E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected; they are listed at the end of the text. Page numbers enclosed by curly braces (e.g., {125}) are included in the text to enable the reader to use the "Table of the Chapters" [Table of Contents] which is located at the end of the book. THE _Compleat Surgeon_: OR, The whole Art of _Surgery_ explain'd in a most familiar Method. Containing An exact Account of its Principles and several Parts, _viz._ Of the _Bones_, _Muscles_, _Tumours_, _Ulcers_, and _Wounds_ simple and complicated, or those by _Gun-shot_; as also of _Venereal Diseases_, the _Scurvy_, _Fractures_, _Luxations_, and all sorts of Chirurgical Operations; together with their proper Bandages and Dressings. To which is added, A _Chirurgical Dispensatory_; shewing the manner how to prepare all such Medicines as are most necessary for a Surgeon, and particularly the _Mercurial Panacæa_. * * * * * Written in _French_ by _M. le Clerc_, Physician in Ordinary, and Privy-Counsellor to the _French_ King; and faithfully translated into _English_. * * * * * LONDON, Printed for _M. Gillyflower_, in _Westminster-Hall_; _T. Goodwin_, and _M. Wotton_, in _Fleet-street_; _J. Walthoe_, in the _Middle-Temple_ Cloysters; and _R. Parker_, under the _Royal-Exchange_, in _Cornhill_, 1696. * * * * * THE PREFACE. _So great a number of Treatises of Surgery, as well Ancient as Modern, have been already publish'd, that a plenary Satisfaction seems to have been long since given on this Subject, even to the Judgment of the most curious Inquirers: But if it be consider'd that a young Surgeon ought always to have in view the first Principles of this Noble Art explain'd after a familiar and intelligible manner, it will be soon acknowledg'd that there is good reason to set about_ _the Work anew: For besides that the Writings of the Ancients being so voluminous, are not portable, they are also very intricate and confus'd; nay the whole Art has been so far improv'd and brought to perfection by able Masters in the present Age, that they are now almost become unprofitable._