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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To make an oyle for many greefes.

¶ Take Mirrhe, Aloes exaticum, Spignard, Sandragon, Incense, Sarazens flesh, Bedilium, Balme séede, gum Aroma∣tick,

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Siracell, Mastick, Saffron, gum Arabek, Storax liquida, of each of these two ounces, Labdanum, Castor, of each 2. oun∣ces, Muske, and Turpentine, as much, make powder of all that wil be powdered, and meddle them with Turpentine, and still them in a glasse as you doo Rosewater, and keepe it in a ve∣ry strong glasse. This oyle kéepeth the substance of mans lims and the sinewes, and keepeth dead folkes from rotting, béeing medled with the oyle of Roses, and annoynt all thy back from the hart of the fore-head to the raynes, and it maketh a leane body fat: and if the backe be annoynted before the axis, it hel∣peth the Feauers, and for him that may not speake: it is good for the rising of the Mother, for the falling euill, for to be put in his eares, and in his nose.

Also it is good for them that be sorry without a cause, and for them that be drunke with Wine: and it is comfortable for all diseases be they hote or cold. prooued.

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