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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. : Whereunto is added the exact cure of the Caruncle, never 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 Johannes Ardern. And also the discription of the Emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with his use and vertues. With an apt Table for the better finding of the perticular matteris, contayned in this present worke. / Practised and written by that famoous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in Phisicke & Chirurgery: and translated into English by John Read, Chirurgeon.

  • Francisco Arceo
Date:
1588
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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. : Whereunto is added the exact cure of the Caruncle, never 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 Johannes Ardern. And also the discription of the Emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with his use and vertues. With an apt Table for the better finding of the perticular matteris, contayned in this present worke. / Practised and written by that famoous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in Phisicke & Chirurgery: and translated into English by John Read, Chirurgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The firfc Preface to the friendlie Reader, Lthough(as I doubt not) eueric good ma will interpret this worke to none other ende, but to be for the cofort of them that are wounded, fore, and difeafed,and will efteemt no lefle of mce,by whorne they profite , then they will be glad toreceaue the benefits* Yet forafinuch Ll/> ._I . | . 1 /» t' . w **ivi anj ^uuu iLicntes 4 io cnoici. proLCi^^ Tnarin atrniy labour S'and fiudies,I neuerentended or yet do entetferto fa- tiffic the mindcs of any fuch picke-faultes, whtth will doe nothing but detraff and ~*.u— ^ » -« - ^ fendeth the nbfeS ofthi focuer it be otherwitibsi But as M . Huntdft in h& Ejpiffle%o M, Banncffcr faide deth on her heeles whe/he goeth abroad* And as the deafe cannot difcerne the fweetnefie of Muficke :fp the ignorant cannot taoke ddo the excellencie of knowledge. For there is in thefe daies rriany that -aredo wilfull in their wicked- neue,that being reproued for their ignorance, fticke not to threaten with woords,fworde$,Curtelafes, and Daggers, to wounde , cut, flafli , yea and kill filch good men who are painefull ftudients and labourers in the Arte* As I red of that good man Maifter John Hall of Maid- ftone,whp although he were a fkilfull man, and of exceL lerttWrttfe in the Arte of Chirutgeriey yet for fpeakin** againft thedeceiptfull forcery ofone Robart Harris, in Am doth declarein]his,exportations* < * And