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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Medicine, Popular
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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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To make the oyle of Exceter.
¶ Take two pounde of Cowslip flowers in May, and put them in oyle Oliue, and then put them in an Earthen pot close, vntill the month of Iune, then take these hearbes following, Lorrell, Ambrose, calamint, pellitorie of Spaine, Sage, Peri∣tory, Scabions, Lauender, hearbe Iohn, Lilly roetes, Rosema∣rie, of each a handfull: bray all these in a Morter, then take the Cowslips out of the oyle, and bray them as you doe the other hearbes, then put them in a pan and boyle them together softly, till all the water be cleane sodden away, for if the water bee in the bottome, let it seeth till it be wasted, and then straine them through a cloth with cleane hands, and when your oyle is kind∣ly wrought, then put it in pots or glasses, and stop it from the ayre. This oyle is good for all aches, except the Gout.
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