To see the salve doth make the wound ache more. Lucrece.
Scratch thee but with a pin, and there remains Some scar of it. As You Like It, Act III., Sc. V.
The new-heal’d wound * * * should break out, Which would be so much the more dangerous. Richard III., Act II., Sc. II.
I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good master cobweb. If I cut my finger, I shall make bold with you. Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III., Sc. I.
I’ll fetch some flax, and whites of eggs To apply to ’s bleeding face. King Lear, Act III., Sc. VII.
Go, get a white of an egg and a little flax, and close the breach of the head; it is the most conducible thing that can be. Ben Jonson—“The Case is Altered.” Act II., Sc. IV,.
One’s hip he slash’d, and split the other’s shoulder, And drove them with their brutal yells to seek If there might be chirurgeons who could solder The wounds they richly merited. Byron—Don Juan, Canto VIII., Verse XCIV.
Many surgical subjects receive but little attention from him.
Ber. What is it, my good lord, the king languishes of? Laf. A fistula, my lord. All’s Well, Act I., Sc. I.
Fal. Why, sirs, I am almost out at heels. Pist. Why, then, let kibes ensue. Merry Wives, Act I., Sc. III.