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. II. The healing of aches, comming of the pockes, by W. H.

ONe of a ver•••• darke and melancholike complexion, to whom son•…•… in London, had giuen the fume, and

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the vnction, three or foure times: and yet left him possessed with most pitifull aches and paine in his ioynts; who for want of maintenance, was inforced to go into the countrie, where he was borne, and was there pittied of an honest Gentleman, which cured him in this sort. First he purged him twise or thrise with Aromatico Leonardo: which done, he tooke for foure or fiue dayes together, ʒ ss, of the extract of Hermodactiles, with white wine. Then vnto the articu∣lar parts that were gieued, he applied emplastrum faetidum, W. H. and thus in short time he was healed throughlie.

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