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.

For the stopping of the pypes, and for fleame, a medicine proued.

¶ Take a good bowle-full of Barlie, and put to the same a gallon of cleane Well water, and boyle them together till the Barly be as soft as any Wheate or Formentie, then straine it through a cleane cloth, and take that water, and put thereunto asmuch good Woort, with a penny-worth of Licoris brused, but not made into powder, and a good handfull of Isope, another of Sage, and boyle them altogether till one halfe of the liquor bee boyled in: then straine that liquor through a cloth, and that that commeth through the cloth, put into a close vessell, and let it stand a day, and then let the patient drinke thereof a spoonefull or two euerie morning, and so much likewise euery euening vntill he be well. This hath béene often prooued.