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. XXXI. The healing of a child, that vvas full of vlcers, comming of the pockes.

A Young child foure yeares old, that was grieuouslie tor∣mented with the French disease, hauing extreme payne in his bodie, and being full of sores, was thus cured. ℞ the distilled water of lignum vitae, ℥ j, salis eiusdem ʒ j, mixe them, and thereof the child dranke, with sirupe of furnitorie or hops, morning and euening, and sometime the child sweat thereon. Also the sores were annointed, with this vnguent, ℞. oleum guaiaci, ℥ ss, balsamum sulfuris, ʒ ss, saccarum plum∣bi, ʒ ss, oleum camphorae, fiue or six drops, the caput mortuum of aqua fortis, ℈ j. Mixe them well, and grind them on a stone, with May butter, & therewith the sores were annoin∣ted morning and euening.