Treatises of fistula in ano, hæmorrhoids, and clysters / by John Arderne, from an early fifteenth-century manuscript translation. Ed., with introduction, notes, etc., by D'Arcy Power.
- John Arderne
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Treatises of fistula in ano, hæmorrhoids, and clysters / by John Arderne, from an early fifteenth-century manuscript translation. Ed., with introduction, notes, etc., by D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The cost of an operation. Prognosis as regards the duration of cure and the reasons thereof. [* leaf 143, back] The leech to be dressed soberly, to be clean in his person, to cultivate silence. one;- scarse askyngis settej? at not both |>e markette and the thing. Therfore for the cure of fistula in ano, when it is curable, aske he co?upetently, of a worthi man and a gret an hundred niarke or fourty 4 pounde, wzj) robe} and fee}1 of an hundred shillyng etTodis^3 tenne of lyfe by }ere. Of lesse men fourty pounde, or fourty marke aske he without fee} ; And take he no}t lesse J>an an hundred shillyngfs. ffor neuer in all my lyf 8 toke I lesse than an hundred shillyng for cure of that sekenes. ISTejierlesse do another man as hym junk better and more spedefulle. And }if the pacientes or thair frende} or seruaunt} aske by how moclie tyme he hopeth 12 to hele it, euermore lat the leche byliete j>e double )>at he supposeth to spede by half; that is }if the leche hope to hele ]?e pacient by twenty wekes—that is the comon course of curyng—adde he so many ouer. ffor it is better 16 that the terme be lengthed ]>an the cure, ffor prolonga- cion of the cure giffej) cause of dispairyng to the paciente} when triste to the leche is moste hope of lielthe. And }if the pacient considere or wondre or aske why that he 20 putte hym so long a tyme of curyng, sijje Juit he lieled hym by the half, answere he that it was for that the pacient was strong-herted, and suffrid wele sharp jungis, and that he was of gode complexion and liadde able flesshe 24 to hele; & feyne he othir causes pleseable to the pacient, ffor paciente} of syehe worde} are proude and delited. Also dispose a leche * hym that in clothes and othir apparalyngis be he honeste, no}t likkenyng hymself in apparalyng or 28 berying to mynistralle}, but in clotliing and beryng shew he the maner of clerkes. ffor why ; it semeth any dis¬ crete man y-cladde with clerkis clothing for to occupie gentil me?zne3 horde}. H Haue the leche also clene handes 32 and wele shapen naile} & clensed fro all blaknes and filthe. And be he curtaise at lorde} horde}, and displese he no}t in wordes or dedes to the gestes syttyng by ; here he many Jungis but speke he but fewe. IT For a wise man seith, 36 ‘ It semeth more to vse the eres than j?e tunge ’ ; And in an-ojlev place, * }if thou had bene stille thou had bene holden a philosophise.’ And whan he shal speke, be the worde} short, and, als mich as he may, faire and resonable 40](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31350409_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
