The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson [and in part by G. Baker] Whereunto are added three tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, and nerves. With large figures. ; Also a table of the bookes and chapters.

  • Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590.
Date:
1649
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Credit: The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson [and in part by G. Baker] Whereunto are added three tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, and nerves. With large figures. ; Also a table of the bookes and chapters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Examples of raking away that which is fuperfluous, ♦^Tworunicles of theeys. Examples of replacing. Example of feparating things joined together. Examples of uniting things disjoined. Examplcs’of fitpplying defefls. ArchagaWi the Chirurgeon. In prAfat.lib.']* The properties of a good Chirurgeon.' We have examples of taking a'way that which abounds in the Amputation or cutting off a finger, if any have fix on one hand, or any other monftrous member that may grow out : in the lopping off a putrefied part inwardly corrupted j in the cxtraftion of a dead child, the fccondine, mole, onfiich like bodies out of a womans womb ; In taking down of all Tumors, as Wens, Warts, Polypus, Cancers, andflefhy excrefcences of the like ne¬ ture j in the pulling forth of bullets, of pieces of maile, of darts, arrows, ffiells, fplinters, and of all kind of weapons in what part of the body fbever they be. And he taketh away that which redounds, which plucks away the hairs of the ey-lids which trouble the ey by their turning in towards it : who cuts away the web, pofleffing all the * Adnata^ and part of the * Corma : who letteth forth ffippurated matter : who taketh out ftones in what part foever of the body they grow j who puls out a rotten or otherwife hurtfiill tooth; or cuts a nail that runs into the flefh : who cuts away part of theor hairs that grow on the ey-lids : who taketh off a Cataraft ; who cuts the navill or foreskin of a childe newly born ; or the skinny caruncles of womens privities. Examples of placing thofe things which are out of their naturali Ike, are manifeft in reftoring diflocated bones ; in re-placing of the guts and kail fallen into the cods, or out of the navill or belly by a wound ; or of the falling down of the womb, fundament, or great gut, or the eye hanging out of its circle, or proper place. But we may take exaiuples of disjoyning thole things which are oontinued ; from the fingers growing together, either by fome chance, as'burning ; or by theimbecillity of the forming faculty ; by the diajunftion of the membrane called or any other trou- ling the neck of the womb ; by difleftion of the ligament of the tongue, which hinders children from lucking and Ipeaking, and of that which hinders the GUns from being unco¬ vered of the foreskin ; by the divilionof a varicous vein, or of a half cut nerve or tendon, caufing convulfion ; by the divifion of the membrane flopping the auditory paffage, the nole, mouth, or fundament, or the flubborn flicking together of the hairs of the ey-lids. Refer to this place all the works done by Cauflicks, the Saw, Trepan, Lancet,Cupping- glaffes,Incifion-knife, Leeches, either for evacuation, derivation, or revulfion fake. The Chirurgeon draws together things leparated, tvhich healeth wounds by Hitching them, by bolflering, binding, giving refl to, and fit placing the part : which repairs fra- ftures ; refloring luxated parts : who by binfling the veflel, ftayeth the violent effufion of blood : who cicatriceth cloven lips, commonly called Kare-lips : who reduceth to equa¬ lity the cavities of Ulcers and Fiftula’s. , But he repairs thole things which are e^her from the infancy, or afterwards by accident, as much as Art and Nature will fufier); who lets on an ear, an ey, a nole, one or more teeth; who fils the hollownefs of the palat eaten by the Pox, with a thin Elate of gold or filver, or fuch like ; who liipplies the defeâ: of the tongue in part cut off^ y Ibme new addition ; who fallens to a hand, an arm, or leg with fit ligaments, work¬ manlike ; who fits a doublet bumbafted, or made with iron plates to make the body ftreighf ; who fils a Ihoo too big with cork, or fallens a flocking or lock to a lame mans girdle to help his gate. We will treat more fully of all thele in our following Work. But in performing thofe things with the hands, we cannot but caule pain : ( for who can without pain cut off an arm, or leg, divide and tear afunder the neck of the bladder, re- ftore bones put out of their places, open Ulcers, bind up Wounds, and apply cautefies, and do luch like? ) notwithflanding the mafter ofen comes to that pafs, that unlcfs we ule a judicious hand, we mull either die, or lea({ the remnant of our lives in perpetuali milery. Who therefore can juflly abhor a Chirurgeon for this, or accule him of cruelty ? or defire they may be ferved, as in ancient times the Romans fevVed Archagatus^ who at the .firft made him free of the City ; but prelently after, becaiile hedid Ibmewhat too cruelly burn, cut, and perform the other works of a good Chirurgeon, they drew him from his houle into the Campus Martius^ and there Honed him to death, as we read it recorded by Sextus Chero^ tueus:, 'Plutarch'’s nephew by his Daughter. Truly it was an inhumane kind of ingraititudcjfo cruelly to murder a man intent to the works of fo neceflary an Ait. But the Senate could not approve the aft, wherefore to expiate the crime as well as then they could, they made his Statue in Gold,placed it in Æ fculaPius his Temple, and dedicated It to his perpetuali memory. For my part, I very well like,that faying of Celfus : A Chirurgeon mull have a flrong, liable, and intrepid hand, and a mind refolute and mercilefs ; fo that to heal him he taketh in hand, he be not moved to make more halle than the thing requires ; or to cut lefs than is needfull ; but which doth all things as if he were nothing affefted with their cries ; not giving heed to the judgment of the vain common people, whofpeak ill of Chi- rurgeons becaufe of their ignorance. CHAP. r