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 leech should have also a good stock of merry tales, and should most strictly keep his own counsel about the patient. The names of the instruments used in the operation . for fistula: the probe, my lyf I haue sene but fewe laborante in Jus vice lieled in any sikenes: fierioie it is to be-war to wise men fiat fiei entremette no}t with sich. ffor whi; fie wise man seifi, ‘ All fiinges ar hard to a waik liert man, for J)ai 4 trow euermore yuelle} to be ny}e to )iam; fiei drede euermore, fiai sufire no j^ingis, fiai are eue?unore vnstable and vnwise ; fierfore a versifiowr seifi of tham, ‘ Quomircus 1 nil pacior paciendi me tenet horror ’: fiat is fiof-al I 8 snffre no-Jung, vgglynes of suffryng holdeth me. H Also it spedetli J)at a leche kunne talke of gode tale} and of honest that may make fie pacientes to laugh, as wele of the biblee as of other tragedie} ; & any othir fiingis of which it 12 is no}t to charge while} J>at fiey make or induce a li}t hert to fie pacient or fie sike man. If Discouer neuer the leche vnwarly the couwselle} of his paciente}, als wele of men as of wymmen, ne2 sette no}t oon to anofier at no}t, fiof-al 16 he haue cause, fiat he be no}t gilty of courcsell; tfor ^if a man se fie hele wele anofier mawnes counsel he wil trist better in fie. Many Jhnges, forsofie, bene to be kepte of a leche, wifioute fiese fiat ar seid afore, fiat may no}t 20 be noted here for ouer moche occupying. But it is no}t to dout fiat if fie forseid be wele kepte fiat-ne fiai shal giffe a gracious going to fie vser to fie h^te of worship and of wywnyng 3; for Caton seij), ‘ Virtutem primam puta 24 esse compescere lingua?u’: The first vertu trow you to be to refreyne J>e tong. Aftur al Juse it houetli that he knowe ]>e names of fie instrumentis J)at perteneth to fie cure of J?e fistule, withoute whiche a leche may no}t wele 28 spede hym. Of whiche J>e first is called ‘ Sequere me ’ ifollow me’—whose shap is shewed wher fie instrumente} ar paynted [fig. 1]. And it is called 1 Sequere me ’ for it is fie first instrument pertenyng to fiat werk; for a lech 32 ow for to serclie fier-with fie way of fie fistule whider it gofi, whefier by fie midde} of longaon or no}t. And it ow to be made on fie same maner as wymmen vsefi in fiair heuede},4 and of fie same metal; and it ow to be 36 smal fiat it may li}tly be plied & replied. And be \>e heuede} 5 als little as fiai may wele be, elle} fiai mi}t no}t wele entere fie moufi of fie fistule for fie streitnes of it. 2 MS. te. 1 Quamvis. 3 quia ea exercenti ad culmen honoris et lucis aditum prsebeant generosuin. 4 in capiti- bus. 5 capita.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31350409_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
