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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![To be taken to the oper¬ ating room. Advice to patient at [* leaf 67] time of oper¬ ation to be brave and obedient. Patient to be in a good light; position to be adjusted. The leech’s mate to be told what to do. The rectum to be explor¬ ed with a linger. [Cf. frontispiece] The fistula to bedeemed incurable if the rectum is perfor¬ ated. acorded in al J?ings, pan be pe pacient ledde to a place made redy Where pe lech schal do pe mynysteryng of cure. And all men amoued away out-take one or tuo, pat pe lech will liaue with hym to his helping, ouper of 4 his owne men or of oper; pan sey lecli pus to pe pacient, reward1 yhadde to pe person of pe pacient. IT ‘ Witte 30ur gentilnes and 30111’ hi^nes, and also 30m' godeliertynes, pat pe gracious perfeccion * of pis cure ow 8 not only to be recced as now to pe possibilite of my gode bisynes, bot also to 3our gode and abydyng pacience. IT And for-alsmich be it no^t liidde to 30W pat if 3e be vnobedient and vnpacient to my commandyngs, lustyng 12 pe tyme of wirchyng, 3c may falle in-to a ful gret perile or tary longer pe effecte of pe cure. Therfor bep-war, For he pat is warned afore is no3t bygiled. Paynful things passep sone when at the next folowep glorious 16 helthe.’2 IT pise things yseid, be pe pacient putte vp-011 a bedde bifore a l^t Wyndow, and be he putte after pe maner of pe sekenes pat is if pe hole3 of pe fistule be in pe lefte side lye he 011 pe lefte side. And if pai be 20 in the r^t side vp-on pe r^t side, or if pai be to-ward rigebone3 lie he pan wide opne bope his legge3 or pe tone raised vp after pat it semeth more spedeful and be pai hungen vp with a corde or with a to well festned 24 aboue to a balk or a beme. IT pe felaw of pe lech sitte at J>e bakke of pe pacient, aboue on pe bedde pat pe pacient liep in, and hold fast with his hande3 pe ouer buttoke in raisyng it vpward pat pe lech may liaue gode 28 s^t in his wyrchyng. IT pan at first putte the leclie pe schewyng 4 fynger of his left hande enoynted with oile, or som oyntment, in-to pe lure of pe pacient. Which ydo with pe totlier hand putte he pe heued of pe instrument 32 pat is called sequere me in-to pe hole of pe fistule * pat is next to pe lure, if per be many hole3, and assay bisily on pe fynger beyng in pe lure if he fele with it the instrument or fynger with-out any ping atuix. 35 Which if byfall witte he with-out dout pat pe longaon is persed. IT And pan witte he for certayn pat it byhouep mqt to cure pe pacient with no cure bot cuttyng with yren, or fretyng with a tlirede strengely yfestned. 40 1 habito respectu ad personam patientis ; “ sciat generositas vestra et eelsitudo necnon vestra mag- nanimitas.” 2 Cito tran- siebunt penosa, cum in prox¬ imo salus succedit gloriosa. 3 versus caudam spinse dorsi, i. e. “ rig- bon ” ejus- dem. 4 digitum manus sinis- trae . . . qui index dici- tur. [* leaf 67, col. 2]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31350409_0070.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
