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.

A notable plaister for the Plurisie.

¶ Take the rootes of wilde Mallowes, the greace of a hog, the greace of a Fexe, and of a Goose or a Ducke, of each a like much, but not aboue an ouce of eyther: of fresh Butter, halfe an vnce, of Terrebanthium halfe an vnce, of the fatte of Veale sixe drammes, of the oyle of Dyll halfe an vnce, of the mary of a Deere, halfe an vnce, the powder of the seedes of Flaxe, Vine∣gar and Bay berries, of each three drammes, and eyght Figs, beate all in a morter, then put all in a pan, putting Flaxe ther∣in to binde it together, and stirre it with a stick vpon the coales, then take the whole, or part thereof, and spread it vppon Lea∣ther, and couer it with silke, and bast it with thread like a quilt, and so apply the plaister to the place so greeued, as close as may be: and by Gods grace you shall find great ease. Proued.