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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Title: 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.
Author: Levens, Peter, fl. 1587.
Publication: 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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Subject terms: Diseases; Medicine, Popular
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To make a woman soone to conceiue with child.

¶ Take the wine that Nep hath been sodden in, till the third part therof be consumed, and giue it to the woman to drinke fa∣sting, for three dayes together, and shée shall soone conceiue with child. Prooued.

Also Ipocras saith, that a woman being conceiued with a man childe is ruddy, and her right side is corny about, but if she be conceiued with a maid child, shee is blacke, and her left pap is corny about.