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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![Treatment by tents. Blind internal fistulfe. Arderne’s operation good, veneris wip pe forseid siring and bledder; whiche y-do, I putte in tuo tentes or pre, or lard of pork or swyne in pe larger holes; after pat pe depnes of pe fistules asked, pe heuedes, forsope, of pe tentes war tokned vtith 4 predes drawen pui’3 pe middes wip a nedell, pat pe tentes shnld no3t be drowned in pe grounde of pe fistules when pe tentes war put in. And I putte aboue pe emplastre pat is called Neyrbon strecehid vpon lywne 8 cloutes, and dewly y-bounden aboute pe lendes wip a girdill and cloutes y-sbapen as it is seid afore. I lefte it in pece vnto pe morne. At morne, forsope, pe emplastre remoued, per appered aboue 30 emplastre ful putrid 12 quitour in superflue quantite. Eftsones in pe secounde day I reparailed it in al pingfs as in pe first day, and it bifell as in pe firste day; and so it continued almost by a monep. When pe quitowr, perfore, bigynne to lessen 16 somwhat, and the bolnyng somwhat to cese, and pe colow and pe substaunce of pe skynne for to turne to his ovne naturel habitude, pan at pe first turned I to pe pnncipale cure of pe fistule with persyng of longaon, 20 whiche I cured finaly wip byndyng of a prede in pe hole of longaon. ])e toper hole3, forsope, beyng bisyde it I cured wip cuttyng and with puluer sine pare. Euermore continuyng pe cure wip pe siryng in pe lefte side, and 24 wip tentes als long as pay wolde entre in, and pe em¬ plastre ISTeyrbon y-putte aboue, and salus pop?di and vn- gnento arabico, vnto a loueable endewip godcles help aboute half a3ere I*cured bym, and lefte hym in pece. Also per 28 bene som men pat hap fistules no3t apperyng outward, but pay putte out miche putred & watrye humowr, and som-tyme clere blode, and somtyme blode y-medled wip quitour. And pai disese myche pe pacientes and feblep 32 pam. And oft-tymes suche maner sikenes bene toward pe rigbone of pe bak m3 pe lure, pat pay may be feled wip a fynger. But wlieper pay may be feled or no3t be pe?’ done suche a cure wip whiche I haue cured many 36 men. Be pe pacient putte vpon a bedde wyde opne agaynes a wynclowe, li^t shynyng, and pe legges y-raised vp and wip a towel y-hungen or wip a corcle ordeyned to pis werk; whiche y-do, be pe lure y-opned wip 40](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31350409_0082.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
