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 excellent Millilot plaister.

¶ Take of gréene Millilot brused ten handfuls, boyle it in a pottell of white Wine to the wasting of the halfe, and straine it, then put therto of Rozen a pound, Waxe as much, Shéepes tallow foure vnces Turpentine three vnces, Mastick one vnce, boyle all saue the Mastick, vntill the wasting of the iuice more then halfe, then bruse other sixe handfuls of Millilot, and put to it while it is a boyling, and stir it well while it hath a play or two, then take it from the fire, and straine it while it is hete through a course canuas bag, and with wringing and iumping betweene two round staues, till by little and little, the stuffe, gums, and iuyce be come all out as much as you can get, and when you may handle it, put therto your vnces of Mastick fine∣lie powdered, and make it in rowles, mingle your Mastick in the handling thereof.

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