The works of Ambrose Parey, chyrurgeon to Henry II. Francis II. Charles IX. and Henry III. Kings of France. : Wherein are contained an introduction to chirurgery in general : a discourse of animals, and of the excellency of man. The anatomy of man's body. A treatise of praeternatural tumors ... Illustrated with variety of figures, and the cuts of the most useful instruments in chirurgery. Recommended by the University of Paris to all students in physick and chirurgery, particularly such as practised in camps and the sea.
- Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590.
- Date:
- M DC XCI. [1691]
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Credit: The works of Ambrose Parey, chyrurgeon to Henry II. Francis II. Charles IX. and Henry III. Kings of France. : Wherein are contained an introduction to chirurgery in general : a discourse of animals, and of the excellency of man. The anatomy of man's body. A treatise of praeternatural tumors ... Illustrated with variety of figures, and the cuts of the most useful instruments in chirurgery. Recommended by the University of Paris to all students in physick and chirurgery, particularly such as practised in camps and the sea. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![L, I a. L Ccmpendious li^ay to QhirMrgery. CHAP. XXlIt. r- Of iertain wonderful and extravagant ways of curing Oifeafes* AS Monfters happen fometimes in Nature, fo alfo in Difeafes, and in the events and cutes of MonflrduS Difeafes. I underftand by Monfters certain marvellous fuccelTes in Difeafes, or certain ways Difeafes. of curing them,which fwerve from Art,and happen befides Realbn,Nature,and common ufe. . . , Alexander ah Alexandra and Peter Gilius tell, that in Apulia a place in Italy^ they have a certain wonder- kind of Spider very frequent, the Natives call it ‘Tarantula^ Petrm Rhodius calls it Phalangium, The [ke°ora° ce^- Inhabitants find thefe Spiders in the firft heat of Summer fo venatate and deadly, that whomfoever tain Spider. they touch with their virulent biting, he prefontly, without he have fpeedy remedy, deprived of all fenfe and motion falls down *, or certainly, if he efoape the danger of death, he leads the remnant of his life in madnefs. Experience hath found a remedy by Mufick for this fo fpeedy and deadly a Muiick the re- Difeafo: Wherefore, as foon as they can, they fetch Fidlers and Pipers of divers kinds, who by play- thercsE ing and piping may make Mufick i at the hearing whereof he which was Men down by reafon of the venemous bite, rifes chearfully, and dances fo long to their meafures and tunes, until by the pain¬ ful and continued [baking and agitation of the whole body,all the malignity is diffipated by tranfpira- tion and fweats. Alexander adds, That it happened once in his fight, that the Muficians, their wind sind hands faih ing them, ceafed playing, and then the Dancer prefently fell down as if he had been dead •, but by and by the Mufick beginning anew, he rofe up again and continued his dancing till the perfed: diffi- pation of the venom. And that it hath happened befides, that one not perfectly healed, certain re- liques of the Difeafe yet remaining, when a long time after he heard by chance a noife of Muficians, he prefently fell aleaping and dancing, neither could he be rr.ade to leave before he was perfedly cured. Some affirm according to the opinion of Afclepiades, that fuchas arefrantick are much helped Mufick‘gi^S with a fweet and mufical harmony. ‘Rheophrajius and Aulas Gellias fay, that the pain of the Gout ealeto paii; and Sciatica are taken away by Mufick. And the facred Scripture teftifies, that T>avid was wont by the fweet found of the Harp to refrefli and eafe King when he was miferably tormented by his evil fpirit. Herodotus in Clio tells, That Crafus the King of Lydia had a Son which of a long time could not fpeak, and when he came to mans eftate was accounted dumb: but when an enemy with his drawn Sword invaded his Father (overcome in a great fight, and the City being taken in which he was) not knowing that he was the King, the young man opened his mouth endeavouring to cry A f?Ton| per-’ out, and with that ftriving and forcing of the fpirit, he broke the bonds and hindrances of his tongue, turbation of and fpoke plainly and articulately, crying Out to the Enemy that he Ihould not kill King Creefas, So helps^bv^md* both the Enemy with-held his fword, and the King had his life, and his Son had his fpeech always ving thefpi- after. Plutarch in his Book, Of the Benefit to be received jroM our Enemies^ tells. That z^LheJfalian called rits. Proteus^ had a certain inveterate and incurable Ulcer, in a certain part of his body, which could not be healed, before he received a wound in a confli(fr in the fame place, and by that means the cure bein^ begun afrelh,the Wound and Ulcer were both healed. as writes, was long and very fiek of a quartan Ague, neither could Chance fome- have wilhed fuccefs from Medicins adminiftred according to Art, until skirmilhing with the Alio- exceedi hroges^ he [baked off his old feverifti heat, by a new heat and ardent defirel of fighting. It was credi- bly reported to me of late by a Gentleman of the Lord of Lanfacl^s Chamber, that there was a French Gentleman in Pa/o«w, who was grievouily tormented with a quartan Fever, who on a time walking on the Bank of the River Wexel^to take away the irkfomnefs of his fit, was thrufi in jeft into the River by afriend of his that met him by chance,by whichfalthough he couidfwim,as he alfo knew that thruft him in) he conceived fo great fear, that the Quartan never troubled him after. King Henry the Se¬ cond commanded me to go from the Camp at Amiens to the City Dorian^ that I ipight cure thofo that were hurt in the confiid with the Spaniards: the Captain S. Arhin^ although at that time he had a fit of a (^artan Ague, yet would he be prefent at the fight, in which he being foot through the fide of the neck with a Bullet, he was ftrucken with fuch a terrour of death, that the heat of the Fever was affwaged by the cold fear, and he after lived free from his Ague. Francifeus Valeriola the famous Phyfician of Arles tells. That John Berlam his felloW-Cithen trou^ Ohferv.m^ bled with a Palfie of one fide of his Body for many years, his houfe taking fire, and the flame coming near the Bed in which he lay, he ftrucken with a great fear, fuddenly raffed himfelf with all the forc^ he had^, and prefently recovering the ftrength of his body, leaps out at the window from the top of the houfe, and was prefently cured of his Difeafe *, Senfe and Motion being reftored to the part, fo that afterward he went upright without any fenfe of pain, who lay unmovable for many years be¬ fore. He tells the like in the fame place of his Coufin John Sobiratius j he was a long time lame at Avignon, by reafon that the Nerves of his Hams were [hrunk and drawn up, fo that he could not go v being moved with a vehement and fudden paffion of anger againft one of his Servants whom he en¬ deavoured to beat, hefoftirred his body, that forthwith the Nerves of his Hams being diftended, and his Knees made pliant, he began to go and ft and upright without any fenfe of pain, when he had been crooked about the fjpace of fix years before, and all his life time after he remained found. Galen tells, he was once fetched to ftanch the bleeding for one who had an Artery cut near his Ancle, and that by his means he was cured without any danger of an Aneurijma (i.e.) a relaxation of a veinous veffel i and befides, by that accidental wound he was freed from a moft grievous pain of his hip, with which he was tormented four years before: but although this eafing of the pain of the Galen by a Sciatica happened according to reafon, by the evaluation of the con]un<ff matter, by the Artery oi the dream cures](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30342843_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
