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 June 5, 2024.

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A salue to heale all manner of sores, and especially for afresh wound.

¶ Take of oyle Oliue and Turpentine a like much, a pret∣tie quantitie, of Rosemary-leaues pricked, boyle all these toge∣ther, and in boyling put thereto a spoonefull of faire water, and let thē boyle together vntill the water be consumed as an oynt∣ment, and when it is boyled, straine it hote and warme, and let it stand in a vessell of earth, and when ye shall occupie it, heate

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it ouer the fire, and against the fire dresse the sore, so that the fire may dry the oyntment, and if neede bee, that there be no dead flesh, lay lint in the salue, and lay it hote against the sore, and if it neede to be tented, then tent it with a tent of the same oyntment hote, and lay vpon the tent a plaister of hote cleauing salue, and it will cure any wound or sore.

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