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 take away the stinking of the mouth.

¶ Take and wash thy mouth with water and Vineger, and chew Mastick a good while, and then wash thy mouth with the decoction of Aniséeds, Mints, Cloues, sodden in Wine. If the stinking of the mouth come of a rotten tooth, the best is for to haue it drawne out. Also you must wash your mouth before meat and after with warme water.

For to clense the mouth, and to purge the humors from the mouth, which descend out of the head, it is good euery morning fasting to wash your mouth, and to rub your teeth with a Sage leafe, Pils of citron, or with powder made with Cloues or Nut∣megs,

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You must forbeare all meates of euill digestion, and rawe fruites.

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