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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¶ First let the partie thus diseased, bee let blood on the left arme or in the liuer vaine, three or foure ounces, and let him gargase it with Wine-vinegar and water warmed together, of each a like quantitie, gargase it often times, and spet it out, and let him haue Methridatum in white Wine, and let him sweat vpon it an howre or two. And if the Quinsie be swolne already in his throat, then let him vse this remedie following. Take a Swallowes nest as you finde it, with Birds, or with Egges, or without eyther of them, and put to the same eyght handfulls of Mallowes, with asmuch Water-cresses, boyle them all toge∣ther in milke vntill they become soft, and till the milk be cleane consumed, then beate it in a bowle vntill it come to a plaister, then take asmuch as your fist of the same and while it is warme spread it like a plaister, and binde it as hote as may be suffered about the place where the swelling is, and so change it often til the paine be gone.