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 to prouoke an appetite.

¶ Take Sage, Parsly, Pepper, and Mints, and stampe them, and temper them with Vineger, as you doo make sauce for ••••shes, it will cause appetite: also flesh eaten with Vineger, comforteth and giueth appetite. If Vineger be vsed with a full stomacke, it vnbindeth the wombe, with an emptie stomacke bindeth it. It is good for them that be weake with sicknes, if it be taken in this manner: tost bread, and wet it in Vineger, and with the tost rub the mouth and nosthrils, and bind it on the pul∣sable vaines, for it comforteth the Patient, and the appetite, but for the appetite onely, it were better wet in the iuice of Mints. Also to them that haue lost their appetite by sicknes, two drams of the powder of Betony, with foure Ciote roots in drink, taketh away both sadnes and euill tast of meats. Also take and confect Cardomomum, with the iuice of Mints, and vse for to wet your meat therin, it prouoketh appetite.