to drawe awaye the water out of the bellyes of those which are troubled with the dropsye. Chap. 4.

How that we shall cure the water burst, called Her∣nia aquosa. Chap. 5.

Of the Polipus. Chap. 1.

❧Of the haremouthe, or splitted and cloven lippes. Chap. 2.

Of the vlceratione, and excrescence of the gummes, called Paroulis, and Epoulis. Chap. 3.

❧Of the retentione of the tūge, which of the Greec∣kes was called, Anciloglossum, and we nowe call it tungetyed: And of the vlceration vnder the tunge, which of the Greeckes is cal∣led Batrachos, & of our moderne Physicions Ranula. Chap. 4.

❧Howe we ought to cauterize, cutt of, or bynde, and tye, the pallate, or Vvula of the mouth. Chap. 5.

Of the swellinge of the Almondes, and of the vl∣cerations of the same. Chap. 6.

Howe we ought to drawe, thrust out, and cut, of the teeth. Chap. 7.

❧Wheron we must consider, when as we desire to open a vayne, or phlebotomize. Chap. 1.

❧How we ought convenientlye, to make an aper∣tione in the vayne. Chap. 2.

❧Wheron we ought to marke, after the thruste, & apertione of the vayne, and when the bloode issueth therout. Chap. 3.

❧Of the number of vaynes, & arteryes, which com¦monlye, vse to be opened in mans bodye. Chap. 4.

Of the Arteriotomia, or apertion of the Arterys, or hartvaynes. Chap, 5.

❧ Of the swellinge Aneurisma, and of the mea∣nes howe to binde, and cut of the same. Chap. 6.

❧Of the Cirsotomia, that is, of the manner, howe we ought to cutt of the vari∣ces. Chap. 7.

❧Of the Horseleeches of there vse, & howe we may applye them. Chap. 8.

❧Of Boxes, and howe we may applye them. Chap. 9.

Of the Caries, and corruptione of the bones. Chap. 1.

Of the Fistel of the Fundament. Chap. 2.

❧How we ought to extracte, & drawe forthe little infantes out of theire mothers bodye, which of them∣selves can not be borne. Chap. 3.

❧VPpon what occasione, the externall partes as Ar∣mes, and legges are, and must be extirpated, or cutt of and in what place it must be do∣ne. Chap. 4.

How we ought to doe the extirpatione, or sawinge of, of a ioyncte and how we may stopp the bloode, after we shall have layed downe the Patient. Chap. 5.

How we shoulde extirpate, the superfluous, & corrup∣tede fingers, & separate those which are growen, & conioynede together Chap. 6.

❧What a Cauterye is, & of the Kindes, & differen∣ces therof. Chap. 1.

Of the Invention, and of the vse of the Cauteryes, and to what disseases, and one what places, they must be applyed. Chap. 2.

❧Of the Potentialle Cauteryes, & how we ought to make them. Chap. 3.

The manner howe we ought to applye these Cau∣teryes. Chap. 4.

Of the transforation, or seton, and of the manner how we ought to apply it. Chap. 5.

❧ What the Ligamentes or Circumvolutiones are their matter, quallitye, forme, and quanti∣tye. Chap. 1.

❧Of the kindes, & differences of the ligamentes. Chap. 2.

❧ Of the Rules, & generall Instructions, wheron we must consider, in all Rowles, & Ligatures Chap. 3.

❧Howe we ought to tye the Ligament & agayne make loose the same. Chap. 4.

❧How we shall dresse the broken Armes, hippes, and legges. Chap. 5.

Of the situation, and of the constitutione or collocatione of those partes, one the which the forsayed Opera∣tione must be effected. Chap. 5.

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