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 May 31, 2024.
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For the chafing of the lyuer.
¶ For the chafing of the lyuer and opilation of the milt cau∣sed of humor: take Rubarb with warme water, but it is better to mingle it with Trifera sarazenica, and this you may vse with the iuice of Endiue, and so giue it to the Patient.
Also take and annoynt the lyuer with the oyle of Roses, for the chafing of the lyuer.
Against chafing or heat of the lyuer: take and wet a cloth ma∣ny times double, and lay it to the lyuer.
Also the oyle of Violets is good against the chafing of the ly∣uer. Prooued.
Against the chafing of the lyuer: scrape the vppermost of the Gourd, stamp the said scraping and wring out the iuice, and put Vineger thereto, wet a cloth therin, and lay it to the lyuer out∣wardlie.
Also take Endiue, and lay it in water, and vse it in your bro∣thes for the Patient so gréeued.
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