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.
Author
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 11, 2024.

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For a rich face.

¶ Take thrée yolks of Eggs rawe, as much in quantity of fresh butter, or Capons greace without salt, Camphire, two peny worth, red Rose-water halfe a pint, two graines of Siuet, and boile all these together in a dish, & then strain them through a clean cloth, and so set it to kéele, and take the vppermost and box it. Also take Populeon, Brimstone, and fresh butter, and à handfull of red Sage, and stamp and strain them, and then melt

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all together, and put it in a boxe. Also take white Copperas one vnce, one pint of running water, and boile them altogether to the halse, and skim it clean, and straine it, and put it in a glasse, and set it in the Sunne, then wash thy face with a feather, and annoint thy face therwith morning and euening till it be whole.

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