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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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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Hester, John, d. 1593.
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At London :: Printed by Richard Field, dwelling in the Black-friers,
1594.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03123.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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CHAP. XI. Of Persicaria, his vse and vertues.
YOu shall vnderstand, that this herbe, doth worke (in a manner) against all infirmities, most straungely to be∣hold. For if you take the powder thereof, and put it vpon copper molten, it will in the proiection, become like gold, and will draw it to a small quantitie, and make it malleable,* 1.1 and soft like gold, except the colour.
Also if you make a strong ley of the ashes of Persicaria,* 1.2 and therein boile yellow brimstone, it will draw out of it quicke siluer, which is the Philosophers Mercurie. This herbe doth also most notablie preserue a man from many infirmities, if one part thereof be taken whiles it is dry, and our other part of Specie venetiane; being both of them well