Dr. John Hall (1529?-1568?), an English poet and medical writer, and also a member of The Worshipful Company of Chirurgeons, used the following regimen to treat the Countess of Salisbury's son who was afflicted with a fever and worms. Talbot, the first-born of the Countess of Salisbury, aged about one year, being miserably afflicted with a fever and worms, so that death was only expected, was thus cured. There was first injected a clyster of milk and sugar. This gave two stools, and brought away four worms. By the mouth was given hartshorn burnt, prepared in the form of a julep and to the pulse was applied Ung. Populeon drams mixed with spiders webs, and a little powder of nutshells. It was put to one pulse of one wrist one day, to the other the next. To the stomach was applied Nithridate; to the navel, and emplaster against worms. And thus he became well in three days, for which the Countess returned me many thanks, and gave me a great reward.1