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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![1 ad minus- octo pollices contineat. “unum vertile Anglic^ ‘ a wrayste ’ imponatur.” 4 per anum. ffor wliy; oft tyme} ffistule in ano hath ri}t smale hole}, so pat som tyme pai shew no}t but pat per appereth bolnyng in pe moupes of para. Afterward is per 4 anoper instrument, pat is called ‘ Acus rostrata/ a snowted nedle, for it hath pe tone heued like a snowte, and in pe toper an y}e like a nedel by whiche predes ow to be drawen agayn by midde} of pe fistule, as it shal 8 be seid wzt/dn in his place. And it ow to be of siluer, as it is paynted; and it ow to be no gretter ne lenger in pe snowte pan as it is paynted, but it ow to be longer atte pe left, pat it contene in al 8 ynclies in lenghfe.1 IT pe 12 prid instrument is called ‘ tendiculum,’ and it ow to be made of boxe or of anojnr competent tree, nouper lenger ne gretter pan his shap is paynted. And it ow to haue an hole purgh in pe side, as it is peynted, 16 In whiche hole be per putte *2 in a wrayst,3 by midde^ of whiche wraiste in pe ouer ende shal be a litel hole purgh whiche shal be putte pe two ende} of grete prede four folde, goyng atte firste by pe towel4 and pe hole of 20 pe fistule; whiche prede is called ffrenum cesaris, and the whiche also goyng atuyx pe wraiste, in wraistyng pe skynne atuyx pe tewel & pe listule be faste constreyned aboue pe snowte of pe nedel, vnto pat kittyng be done. 24 ‘ Siringa ’ is an holow instrument by pe midde}, and it ow to be made of the shappe as it is peynted here, nouper gretter ne lenger, but euen after pe shappe as it is peynted here; ne haue it no}t but oon hole in pe neper 28 ende or smaller ende, as it is peynted here [see p. 10, Plates II and III]. 2 The words from here to the end of this page are reproduced in facsimile in Plate III. the grooved director, the dilator. the peg, [* leaf 144, back] the “ Syringe.’'](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31350409_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
