An experimental treatise of surgerie, in four parts 1. The first part shewing the dangerous abuses committed among the modern surgeons. 2. Of cures of all sorts of wounds ... 3. Of the symptomes of wounds ... 4. Treating of all kinds of balmes ... etc / ... Exactly perused after the authors own manuscrip [sic], by Rodolph Wurtz ... Faithfully the second time translated into Neather Dutch ... and now also Englished and much corrected, by Abraham Lenertzon Fox ... Whereunto is added ... the Children's book ... [Edited by William Johnson].

  • Wuertz, Felix, active 1510-1590.
Date:
1656
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Credit: An experimental treatise of surgerie, in four parts 1. The first part shewing the dangerous abuses committed among the modern surgeons. 2. Of cures of all sorts of wounds ... 3. Of the symptomes of wounds ... 4. Treating of all kinds of balmes ... etc / ... Exactly perused after the authors own manuscrip [sic], by Rodolph Wurtz ... Faithfully the second time translated into Neather Dutch ... and now also Englished and much corrected, by Abraham Lenertzon Fox ... Whereunto is added ... the Children's book ... [Edited by William Johnson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (I*) But many profefs themfelves Surgeons, ana are ignorant AfTes, which appearcth thus i becaufe they ufe one fort of oyleand plaifter to all manner of Wounds and Sorts, fup- pofing to do well therewith; and in cafe that will not doe it,then the Cerufla muft do it: And what is the meaning of all this.** nothing elfe, but that they know neither thedif- eafe, nor their own medicaments, neither do they know what belongs to the difeafe,nor what the operation and vcr- tue of their Medicine is. They fhould rather conlider, that the ftomack in mans Wounds body, and the wounds in the outward members are like one tfee ftomack an0thcrin fomefort. For as the ftomack hath a deco&i- te on todigeftthe meats hefeedethon ; foany wound recei¬ ved the Medicine applyed unto for its healing. And as there are fome kind or meats, which are not pleafingto the ftomack,& it cafts them up upon occafton; fo it is not good to apply any medicine to a wound, one more, another !efs, according to occafion , feafon, place and circumftance! And as a pnylitian ought to know when the ftomack doth not digeft well his food, being grown either flirnie, or taken cold, or when the liver is out of order, the which h? muft judge by fignes, becaufe he cannot look into the ftomack, and fo order his Medicaments accordingly; fo it behooved a Surgeon alfo, who can plainly fee into the wound fin > t‘iaC ^a£h an advantage before the Phyfitian 'l to know mm the wound is able to receive and digeft the appS Medicine,and muft know,what food (he liketh, for her heal¬ ing; for feveral wounds have their feveral fignes. IF 1 herefore a Surgeon, when he hathdreft any wound, and taketn the plaifter offagain , muft know and judge bv the wound, matter, fmcll and ftiape, what defeat there is in the hat?, rece‘ved lhe medicine like a food, v It well,or whether it hath call it up again? .5 mayknow, whether his applied medicine beright and good,or whether it be defeftive, either too (harp or too in fb.w0 Wefk or,coo^r®nS '• *nd if he finds the infirmity ren ^hTr ’i/nd the/cfi;a in the Medicine, then he muft regulate himfelf accordingly. Now