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Author: Arcaeus, Franciscus, 1493-1573?
Title: A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body with other precepts of the same arte, practised and written by that famous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in phisicke & chirurgery: and translated into English by Iohn Read, chirurgion. Whereunto is added the exact cure of the caruncle, neuer before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Iohannes Ardern. And also the description of the emplaister called dia chalciteos, with his vse and vertues. With an apt table for the better finding of the perticular matters, contayned in this present worke.
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Print source: A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body with other precepts of the same arte, practised and written by that famous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in phisicke & chirurgery: and translated into English by Iohn Read, chirurgion. Whereunto is added the exact cure of the caruncle, neuer before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Iohannes Ardern. And also the description of the emplaister called dia chalciteos, with his vse and vertues. With an apt table for the better finding of the perticular matters, contayned in this present worke.
Arcaeus, Franciscus, 1493-1573?, Read, John, surgeon., Arderne, John, fl. 1307-1370., Galen.
Imprinted at London: By Thomas East, for Thomas Cadman, 1588.
Alternate titles: De recta curandorum vulnerum ratione. English
Subject terms:
Wounds and injuries -- Treatment -- Early works to 1800.
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To my very good & louing friends, Iohn Bannister Gentlemam, Maister in Chi∣rurgerie, and practitioner in Phisicke. William Clowes, and William Pickering Gentle∣men, and Maisters in Chirurgerie, Ihon Reade wisheth prospe∣rous successe in your doe∣ings, health of body, & after this life eter∣nall felicitie.
The first Preface to the friendlie Reader.
Aluarus Nonnius, to the renowmed preacher Benedict Aria Montanus.
A Complaint of the abuse of the noble Arte Chirurgerie.
The forme or figure of an instrument, seruing for the cure of the distort foote, with the rtaining to the same. In Cap. 13. Lib. 2. Fol. 66.
The tvvo bookes of Fran∣ciscus Arceus, Doctor of Phisicke and Surgerie, concer∣ning the right order of curing or wounds, and of other precepts of the same Arte.
introduction
book 1
¶ Of the woundes in the head which happenth as well by incision as by contusion, which neuerthe∣lesse haue not perced beyond Pericraniū or Almo∣crati Cap. 1.
¶ Annotations vpon the first Chapter.
Of contusion with fracture of the bone, without any apparant wound. Cap. 2.
The Annotation of the second Chapter.
¶ Of the fracture of the skull Chapter. 3.
¶ The Annotation of the third Chapter.
Of the vse of the Trepan or Percer. Cap 4.
¶ Annotacion of the fourth Chapter.
¶ Of woundes made in the head by incision. Cap. 5.
¶ Annotacion of the fifth Chapter.
Of Contusions in the heades of Infantes and Children Cap. 6.
Annotations of the sixt Chapter.
Of curing wounds in the face. Cap. vij.
Annotations of the vij. Chapter.
The second booke.
Of wounds in the brest, Cap. i.
Annotations of the first Chapter of the sconde Booke.
¶ Of the curing of fistalaes which are woont alwaies to bee left in the woundes of the brest ill healed, whereof it commeth to passe that the patientes doe fall into a wa∣sting of the lungs, and the feuer Hectica or consumption. Cap. ij.
¶ A Decoction or Apozema, for the wounds of the brest and Lungs, and for those that are in a consumpcion.
Annotations of the second Chapter.
Of the curing of the Canker happening in womens breastes. Cap. 3.
Annotations of the third Chapter.
Of wounds in the bellie and the parts thereof, with penetra∣cion and without, Cap. 4.
Annotations of the fourth Chapter.
Of wounds, simple and compound, Cap. 5.
Annotations of the fifth Chapter.
Of vlcers, and of the cure of the same. Cap. 6.
Annotations of the vi. Chapter.
Of hollow vlcers and their cure. Cap. 7.
Annotations of the vij. Chapter.
Of the vlcers in the head which grow either of a scirrose hard swelling like kernels; or by reason of the French poxe, with the corruption of the bone. Cap. 8.
Annotations of the viij. Chapter.
Of Curing the french poxe. Chapter 9.
Annotations of the ix. Chapter.
The order of curing the French poxe, by fumiga∣tion or perfume. Cap. 10.
Annotations of the 10. Chapter.
Of the order of curing the French poxe with the Docoction of Guaicum. Cap. 11.
Annotations of the xi. Chapter.
chapter 12
Annotations of the xij. Chapter.
Of the curing of a distort foote of a childe, lame from his natiuitie. Cap. 13.
An example of the wounds in the head. To the healing. Cap. 14.
An example of Barriga. Cap. 15.
An example of a certaine familier friend of Lodouike Zapata. Cap. 16.
A generall rule for the Phisition and the Surgion.
A treatise of the Caruncle or Carnositie: growing in the yarde, or necke of the Bladder.
introduction
The signes and tokens of the Caruncule.
To know the Caruncle from the stone.
The way of curing the Caruncle.
Heere beginneth a treatise of the Fistula, in the fundament, or other places of the body, and of Impostumes causing Fistulaes, and of the office pertaining to the Chirurgion: with certaine other things.
Prologus. Anno Domine. 1349.
Of Astumes in ano, causing Fistulae, and of the Cure of them. Cap. j
Of the definition of a Fistulae, and the pla∣ces that it is bred in, and whether it is curable or not. Cap. 2.
Of the cure of the Fistulae in ano. Capter. 3.
Another manner of working in the same Fistulae, and the cure, with diuers examples. Cap. 4.
Of Bubo within the fundament, and the cause whie it is vncurable. Chapter 5.
Of the Fistulae in the fingers, and hard∣nesse of the cure of it. Cap. 6.
Of the Fistulae in the lower ioynts of the fingers and in the legges, knees, feete and anckles, with corruption of the bones and hardnesse of the cures. Cap. vij.
Of the maner of the cure of one that had the Fistulae in the inner part of his legges a∣boue the anckle. Cap. viij.
A treatise of Apostumes in the bowing of the knee disposed to Fistulae. Cap. ix.
Of the manner of a full harde cure in swelling of a mans arme. Cap. 10.
Of man that had his legge swollen, the which I cured on this wise. Cap. 11.
Of the curing of a man that was smitten on the shin bone. Cap. 12.
Of the manners of Marmolles, and the cure of them, Cap. 13.
Of the properies of Vitrioll, j. Attra∣mentum. Cap. 14.
Of the properties of Allumen. Cap. 15.
Of the properties of Verdigrece. Cap. 16.
Of the properties of Arsnicke and Auripigmentum. Cap. 17.
Of the properties of Licinm. Cap. 18.
Of the making of Pulueris sine Pari. Chapter. 19.
Of the making of Sanguis Veneris, and the working of it. Cap. 20.
Of the making of Salus Populi, and the working thereof. Cap. 21.
Emplaistrum Nerbon. Cap. 22.
Of the properties of Wallworte, and the making thereof. Cap. 23.
The making of Valence of Scabiose, or Matfellon. Cap. 24.
The making of Valence of wormewood. Cap. 25.
Pilles or pouder of Antioche.
To drawe out Iron or scales of bones, thornes and such like.
Of Molifiyng medicines.
Vnguentum de Palma, with other Vnguent and pouders Con∣solidatiue and Sigillatiue.
Emplaisters for Marmolles and Vlcers.
Vnguentum Arabicum.
Flos Vnguentorum.
chapter
Certaine Balls which are vsed to cure vicers in Ano.
The discription of an Em∣plaister called Dia Chalciteos, translated out of Galen his first booke of the composition of medicines, The 4. Chapter.
Iohn Reade Chirurgion, to the friendlie Reader.
The othe of Hippocratus which he gaue vnto his desiples and scollers, which pro∣fessing Phisicke and Chirurgerie, is very worthie to be obserued and kept faithfullie, of euerie true and honest Artests, althought he himselfe were but a heathen man, and without the true knowledge of the liuing God, yet for his noble and excellent skil in Phisicke and Chirurgerie, he ought not to be forgotten of vs his posteritie, but to be had in an hono∣rable remembrāce for euer.
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