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.

The remedie.

¶ Take Holly-hock, Licoris, Lintséede, dry Figges, Lillie∣rootes, and Iiniper berries, séeth them long in water, after doe away the licoris & the Iiniper berries, and bray well the other, then put thereto Barly meale, Lintseed, Fenegréek, and boile al these together well, and annoynt it first with fresh Butter, and this ripeth postumes within & without, and it is good in an harde and dry impostume though it waxe as hard as a stone: repercu∣tions to smite inward, the matter againe shoulde not be vsed in children nor in old men, neither where matter is wooddish or seruent, nor where the water is much, now and then in the bur∣ning of sicknes, in the nigreforiis as gréeueth, when the postume or botch commeth of nobler lim or member then it is on, then shal he be riped there, and not driuen away frō destinary dread of the better member, the which abréeding of the postume, and of the venimous matter thereof, repercutions must be taken in time ere that the matter be ful seged, and ere it be corrupt and rotten, and that is good commonly with the iuyce of cold hearbs as petty morrell, purslaine of the wood, and vmbelicus veneris, with oyle of roses, and a little aysell, a little Bole armoniack, and cold oyntments, as Popilion or vnguentum album, or the colde

oyntment Iusquinianus, and Poppy and lead, and seeth greene Plantaine, and Vinegar, and the white of an Egge.