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 October 31, 2024.

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The manner and vse to be obserued and kept in the time of curing of a fistula.

¶ First you must search the vlcer with your tonte, to know the depth and the length thereof, that you may knowe of what fise to make your tente, and annoynt the sore onlie with Popu∣lion, and your tent also, and dippe the ende therof in the powder following for two daies, once a day dresse it with your powder, and other two daies with nothing but Populion to remooue the aker, and thus inlarge your tent till the worke be knowne vn∣to you, so long as it casteth a blocky, maulte gory, stinking, or bloodie water, still vse your powder vntill it come grosse, thick, and white, and then apply mundisters or clensers, and the vl∣cer clensed, then vse incarnatiues, as the gréene balme before written, & other that followe: alwaies rather shortening your tent, and making of it lesse till you be assured of the victory for sigilation, sealing or sinking of the water that hereafter shall follow termed mother and the congelour.

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