A right profitable booke for all diseases: called, The pathway to health. Wherein are to be founde most excellent & approued medicines of great vertue: as also notable potions and drinks, and for the distilling of diuers precious waters, and making of oyles, and other comfortable receits for the health of the body, neuer before imprinted. First gathered by Peter Leuens, master of art of Oxford, and student in phisicke and surgery: and now newly corrected and augmented.

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Title: A right profitable booke for all diseases: called, The pathway to health. Wherein are to be founde most excellent & approued medicines of great vertue: as also notable potions and drinks, and for the distilling of diuers precious waters, and making of oyles, and other comfortable receits for the health of the body, neuer before imprinted. First gathered by Peter Leuens, master of art of Oxford, and student in phisicke and surgery: and now newly corrected and augmented.
Author: Levens, Peter, fl. 1587.
Publication: At London :: printed by I. Roberts for Edward VVhite, and are to be solde at the little North doore of Paules Church, at the signe of the Gun,; 1596.
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Subject terms: Diseases; Medicine, Popular
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A precious water for the sight of the eyes, made by King Edward the sixt.

¶ Take Smallage, red Fennell, Rue, Verneine, Betonie, Egremony, Pimpernell, Enfrance, Sage, Selondine, of each a like quuntity, first wash them cleane, then stampe them, and put them in a faire brasen pan, with the powder of xv. Pepper cornes, faire serced into a pynt of good white wine, then put thē into the hearbs, with three spoonfuls of Honny, and fiue spoonfuls of the water of a man child that is an innocent, mingle all toge∣ther, and boile them ouer the fire: and when it is sod, straine it through a fine linnen cloth, and put it into a glasse, and stoppe it well and close till you will vse it, and when you néed, put a little thereof into the sore eyes with a feather: but if it wexe dry, then temper it with white wine, and it profiteth much all manner of sore eyes: this water was vsed by King Edward the sixt.