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Paré A (1575). Les oeuvres de M. Ambroise Paré conseiller, et premier chirurgien du Roy avec les figures & portraicts tant de l'Anatomie que des instruments de Chirurgie, & de plusieurs Monstres…….. [The works of M. Ambroise Paré, advisor, and first surgeon to the King, with figures and portraits concerning anatomy as well as surgical instruments, and several monsters] Paris: Gabriel Buon.
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Title page of the second part of Vigo’s surgical treatise, Compendiosa, containing summaries of material dealt with at greater length in the first part, the Copiosa; French translation (1525) by Nicolas Godin of Vigo’s Latin text. This is almost certainly the edition to which Paré refers when he says he had read Vigo on the treatment of gunshot wounds before the campaign into northern Italy of 1537.
The eighth chapter, of the remedies useful for envenomed wounds and for wounds made by poisonous beasts: and for wounds made by bombards: and of the removal of the sixth finger [i.e. of a supernumerary digit] and the treatment of an amputated foot or hand.
We have said in our copieuse [first part of the book on surgery] that the claws and teeth of beasts are venomous and that wounds made by firearms are infected with venom because of the powder and the treatment of the said wounds does not differ greatly. To come quickly to the treatment: if the wound is made by a horse, by a monkey or by a dog, or by a similar beast and given that the wound is large: one must cauterize the place with oil of elderberry with which should be mixed a little tiriaca galeni [treacle]. And, for wounds made by firearms it suffices to cauterize the place with oil of elderberry or with linseed oil ……….