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 restoritie and electuarie for a man that is wasted or consumed, called the electuary of life, practi∣zed by M. Baltazar.

¶ Take two pounde of Dates, and wash them cleane in Ale or Beere, then cut them and take out the stones, and the white skinnes, and cut them small, and bray them very small and fine till they be as tough as waxe, then take a quart of cla∣risted Honny, and cast the Dates therein till they bee dissolued, then take halfe an ounce of long Pepper, as much of Mace and Cloues, and Nutmegs beaten in fiue powder, then seeth the

Dates and Honny ouer a soft fire, then cast on the powder by little and little, and stirre it very fast, and let it seeth long, till it wexe thicke, then set it to ecole, and put it in close Boxes, and eate therefore first and last: and it shall restore a man bee hee neuer so weake or lowe brought: vse this some-times vppon a full stomacke, and you shall not surfet, proued by M. Baltazer Chirurgian.