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Author: Vicary, Thomas, d. 1561.
Title: The surgions directorie, for young practitioners, in anatomie, wounds, and cures, &c. shewing, the excellencie of divers secrets belonging to that noble art and mysterie. Very usefull in these times upon any sodaine accidents. And may well serve, as a noble exercise for gentle-women, and others; who desire science in medicine and surgery, for a generall good. Divided into X. parts. (Whose contents follow in the next page.) / Written by T. Vicary, Esquire, chyrurgion to Hen 8. Edw. 6. Q. Mary. Q. Eliz.
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Print source: The surgions directorie, for young practitioners, in anatomie, wounds, and cures, &c. shewing, the excellencie of divers secrets belonging to that noble art and mysterie. Very usefull in these times upon any sodaine accidents. And may well serve, as a noble exercise for gentle-women, and others; who desire science in medicine and surgery, for a generall good. Divided into X. parts. (Whose contents follow in the next page.) / Written by T. Vicary, Esquire, chyrurgion to Hen 8. Edw. 6. Q. Mary. Q. Eliz.
Vicary, Thomas, d. 1561.
London: Printed by T. Fawcet dwelling in Shoo-Lane, at the signe of the Dolphin. 1651. And are to be sold by J. Nuthall, at his shop in Fleetstreet at the signe of Herculus Pillers, [1651]
Subject terms:
Human anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Surgery -- Early works to 1800.
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THE CONTENTS OF THIS Booke, with its severall Parts.
TO ALL THE VERTUOUS LADYES and GENTLEVVOMEN, of this Common-wealth of England, whose Goodnesse surpassing greatnesse, and desires to Exercise themselves (as nursing Mo∣thers) in the Art of Medicine and Surgery, (especially in the remote parts of this King∣dome) w ere is neyther Physitian nor Sur∣gion to bee had when odine Accidents happen; whereby the poorer sort of People many times perish for want of Advice.
A TABLE TO FIND the severall Contents of this Booke.
PART. I. Containing the Anatomie of mans Body, compiled by T. V. Esquire, for the use and be∣nefit of all unlearned Practitioners in the Art and Mystery of Chyrurgerie.
CHAP. I.
Of the Anatomie. CHAP. II. The Anatomie of the simple Members.
CHAP. III. The Anatomie of the compound Members, and first of the Head.
CHAP. IIII. In this Chapter is declred the sive things contayned within the Head.
CHAP. V. The Anatomy of the Face.
CHAP. VI. The Anatomie of the Necke.
CHAP. VII. The Anatomie of the Shoulders and Armes.
CHAP. VIII. The Anatomie of the Lungs.
CHAP. IX. The Anatomie of the Haunches and their parts.
CHAP. X. The Anatomie of the Thighes, Legges, and Feet.
For Practice. It is necessary to know what Letch∣craft and Chyrurgerie is, with their severall parts thereto belonging in the Theorick and Practick. Very usefull for young Practitioners. PART. II.
Letchcraft is Chyrurgerie; that is, to heale a man of all manner of Sicknesse and to keepe him whole, so farre as craft may.
Now will J speake of Wounds, which is the second part of Chyrurgerie.
Divers things very necessary for every Practitioner in Surgerie to have in a readinesse.
And first, for Instruments, viz.
2. For sodaine Accidents.
3. For Powders.
4. For Ʋnguents.
5. For Emplasters.
Of five Harbes which a good Chyrurgion ought alwayes to have.
Some Physicall observations tending to Physicke and Surgerie, and times convenient for letting of Blood.
To preserve Health.
For letting of Blood.
For Complexion.
For Age.
Time of the Yeare.
Time of the Moneth.
Time of the Day.
Dyet after Bleeding.
Good to—
Of the Nine Tastse.
Signes of Sicknesse by Egstion.
Signes of Life or Death by the Pulses.
Of the foure Humours.
1. Signes of Sicknesse by Blood.
2. Signes of Melancholy sicknesses.
3. Signes of Cholerick diseases.
4. Signes of Flegmatick diseases.
Certaine Observations for Women.
OF URINES. A briefe Treatise of Urines, aswell of Mans urine as of Womans, to judge by the Colour which betokeneth Health, and which betokeneth Weaknesse, and also Death. PART. III.
Of Bubbles resident in Vrine.
To know a Mans urine from a Womans, and a womans or mans from a Beast urine.
Hereafter followeth all the Vrines that be∣tokeneth Death, as well the Ʋrine of Man as of Woman.
Of VVounds▪ PART. IV.
A Definition of Wounds by their causes.
What Wounds are.
In the Curing of greene Wounds consists a five-fold scope or intention.
How a sicke man should Dyet himselfe being Wounded.
Of Wounds and their Cures happe∣ning in severall places of the Body.
And first, of infirmities incident to Souldiers in a Campe.
A rare secret, the which this Author did send to a very friend of his being in the Warres: the which helpeth all wounds eyther by Cut, Thrust, galling with Arrowes, or Hargu∣bush-shot, or otherwise.
Of wounds in the Head, with fracture of the Bone.
Of Wounds in the Head, where the Bone is not offended.
Of Concussions or Bruises, as well in the Head as any other place.
Of Wounds in the Necke and the order to be used in curing them.
Of Wounds in the Armes, and their impor∣tances and Medicines.
Of Wounds in the Legs, and their parts.
A Discourse upon old Wounds, which are not thorowly healed; with their Remedies.
A rare secret to heale Wounds of Gunshot, Ar∣rowes, or such like, in the Wars, when hast is required.
To heale a Wound quickly.
To heale a Wound quickly, that is in danger of any Accidents.
To stay the fluxe of Bloud in Wounds.
Another for the same.
A defence to be layd upon VVounds.
A secret Powder for wounds.
A Composition of great vertue against all Vlcers and Sores.
A Note of a certaine Spanyard, wounded in the head at Naples.
For to heale Hurts and VVounds.
To stanch the Blood of a Cut.
Another for the same.
For to staunch the blood of a VVound.
A healing Salve for any greene VVound.
The Lord Capels salve for Cuts or Rancklings comming of Rubbings: It is also a very good Lip-salve.
For to draw and heale a Cut.
A Salve for fresh Wounds.
A Salve that cleanseth a Wound and health it.
To kill dead Flesh.
A Playster for old Sores.
For a Canker, Fistula, Warts, or Wounds, new or old.
A Salv for any Wound.
To hlp the Ach of a Wound.
To heale Wounds without Plaister, Tent or Oyntment, except it e in the Head.
To heale a Wound that no scarre or print thereof shall be seene.
Of Plaisters▪ PART. V.
To make a resolutive Plaister of great vertue. This Plaister is to resolve Tumours and hardnesse, if it be laid thereon very hot, and when it cold, to lay on another, and this you shall doe till the hardnesse be resolved: and it is made in this order.
To make a maturative Plaister of great ver∣tue. This maturative doth open an Impo∣stume without Instrument and paine: And the order to make it, is this.
A Plaister called Bessilicon.
Another Plaister for the same.
The Mellilote Plaister.
The Musilage Plaister.
Another Plaister for the same.
A Plaister of Camphere.
A Spiced Plaster.
A Plaister called Apostolicum.
A Drying Plaister.
A Plaister for the Gowt Arteticke.
A Plaister to stake paine.
A Plaister against the coldnesse of the Nerves.
A good cold drying Plaister.
A red Plaister.
A blacke Plaister.
A blacke Plaister for old Sores.
A Plaister to dissolve hard things.
Another blacke Plaister for the same.
A Plaister against old Sores.
A cooling Plaister.
A Plaister to draw an Impostume.
A Plaister made for the Lord Marke de Wise.
The white Musilage Plaister.
A Spiced Plaister for the same.
An excellent Plaister for old Sores.
A Sparadrope for the same.
A very good drying Plaister.
Oliver Wilsons Plaister.
To make another Sparadrope.
To make the Mellilote Plaister.
To make a Seare-cloath.
To make a Plaister called Flowesse.
Another Plaister for the same.
To make the Playster Occinicione.
To make a Plaister Inplumhie.
A Plaister of Camphere.
To make a noble Plaister, that as soone as th Plaister is warme and laid to the place th paine will be gone, and it is called a Spic Plaister.
To make a speciall Plaister for all manner of cold Aches.
To make a Plaister that Sir William Farring∣ton let a Squire that was his Prisoner goe for, quit without ransome.
To make Coulman Plaister.
To make the Mellitote Plaister.
To make the Deaguloune Plaister.
A Plaister for all manner of Sores, and especi∣ally for all greene Sores.
Another for the same approved.
A Plaister for the Stitch.
A Playster for the Plurisie.
A Plaister for the Collick and Stone.
A Plaister for the Head-ache, and for hot Agues.
A hot drawing Plaister, called Flowis.
A Plaister called the vertue of our Lord.
A Plaister for weaknesse in the Backe.
A Plaister for any Ache, lamenesse, or Sciatica.
A Plaister for a sore Brest that must be broken.
A Plaister to heale it.
To make another Seare-cloath.
OF UNGUENTS. PART. VI.
The making of Oyntments, and first of Vnguentum Aegyptiacum.
To make Vnguentum Apostolorum.
Ʋnguentum Basilicum.
The golden Vnguent, called Vnguentum Aureum.
To make a drying Vnguent, called Vnguentum Calaminaris.
To make the white Oyntment, called Vn∣guentum Album Rasis.
To make Vnguentum Lytargerii.
To make Vnguentum Lypeione.
To make the Incarnative Vnguent.
Another Incarnative Vnguent.
To make Vnguentum Viride.
Another Ʋnguent.
A drying Vnguent.
An Vnguent against the Morphew.
An Vnguent called Rosye.
An Vnguent for Vlcers in the Arme.
An Vnguent against Cabes.
An Vnguent called the gift of God.
A precious Vnguent.
Another Vnguent against Cabes.
To make the greene Oyntment called Vnguen∣tum Viride.
An Vnguent to increase Flesh.
An Vnguent to heale the Serpigo.
An Vnguent for Fistulaes.
An oyntment for a greene Wound.
A cold Vnguent.
An Vnguent for a sawse-fleame Face.
An Vnguent for the Piles.
Another Vnguent for the Piles.
To make Vnguentum Lipcium.
To make Vnguentum Fanscome.
To make Vnguentum Dunsinnitive.
To make an Vnguent for the Skerby.
To make an Vnguent for Vlcers in Childrens faces.
To make the Sinnitive Oyntment.
To make an Vnguent for the Itch.
To make an Oyntment for the Morbus.
To make the Dunsymitive Vuguent.
To make Vnguentum Dulsum.
To make Vngnentum Basilicon.
To make a Mundifigitive.
To make Vnguentum Rosine.
To make Gibsons Incarnative.
To make a yellow Incarnative.
To make another Inearnative.
To make an Vnguent for the Piles.
Another fumetive Vnguent.
To make Vnguentum Foscovem.
An Oyntment for the Stone and Collick to bee made in May.
OF WATERS. PART. VII.
I. And first, of the Philosophers water.
2. The second Water is called Poetalis, et aqua Dulcedimus Occulorum, and is made in this manner following.
3. The vertue of the third Water.
4. The vertue of the fourth Water.
5. The vertue of the fift Water called Aqua Lasta.
6. To make the sixt water called Dealbantium.
7. This Water is called Aqua Consuitivae.
8. The eight Water called Aqua Huplaciam, the double Water.
9. Water of Pimpernell, the ninth water.
10. To make water of Sage, the tenth Water.
To make Aqua Vitae.
To make Aqua Magistralis.
A precious Water for Eyes that seeme faire, and yet be blind.
A Water that will helpe on, that is troubled with sore eyes being debarred of sight.
To make another Aqua Vitae.
The making of Waters in colours, and first of greene Waters.
Another greene Water.
Waters for old Vlcers.
A good Drinke for the Gummorium Passio.
A Water for old Vlcers in the Armes.
A Water for a Canker.
A Femitorie Water.
A Water of Rosemari
Water of Verven.
A Locion for a sore Mouth.
A Water for a sore mouth.
A compound Water.
Behly Water.
A good Barley water for all Diseases of the Lungs, or Lights.
A good Drinke for the Pox.
A very good Drinke for the Cough.
A restorative made of the Herbe Rosa Solis, with other things, but they must bee gathered in June, or July.
How to make Doctor Stevens precious Water, which Dr. Chambers and others, made tryall of and did approve the vertue of it.
THE Vertue and Excellencie of the English Bath of BATHE in England. Written by WILLIAM TURNER, Doctor of Physick. Collected and published for the Bene∣fit and Cure of the Poorer sort of People, who are not able to goe to the Physitians. By WILLIAM BREMER, Practitioner in Physick and Chyrurgerie. PART. VIII.
Certaine Rules to bee obferved in Dyet for all them that will enter into any Bath, or drinke the water thereof.
Of Herbes, and Drugs. Hereafter followeth divers Medicines, Remedies, and Cures to heale divers Dis∣eases curable, by the grace of God; as also the Nature and property of certaine Herbes, Plants, and Drugs, belonging thereunto. PART. IX.
And first of Marte Mylletare, to stop the Flux of the body.
The vertue of certaine Herbes, and Drugs.
The excellent vertues of Cardus Benedictus.
A good Drinke to strengthen the heart and all the members, if a man drinke halfe an Egge shell full of it morning and evening, with as much good wine.
A speciall Medicine to cause sleepe.
A discourse as concerning Cornes in the feet, or else-where with their remedies.
Of Medicines, Remedies, and Cures of divers Diseases of severall kinds; As also the making of Powders, and Plaisters, &c. PART. X.
The cause of our Sciatica, and how yee helpe it.
For Hoarsnesse.
If a man stand in feare of the Palsie.
A Medicine for the Goute.
Stubbes Medicine for the Goute.
Another Plaister for the Goute.
Another for the same.
For a pricke of a Thorne, or any other thing.
A Remedy for burning and Scalding.
To kill a Tetter or Ring-worme.
For a winde or a Collicke in the belly.
Against the Shingles.
To heale a wound in ten dayes, as by proofe hath beene seene.
For ache in the Backe.
To heale in foure dayes the scalding with wa∣ter, or any other liquor, without Plaister or Oyntment.
To heale the Itch.
To heale Sores or Tetters.
For the hardnesse of Hearing.
An easie Remedy for the Tooth-ache.
For the swelling in the Throat.
To cause a Womans speedy deliverance.
To make a womans Milke increase.
For the Rickets and weaknesse of the limbes in Children.
To fasten the Gums or loose Teeth.
For one that cannot hold his Water.
For the Dropsie made for the Queen, by D. D. Adryan.
For the stinging of Waspes and Bees▪
For the falling downe of the Tuell.
For the swelling of the Legges.
For the Canker in the mouth.
To make the Face faire and the Breath sweet.
A Remedy for a red face or a red nose.
A Remedy to qualifie the Coppered Face.
A speciall good dyet for all fiery Faces.
An easie Remedy to make the Teeth white▪
To take away the stinking of the mouth.
A Remedy for sore Eyes.
A proved Medicine for the bleeding at the Nose, called the Ladie Maries Medicine.
Against a stinking Breath.
For an evill breath.
For the Head-ache, and clensing of the same.
To heale a swolne Face, that is hurt by reason of some strange Scorching.
To make an aking Tooth fall out of himselfe.
To kill Lice and Nits in the Head.
To remedy or to helpe Blood-shotten eyes com∣ming by any Rheume, Fluxion, or such other like cause.
For the Tooth-ache.
To take away the Tooth-ache.
Against the Crampe.
A Medicine to purge the Head.
A Medicine for a scald Head.
For the Head-Ache.
For paine of the Head.
For deafenesse in the Eares.
To make Honey of Roses, called Mel Rosarum.
Another making thereof.
For the Pockes.
A true Medicine for the Jaundies.
For the Liver that is corrupted and wasted.
For heate in the Liver.
Remedies for the Collicke.
Another for the same.
A most excellent Medicine for the Collicke and Stone, with other vertues.
For the Collicke and Stone.
A Powder for the Collicke and Stone.
A speciall Remedy for the Stone.
A Powder for the Stone.
To make the Stone slip downe the narrow passa∣ges betweene the Kidney and the Bladder.
A Posset drinke against the Stone.
To make haire grow.
For to take away Haire.
To make a barren woman beare Children.
To make a woman have a quicke Birth.
For all manner of Lamenesse or swellings.
For to stay the Laxe or Fluxe.
For the sweating Sicknesse.
For him that pisseth Blood.
For the Canker in the Mouth.
A powder for the same.
To know the Fester and Canker.
For a Canker in the body.
For a Canker in a womans Pappes.
A good powder for the Canker.
To kill the Canker or Marmole.
For the Canker in the Mouth.
To make a red Water to kill the Canker.
To take away the Canker.
A powder for the Canker.
A good Medicine for the Canker and Sores.
For a Canker old or new, or Marmole.
For the Canker.
For a Canker in a mans body, and to save the man.
For the Head-ache.
For the Head-ache, and Tooth-ache.
A Drinke for the Head-ache.
For the Head-ache.
For the Head-ache.
To cleanse the Head.
For the Head-ache comming of the sto∣macke.
For Ache in the hinder part of the Head.
A principall Medicine for the Head.
For a man that is diseased in the Liver and Spleene.
A Drinke to be used after this Oyntment▪
A Plaister for the Spleene.
A Drinke for the Spleene.
To dissolve the hardnesse of the Spleene.
A soveraigne Medicine for the Spleene, and to clense the body.
For Ache in the Backe.
To stay the Backe, and helpe him that consumeth.
To take away the paine of the Reynes of one that is low brought.
For Ache in the Backe and Legges.
For the Bladder and the Reynes.
A Plaister for the Reynes.
For all Diseases in the Backe.
For paine in the bladder, and to make it whole for ever.
Against running of the Reynes.
A Syrope for the Backe.
Remedies to provoke Menstruum Mulieris.
Remedies to stop Menstruum Mulieris.
To stop white Menstruum and red.
Another for the white
The vertue of Fearne.
To take away heate and inflamation of a Member.
A Locion for a sore Mouth.
A preparative.
To make Vergent milke by D. Yaxley.
A comfortable Powder for the Heart.
A Remedy that breaketh the Stone.
Another remedy for the Stone, and to cause the voydance of Vrine.
A proved Medicine to avoid the Vrine that hath beene long stopped.
A very good water for the stone proved.
To breake the Stone.
Doctor Argentines Medicine for the Stone.
Divers Medicines for the Stone and Stran∣gulion.
Excellent Remedies for the Stone in the Bladder, and to provoke Vrine.
For the Stone in the Reynes, or Bladder.
An Injection for the Stone.
For any evill in the Bladder.
A Powder to breake the Stone.
To ease the paine of the Stone.
Against the new Ague, by Doctor Langdon.
For an Ague. By Doctor Turner.
A very good Drinke for an Ague. if one shake.
For a cold Ague.
A Plaister to take the Ague or any other ache out of a Womans Brest in the time of her Child-bearing, if it come.
To kill the Paulsie.
A remedy for the Dropsie.
Against stopping of the Pipes.
Against Hoarsenesse.
For the yellow Jaundise.
For Wormes in the Bellie.
An approved Remedy for a Woman that hath her Throwes before her time.
A Powder for the Strangury.
For the Collicke and Stone.
For a Megrim in the Head.
For the Tooth-ache.
For a sore Brest.
For a sore eye that burneth and is watrie.
For to stoppe the Bloody Fluxe.
A Remedy for a Fellon.
A Medicine well proved for the Megrim.
For to heale a sors Eye, hurt with the small Pockes.
For a sore Eye with a Pinne or a Web.
For a sore Eye that tcheth and pricketh.
For a Sciatica or Ache in the Bones.
For Sore Eyes.
To stoppe a great Laske.
To cause one to make Water.
For the Wind Collicke.
For to make a Water for the same.
For to bind on from the Laske.
For to skinne a sore Finger.
For a vehement Cough in young Children.
For a broken Head.
For Chilblaines in the Feet or Hands.
To kill the Tooth-ache, or a Ring▪worme, or a Tetter.
For a Stitch.
For an Ache or a Bruise.
To make white Teeth.
A Medicine for a swelling in the Cheek.
To make a Perfume suddenly in a Chamber where a sicke man lyeth.
To make a cleere voyce.
A Medicine for the Mother.
A Medicine for a Stitch or Bruise.
For the bloody Fluxe.
Remedies for the Itch.
To kill Lice or Itch.
To cure the Crampe.
For a paine or swelling in the Privie parts.
Remedies for Burning or Scalding.
Remedies for the Piles.
A Remedy for the Cappes.
To kill a Tettr or Ringworme.
Approved remedies for the Shingles.
For the Collike and gripings in the Belly.
A Plaister for te same.
For a Scurffe in the Body.
A Remedy for a wild running Scab.
For a Timpany.
For one that is in a Consumption.
A Medicin for one that is broken.
For the shrinking of the Sines.
For the staying of the flux.
A Medicine for a sore Thrat.
For weakenesse in the Back.
For the Carbunckle or Impostume in the Head.
To take away Pock-holes, or any spot in the face.
For faintnesse in the Stomacke, or the Morphew.
A good Fumigation for the French Poxe▪ confirmed.
Pilles against Morbo.
To make your Drinke.
To make your Bisket.
A Receipt, and a Soveraigne Dyet for the French Pox▪ Proved.
The order of your Fare.
A marvailous Secret to preserve a man from the Plague, and hath bin proved in England, of all the Physitians, in that great and vehe∣mnt Plague in the yeare 1•48. which rept through all the World: and the other in the yeere 1625. and there was never any which used this secret, but hee was per∣served from the Plague.
A soveraigne Drinke to preserve one against the Plague or Pestilence.
Another Preservative against the Plague.
The Lady Gath, her Medicine against the Plague.
An excellent Antidote against the Plague or Poyson.
An excellent Preservative against the Plagu.
A good Drinke to be used to those that are infected with the Plague.
How to breake a Plague sore.
A Prayer.