Decisiones praecipuorum aliquot aporēmatōn iatrophilosophikōn

often by nothing other than lithotomia lithotomy/surgical cutting for stone with a double-edged scalpel by a surgeon. Galen, Book 10 On the Composition of Medicines according to Place, ch. 1; and Book 5 On the Faculties of Simple Medicines, ch. 12.

For syderatio gangrene/necrosis, Celsus (Book 7, ch. 33), Tagault (Book 1, Institutions of Surgery), Albucasis (Book 2, ch. 89), Maggius of Bologna (Book on the Cure of Gunshot Wounds, ch. 4), Chalmetus (Surgical Compendium, ch. 4), and others of their followers advise making the incision above the affected area in the healthy part. However, Galen (Book 2 to Glauco, ch. 10), Paul (Book 6, ch. 84), Botallus (Book on the Cure of Gunshot Wounds, ch. 22), and Gourmel (Book 2, Surgery) maintain the opposite. We, whatever Maggius may say, embrace the procedure of the latter as the safest, for it is not exposed to as many complications as that former laceration. The surgeon, once the patient has been fortified some days before the incision (not, however, by administering narcotics or poppy, whether raw or charred in a pot and cooked in a hollowed quince)

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