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. XXXIII The killing and expelling of wormes in the stomacke or elsewhere, by I. H.

AN infinite number of people, both young and old, haue beene cured thereof, with this composition following. Take the seed of Carduus sanctus, Wormeseed, Dittanie, Semen Caulium, cornucerui vsti, coralline, vermium terrestrium, ana ℥ ss, mixe them in fine pouder, and giue thereof ʒ ss, ei∣ther with honie, or sweete milke, in the morning and eue∣ning. Anoint also the stomack, and bellie downward, with this vnguent following, and applie a little vnto the nauell, with browne paper, and no doubt of it, within two or three daies, the patient shalbe cured. For it doth not onely kill the wormes, but causeth them to come forth by siege, making the bellie soluble, so that they shall haue two or three stooles in a day. The cataplasme or vnguent is this. ℞. Farinae lupi∣norum, Aloes, centauriae, myrrhae, theriacae optimae, ana ℥ ss, beat them into fine pouder, and make thereof an vnguent, with the iuice of peach leaues, and keepe it to your vse. Also two or three drops of Oleum vitrioli, being dronke with water of gramen, or such like, for three or foure daies, killeth wormes. Also ʒ ij, of Quintessencia solutiuo Phiorau. dronke with ℥ j, of sirupe of Roses, killeth the wormes, and expelleth them by siege.