The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson [and in part by G. Baker] Whereunto are added three tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, and nerves. With large figures. ; Also a table of the bookes and chapters.

Ambroise Paré

Date:: 1649

Credit: The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson [and in part by G. Baker] Whereunto are added three tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, and nerves. With large figures. ; Also a table of the bookes and chapters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$theVORÇe ^/T Oreover, I will here Ihew to the readers the places where I have had means to learn the ^ IViArtofSiirgerie. for the better infiruding of the young Surgeon : andlirft în the year » • 1535. the great King Francis fent a great Armie to Tfe wiiz, to recover the Cittie and Caftles which the Marqucls of Guaji, Lieutenant-General of the Emperor had taken : where the high Gonflable of Fr4«cethegi’eatMafter,wasLievtenant-GeneraloftheArmie,and Monficr deColonel-Ge¬ neral of the Foot, of which I was then Surgeon. A great part of the Armie arrived in the Countrie of Suze-, wee found the enemie which flopt the paflage, and had made certain Forts, and Trenches info- much thaç to hunt them out and make them leav the place, wee were forced to fight where there were divers hurt and flain, as well of the one fide as of the other : but the enemies were conflrained ta retire andg« into theCaftle, which was auffed partly by one Captain R«,, who dimedwlth di- Of the enemie. vers ot the fouldiersof his companie upon a little Mountain; there where hee Ihot d-iredlv upon the enemies, hee receiv^ a {hot upon the ankle of his right foot, wherewith prefently hee fell tO the ground ; and faid then. Now is the Rat taken. I drelTed him, and God healed him. Wee entred the throng in the Citic, and pafîèd over the dead bodies, and fom which were not yet dead, wee heard them crie under our horfeVfeet, which made my heart relent to hear them. And truly Ï repented to have for- faken Faris to fee fo pitiful a fpeaacle. Beeing in the Citie, I entred into a ftable thinking toi loda mv own, and my raan]s horf, where I found four dead fouldiers, and three which were leaning again! the Hiflorie. wall, their faces wholly disfigured, and neither faw nor heard, nor fpoke : j and their clothes did yet flame with gun-powder which had burnt them. Beholding them with pittie, there happened to com an old Souldier, who asked mee if there were anie poffible means to cure them, I told him no • hee preftntly approached to them, and cut their throats without choler. Seeing this great ci ueltie 1 told him hee was a wicked man, hee anfwered mee that hee praied to God, that whenfbever hee fbould bee in fuch a cale, that hee might finde fom one that would doe as much to him, to the end that hee might notmiferablylanguifh. And to return to our former difcourf, the enenfle wasfummoned to render which they foon did, and went out, their lives onely faved, with a white ftaffin their hands ; the grcateft part whereof went and got to the Caftleof Villane, where there was about 200. Spaniards ; Monfier the Gonflable would not leav them behinde, to the end that the waie might bee made free. This Caille iâ fcated upon a little mountain, which gave great alTurance to them within, that one could not plaht the Ordnance to beat upon it, and were fummoned to render, or that they ihould bee cut in pieces ; which Bnve anfiw» they flatly refufed, making anfwer. That they were as good and faithful fervants to the Em- of the fool- peror, as Mounfier the Gonflable could bee to the King his mafler. Their anfwer heard,they made by force of arm,two great Gannons to bee mounted in the night with cords and ropes, by the Swiflers and Lanlquenets; when as the ill luck would have it, the two Cannons beeing feated, a Gunner by great negligence fet on fire a great bag of gunrpowder ; wherewith hee was burned together with ten dr twciv fouldiers ; and moreover the flame of the powder was a cauf of difeovering the Ar¬ tillerie, which made thcm,that all night they of the Caftle did nothing but ftioot at that place where they difeovered the two pieces of Ordnance,wherewith they Itil’d & hurt a great number of our people. The next daie early in the morning a Batterie was made, which in a few hours made a breach, which beeing made, they demanded to parlie with us ; but ’twas too late for them ; For in the mean time our siwrapime French foot leeing them amazed, mounted to the breach, and cuc them all in pieces, excepta puniOiineBt. fair young luftie maid of Fiedmount, which a great Lord would have kept and preferved for hini to keep him companie in the night, for fear of the greedie wolf. The Captain and Enfign Were takett alive, but foon after were hanged upon the gate of theCktie,to the end they might give example and fear to the Imperial Ibuldiers not to beefo ralhand foolifh,to bee willing to hold fuch places againtf fo great an Annie. Now all the faid fouldiers of the Gaflle, feeing our people comming with a moll vio¬ lent fork, did all their endevour to defend therafelvs, they kifd and hurt a great companie of our foul-' ^rs, with pikes, inuskets,and floncs,where the Surgeons had good flore of work cut out. Now at that time I was a frelb water fouldier, I had ncÆ yet ften wounds made by gun-foot at the firft drefling. It is CoonTeioF tnie,I had read in de in the firfl book ofWounds in General, the eighth Chapter, ^ that wounds made weapons oi fire did participate of Venenofitie, by reafon of the powder^ and for thek cure command’s to cauferizethem with oil of Elders ftalding-hot, in which fhould bee mingled a litde treacle 5 and not to faifibefore I would applie of the faid oil,knowing chat fuch a thing might bring to the patient great pain, I was willing to know firft, before I applied it, haw .tfie othe^ Surgeons did for the firft dreffing, which was to applie the ifaid oil the botteft that was pofCble” into the wounds, with tents and fetons, infomuefe that I took courage to do as they did. At lafi Î w^ted oil, and was conftfain«l in ftead thereof, to applie a digeftive of yelks of ^s, oil of rofts, and turpentine. In the night T could not fleep in quiet, fearing fom default in not cauterizing, that I fhould finde thofè td whom 1 had not ufed the burning-oil dead impoifbned ; which made mee rift yerie carliç to vifit them, f*P»ienreof wherc beyond my expeftation, 1 found thofe to whom I had applied my digeftivÆ medicine, • bold man’s to fecl little plain, and their wounds withoutinflammation or tumor, having refted rea<bi‘ happicfuccefs. nable Well that night : the other to whom was ufed the fâid burning-oil, I found them fcvc'»' ri(h, with great painand tumor about the edges of their wounds. And then I refblved with my fèlf,«6+ ver fb cruelly to burn poor men wounded with gun-fhot. Beeing at T'liurin, I found a Surgeon,who had the fame above all others, for the curing of wounds of gun-ihot, into whofo favor I found means to In- finuate my felf^ to have the receit of his B^lm, as hee. called it wherewith hee drefled wounds of that kinde, and hee held mee of the fpaceof two years, before 1 could poflihle drawthe Receit from him* In ihc end by gifts andprefentshee-gaveitmee, ivhichwascbB.i taboil young whelps new pupped, ia oU$

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