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 9, 2024.

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CHAP. XX. Of the gumme Carrana, and the medecinall properties of it.

TAke it, and distill it in a retort with the yolkes and whites of egges, and there will come forth oile, and wa∣ter, the oyle whereof will be blacke, and the water red.

* 1.1The water of Carranna helpeth Chilblaines, and all choppes or clefts in the lippes arising of cold in the winter.

* 1.2It is a great ease, for the sore breastes of women, that giue sucke.

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The oyle worketh wonderfull effects,* 1.3 in woundes of the head, arme, or legges.

Annoint a simple wound therewith, once or twise:* 1.4 and it will very speedily be healed.

Take a quantitie of this gumme, and mixe it with as much of the seede of water cresses, and the white of an egge, and make thereof a cerote, to apply vnto a rupture:* 1.5 where∣with it will in short time be healed, all other circumstances being also obserued.

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