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A66951	The surgeons mate or Military & domestique surgery Discouering faithfully & plainly ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise as namely: wounds, apos fumes, ulcers, fistula's, fractures, dislocations, with ye most easie & safest wayes of amputation or dismembring. The cures of the scuruey, of ye fluxes of ye belly, of ye collicke and iliaca passio, of tenasmus and exitus ani, and of the calenture, with A treatise of ye cure of ye plague. Published for the service of his Ma. tie and of the com:wealth. By John Woodall Mr. in chyrurgerie.; Surgions mate, or A treatise discouering faithfully and plainely the due contents of the surgions chest	Woodall, John, 1556?-1643.; Woodall, John, 1556?-1643. Treatise faithfully and plainly declaring the way of preventing, preserving from, and curing of that most fearful and contagious disease called the plague.; Woodall, John, 1556?-1643. Treatise of gangrena, and sphacelos.	1617 (1617)	Wing W3421; ESTC R221201	349,679	432

therein for to make it pleasant in taste or without for a need you may well use it or the Lapis Medicamentosus dissolved into fair water maketh an excellent Lotion for the putrified gums Outward ●emedies for the S●urvy in gen●rall Touching good outward remedies for the cure of this grief bathes Fomentations with also good oyls and unguents cerates cataplasms or empla●ters are each necessary in their due times provided they be of comfortable ingredients namely those which minister warmth and nourishment to the diseased parts and open the pores obstructed all such I say are most fit provided they be alwaies applied very warm and the partie be laid and kept warm upon it Further if it be If swelling grow in any part a Lixivium is good Of what the Lixivium is made a swolne member then this following bathe to ●oment the member will be good namel● a Lixivium made of fresh water and ashes and being onely but reasonable sharp for too sharp of the ashes will over heat yea and excoriate this done and cleared boyl some hot hearbs flowres and seeds fitting therein such are Cammomile Mellilote Dill Wormewood Balme Rosemary Thyme Sage Bay-leaves Bay-berries Juniper berries Annis-seed Fennel Co●iander Carraway Dill seeds or the like these ingredients or those of them which may be had use and let them be boyled a little therein and either stupes of woollen or linnen clothes wet therein or put the ingredients into bagges after the decoction is made with them and the place well fomented therewith and so laid to sweat with some of the hearbs in the same bagges well wrung out and hot applied till the next dressing But if the disease proceed with stiffnes and hardnesse of the sinews then forbear the Lixivium I mean put no ashes thereto and make the decoction of the mentioned ingredients boyled in the broth of the beef-kettle in wine beer or water for a need adding some salt and likewise if you have it Linseed oyle neats-foot oyle sheeps-foot oyle or oyle of Almonds oyle of Camomile Dill or earth-worms of Bayes of Lillies or some one of them A bath of blood very good Also where you can have it a good bath of the blood of beasts either cows horses asses goats or sheeps blood is exceeding good The manner how to bathe in this bath of blood namely to put the legs of the Patient yea and his body too if it may be into a tub made fitting and the blood kept warm part thereof being still kept hot on the fire and renew therewith the bath still as it cooleth with the warm blood for some reasonable time this restoreth A bath of milk and comforteth mightily the decayed spirits Milk of it self is also good to be used in that kind where it may be had Of Oyles thereto Oyles good outward helps and what they be OYls good to anoint which are Oleum Chamamillae Laurini Anethi or Lumbricorum with à little Spike oyl oyl of Turpentine oyl of Nutmegs pressed out oyl of Peter oyl of Exitor or oyl of Juniper Much hard frication very beneficiall or one of the same mixed with them or some good Aqua vitae and to use strong frication with warm soft hands long continued helpeth much Vnguents What Vnguents are herein helpfull GOod Unguents to help these griefs in my opinion are every warm and comforting unguent in use in the Chirurgions chest but I have had especial trial of an Unguent the composition whereof Two principall Vnguents of soveraign vertue against the Scurvie shall be hereafter described which is named Contra Scorbutum as also of the Vnguentum Populeon I mean the same composition Valerius Cordus hath described for I find it to be very good but you may well say how doth he contradict himself which even now adviseth warming Unguents and presently reciteth Populeon for one which is known to be cold but though I have haste let me I pray thee answer for my self in that one point which I know to be a principal Arcanum in Many ●edicines 〈◊〉 shew that which in effect they are not healing not looked into many a medicine hath a seeming shew to be cold and yet doth contrary effects witnesse Quicksilver juice of Lemmons Vitriol oyl of Vitriol Salt-peter Allum Sorrel and divers others which I could recite all which may easily be proved either hot or cold by their several strong operations and effects which they perform as for example to beginne with Quicksilver it is affirmed What Quicksilver is in shew and in effect to be extreme cold of infinite Writers and his repercussive qualitie sheweth the same as also in repelling and cooleth hot tumours with also the varietie of cold diseases and contractions Podagrical and Chirurgicall procured thereby to divers Artificers which work much therewith as namely to Guilders Foilers of looking-glasses and the like Trades-men which sheweth the same to be cold It also sheweth it self to be hot diversly as namely in that it is so extream subtil and penetrative so invisible to enter the body per poros cutis and being in the body so volatil and busie so caustick and corrosive so extream Laxative so diaphoretick so diaveritick so mundificative so incarnative and so sigillative or siccatrizing as the like medicine by the art or wit of man was never found out juice of Lemmons was ever reputed a cold medicine prescribed and given daily by the Physicians The different vertue of the iuyce of Lemmons in burning and pestilential fevers and that with good reason and good successe even to this day and yet to that notable and cold and terrible disease of the Scurvie how excellent hath it been approved how then in these two recited medicines holds the old Axiom Similia conservantur similibus contraria contrariorum remedia sunt even as true as vox populi vox Dei or pepper is hot in the mouth and cold in the maw if I would desire truly to cool and temper the boyling of the bloud inwardly which I my self would take yea were it upon the safeguard of my own life I would take five or sixe drops of good oil A singu●a● and approved good medicine to temper the boiling of blood of Vitriol in a draught of fair water with a little sugar a drop or two of Rose-water and as much wine vineger mark well my words if thou knowest not these medicines they are worth knowing or ʒj of saltniter which is also called Lapis prunella in the like liquor and for want of the sugar Rose-water or vineger of it self or with the water onely for a need I have often proved them so true coolers that they have stayed the Hemoragie or bleeding at the nose the latter whereof shal To stop bleeding at nose good rules seldome fail if you by outward means proceed rationally by applying to the forehead cold and astringent things as also to the nape of the neck also

affirmeth it safe and good of his own Practise and M. Richard Wood a worthy Father in Chirurgery confesseth the same in small joynts to be good but not in the knee Note also it is convenient if the occasion of dismembring grow by reason of a Gangrene the body of the party and spirits not wasted before with long sicknesse to let go some reasonable quantity of blood in dismembring because it is supposed to be venomous but in a spent weak body who hath had a long pining disease preserve his blood and spirits as careful as if they were thine own and yet remembring this one rule which all the London Hospital Chirurgions hold there is more hope in a weak spent body then in a full body note further that if the legg be taken off above the knee there is the more danger also there is great care to be had to the great vein and artery namely that thou take them up and pierce them thorow and make strong ligature about them which must be speedily done if thou canst do it but at first I fear thou wilt miss yet be not discouraged nor stand too long to seek them but go on with like hope Also if the occasion of dismembring proceed of a Gangrene by reason of an inward cause it were requisite to take the member off four fingers above the Gangrene at the Least if the member will bear it and let the Patient have some cordial potion furthermore in dismembring where there be two bones as namely in the leg it is not amiss to set the Saw first on the outward part of the leg that both the bones might be cut at once for the lesse thou shalt shake the member the better and the more ease to the Patient moreover concerning the second The composition of M. GallesVaguent and the good use of it dressing M. Gall teacheth this unguent following if occasion be as a good remedy to swage pain and cause the Eskar to fall but for my part except pain did cause me I should never respect the hasting of the Eskar to fall for I am of opinion as I have said in other places that it is frivolous to hasten the fall of any Eskar whatsoever which Eskar was forced by caustick medicines and yet I deny not this or the like unguent may be found to be of good use to swage pain therefore I have set it down and it is as followeth ℞ Terebinthine ℥ ij Butyrir●ce●tis ℥ iiij Cera ℥ i ss Ung. Populeon lib. ss melt these together and it is made then being warmed dip plegents therein and apply them but in want of this ungue●t a good digestive of T●●ebinthine and the yolk of an egg is as good Erplastrum de minio mollified with a little oyl of Roses Ung. Basilicum or Arceus Liniment are likewise good remedies the rest of the cure differeth little from the ordinary cure of ulcers only a great care must be had that all your dressings be warm and keep the cold from the end of the stump as much as you can and chiefely from the end of the bones to which purpose warm oyl of Roses daily applyed to the ends thereof will do well further to foment it with a good Lixivium wherein is strong wine is good after some fourteen daies sometimes also it will do well to make one dressing with Aqua vi●●e wherein a stup hot wrung out of the same may be warm applyed to the grief and then warm clothes and convenient rowlings and sometimes also one dressing with dry lint or of soft tow is likewise good and sometimes unguentum mixtum viz. Basilicum Aegyptiacum ana partes aequal The compositi●● of the Cataplasme The defensative Cataplasme or stuff often mentioned is made of the ordinary restrictive powder prescribed in the chest mixed with the white of an egge and wine venegar the strongest restrictive of all is already set down but in ordinary fluxes in wounds Bole may serve very well Thus much for this time touching dismembring being according to mine own practise Of the Scurvy called in Latine Scorbutum The Preface Marine●s most subject to the Scurvy THis lamentable disease which hath so long and so fiercely assailed Saylers and Sea-men of all sorts more then Landmen It is strange in so many ages past that no one Chirurgeon of our countrey men hath out of his experience taken in hand sincerely to set down to posterities the true causes signes and cure thereof neither left any instructions caveats or experiences for the prevention or cure of the same yet it may be some may say the cure thereof is common and we have in our own countrey here many excellent remedies generally known as namely Scurvy-grasse Horse-Reddish roots Nasturtia Aquatica Worm-wood Sorrel and many other good means the truth is we have so but mark how far they extend onely to the Cure of those which live at home or else it may be said they also help some Sea-men returned from far who by the natural disposition of the fresh air and amendment of diet nature her self in effect doth the Cure without other helps as daily it is seen This thing therefore being so what should I spend my time in teaching that Method or those medicines to the Chirurgions Mate which will not be had at Sea neither if they could be had will suffice for the Cure thereof where the disease raingneth fiercely This Treatise most concerneth Sea-men Having therefore very small time I must constrain my self to go briefely to the businesse in hand namely to enform the Chirurgions Mate how he should demean himself to comfort his Patients at Sea in that most dangerous disease neither will I here strive to give the curious Reader other content then this that if he like it not let him amend it himself which I should heartily rejoyce to see any good man do knowing mine own weakness A learned Treatise befits not my Pen and to declare those good medicines which cannot be had at Sea is but time lost What the Disease called the Scurvy is Definition of the Scurvy and the nature thereof THE Scurvy is a disease of the spleen whereby it is sometimes wholly stopped sometimes onely distempered sometimes also appearing with hard Scyrros swellings beginning and shewing themselves in divers parts of the body but more particularly on the thighes and leggs causing them to seem of a Leady colour the sharpnesse of which infectious humor oft offendeth the mouth and gummes of the diseased and causeth the flesh thereof to rot and stink The names of the Disease The divers appellations thereof THe Scurvy is called of some Cathexia universalis of other Sceletyrbe and of some Stomacacen it is a Chronical disease not simple but compound of many other diseases The causes of the Disease FIrst the Disease comes as is said by obstructions of the spleen and by the thicknesse of the humour not the multitude Some judicious Writers do affirm