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.

CHAP. IX. Of contused vvounds on the head or other parts of the bodie.

THe auncient practitioners, haue esteemed contused wounds to be verie dangerous. For they say contusions must first be brought to putrifactiō, & turned into matter: which opinion is not to be allowed, for the bruses are to be dissolued without maturatiō, which hath bene a thousand times proued in the warres, after this manner to haue bene performed. Recipe, magno licore, oleum benedictum, ana, mixe them, & being verie hote, wet clothes therein, & lay there∣on twise a day, and in three or foure dayes they wilbe resol∣ued. Also the oyle of Franckinsence, or oleū philosophorum de tereb. & cera, will resolue any simple bruise in three or foure houres, only by continual annointing the place therewith, so fast as it drinketh in any. Prouided, that the bruise be not aboue six or eight houres old, for if it be, then will your worke be somwhat the longer, before it be finished.