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 to keep a stock of ligature material, and to be very careful to keep his methods secret. A prescrip¬ tion for a good clyster, and another fora plaster. [* leaf 148, back] slmld liaue eueniiore prede of white silke, small and strong ; if he haue no^t, forsope, pan take lie strong prede of lyne or of tuyne. And in no maner after his mi^t sliewe he no^t his wirkyng, nouper in kuttyng ne wip 4 prede hyndyng, pat his werke he perceyued of strange men, pat his cure he no^t litle sette by, or J>at any oper witty man perceyuyng his werk mow vsurpe it to hym- self ; for ]ms did I, per fore wake ^e, for he pat is warned 8 aforne is no^t bigiled. It byhouep a leche vse many cautele^, pat he adoz^rne1 his faculte, whiche I may no^t note to pe laste. It seemep, forsope, vnworpi for to vse wele pingis y-giffe pat kan no^t gette hym mo 12 pingis. jperfore when pe pacient has clensed his wombe, be he putte ypon a bedde, and be his lure wele clensed and wyped wip bote watre and wip a sponge. Aftirward be it enoynted wip pi fynger atuix pe 16 buttoke3 and on icli aside about pe lure wip Salus popwli hette in an ostree shell. Aftirward be per jetted in by a nasta?’e pe ^olk of an ey as aboue wip oile. Aftirward be per putte aboue siche ane Emplast?’e : 20 Recipe—pe Iuyse of smalache or merch, wormode, Molayne, walworte, Sparge, waybrede, Mugworte, auance, petite consoude, wodbynd. Of alle pise herbes, if pou may haue pam, take euen porcion, outtake of wodebynde, 24 of whiche, if it may be liadde, be taken pe triple or quadriple. If al, forsope, may not be liadde, take pe toper pat pou may haue, and namely pe pre first named wip wodebynd if pou may haue it. The con- 28 feccion) is pus:—Take pe Iuse of pe herbes, and be it medled wip als mich of wele clarified hony, al-wise mouyng on an esy fire, and boile tham so long vnto pat pe watrynes of pe Iuyse be somewhat pikned; whiche, 32 y-take of pe fire and keled, kepe it in a gode potte.2 It 2 ab igne may laste al one ^ere or tuo; perfore when pou wilt vse fnmgerate, perof, take of it als mich as it is nede, and putte perto reservatur. als miche of whites of eiren, wele v-bette and scorned,3 and 36 3 prius ad moue pam togider. Aftir be per put to pam of subtile spunat?.6' mele of whete als moche as sufficep, and medle pam wele to-gidre; pan putte * to a litle oyle of olyue, or of fressh buttre scorned at pe fire, wip als miche virgine wax 40 1 ut facul- tatem suam decoret.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31350409_0078.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
