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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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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Levens, Peter, fl. 1587.
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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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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A72549.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.

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To make teeth to fall out of them selues.

¶ Take ground Wormes, and a red hote Tile-stone, and burne them to powder, and put the ashes into the hollow tooth, and couer it with war, and they will fall out themselues. Also take the root of Henbane, and make it in powder, and touch the tooth, and it will fall out, take héed that thou touch not any but that which is sore. Also burne to pouder a Harts horne, and rub thy téeth therewith, and they will fall out. Also make dowe of Wheat flower, with the milk of spurge, and lay it about the tooth that is pained, and it shall fall out. Also take a water Frog, and a gréene Frog, and seeth them together, and gather the greace, and smere therwith thy gums about the téeth, and they will fall out quickly.

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