The pearle of practise, or Practisers pearle, for phisicke and chirurgerie. Found out by I. H. (a spagericke or distiller) amongst the learned obseruations and prooued practises of many expert men in both faculties. Since his death it is garnished and brought into some methode by a welwiller of his.

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Title: The pearle of practise, or Practisers pearle, for phisicke and chirurgerie. Found out by I. H. (a spagericke or distiller) amongst the learned obseruations and prooued practises of many expert men in both faculties. Since his death it is garnished and brought into some methode by a welwiller of his.
Author: Hester, John, d. 1593.
Publication: At London :: Printed by Richard Field, dwelling in the Black-friers,; 1594.
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Subject terms: Medicine -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
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CHAP. XIII. To cure a rupture in the beginning.

IN euery ten dayes once, giue them our Aromatico, and euery morning fasting giue them ℥ j, of white Tartar, in water or wine; and two houres before supper, you shall take the like: Let your bread be rye, also you must weare a trusse fit for that purpose, and vse this remedie following. Take of the spirite of wine ℥ xij, frankincense Olibanum, mastiche sarcocolla, ana ℥ ss, infuse them in the said Aqua vitae, and therewith wash the rupture twise a day, then presently cast thereon, the powder of Bislingua, and the herbe Balsamina, and lay thereon a cloth, wet in the said water, and bind on the trusse so hard, as he may possiblie abide it; and hereby shalt thou heale any great rupture in an hundred dayes, but see that you keepe a diet accordingly.

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TAke very stiffe and thicke paper well gummed, chew it in thy mouth till it be soft: then lay it vpon the rupture, and weare thereon a trusse fit for the purpose.

Some vse to steepe the paper in lye, and wring the same out till it be drie, and applie it to the rupture, chaunging it once in 24. houres.