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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For cornes in the toes.

¶ Take of vnslaked Lime a little, and quench it with strong Vineger, and when you will occupie it, pare the corne, and mingle it with Rose water, and lay it too.

Also take the gall of a Swine being dried, but first wash it with hot water, and strew the powder thereon.

Also take and cutte away the corne, and drop into it a drop or two of a black Snayle, and put thereto the powder of Sand∣fer, and it taketh away the corne.

Also take Marigolds stamped, and lay vpon the sore euening and morning, and it profiteth, or else pare your corne, and lay thereto Turpentine, and red Waxe boyled together, and make a plaister therof, and it helpeth the corne of the toe.