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.

To make Oyle of Rew.

¶ Take rew leaues and cut them small, then put them in a pot with common oyle, the space of nine or twelue dayes, then séeth them till they be wasted to the third part, then straine it, and this oyle is very good for to restraine from all manner of priuie causes of pestilence, which are remaining within a man, woman, or child.