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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Title: 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.
Author: Hester, John, d. 1593.
Publication: At London :: Printed by Richard Field, dwelling in the Black-friers,; 1594.
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Subject terms: Medicine -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
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CHAP. III. A notable experience, of a medecine that hath brought great ease, to any great ache or paine, as of the gout or otherwise.

TAke one or two, of the formost sucking whelpes, of a mastif or bearebitch, kill them, and take sorth the guts, fill them with blacke snailes, rost them, and bast them with ℥ xij, of oyle of spike, coloured with saffron. Reserue that, which droppeth from them, and mixe it with as much oyle of waxe, and therewith annoint any ache or grief.