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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![A well- applied bandage aids greatly in the cure. Remedies to be used on the second or third day when the bleeding is stopped. Arderne’s own prepar¬ ation “ Pulv. sine pare ” to be used about the eighth or ninth day. [Sloane MS. 277, leaf 68, col. 1] The bowels not to be moved for 48 hours after opera¬ tion, [* leaf 68, back, col. 2] but the wound to be cleansed and dried after a motion. Unguentuin viride a use¬ ful applica¬ te buttokkes upon pe lure) and opir cloutes y-putte atuix, pan be bounden two listis byngyng about pe pie of pe pacient. And if bope pe buttokkes bene hurt, ordeyne he anoper girdel to pe toper, and be it ordeyned 4 as it is seid afore, and on pe same wise, ffor knowe the leche pat competent byndyng shal giffe no^t litte help in curyng. But if medicyne^, forsop, may cleue to vnto dew tyme, pe cure shal longer be taried. fforsope when 8 pou seest, in pe secound day or pe prid, pe blode wele staunched, pan take pe 3olke of a raw ey, and wip oile roset or of camomille, or wip sangufs veneris, or, pise defailyng, distempre it wip comon) oile, and put it in a 12 littel bleddre, and wip anastar of tree ich day but oones be it 3etted into pe lure, so pat pe wouwde be filled perof. And aftirward put aboue lynnen stupe} kutted smal wip shere}, and aboue pe stupes a lynnen cloute. 16 And pan be it bounden as it pertenep, and lat it so lye vnto pe morne. And pis cure ow to be kepte by 8 or 9 dayes; whiche, forsope, y-fulfilled, panne owe pe leche to putte in pe kuttyng of my poudre pat I, lohn Arderne, 20 made, whiche I called ‘ puluer sine pari,’ an[d] on frenssh, ‘ poudre saun} pere.’ I wist neuer, forsope, ne knew poudre like to it, Of whiche it shal be seid aftirward in his place.1 Aboue pe poudre, forsop, put coton or stupe} 24 and bynd it. U And so by tuo hole natural daies be it 11031 moued, bot if voydyng of pe wombe make it2 ; bot warne pe lech pe pacient that he dispose hym so pat he remoue no}t pe medycyne in any maner in als-mich as 28 he may abstene. Elle} pe fruyte and pe vertue with pe effecte of the medycyne schal be annulled. If pe pacient for-sop may no}t abstene hym fro pe pryue *In pe mornyng be it clensed with hote watre and a sponge 32 and be it dryed and eft sone} be putte in of pe forseid poudre, And be it ordeyned as on pe day afore. And 3itte be he comaunded for to abstene as afore, pat if he do no}t eft-sone} pe prid tyme be it ordeyned with pe 36 same poudre as afore, And }itte he be amonysched to abstine. IT Afterward wheper he abstene or not, pe place wele yclensed and dried, be pe lure enoynted with 1 The MS. Sloane 6 is again defective, and the missing folios are again supplied from Sloane MS. 277. 2 nisi ventris evacuatio cogerit.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31350409_0074.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
