A quilt for the rume, a speedy remedie, proued often.
¶ Take of Olibanum, Bengeum, Storax Calamita, of each of these halfe a dram, of Labdanum two drams, of Nutmegs, and
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 May 1, 2024.
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Cloues, of each halfe a dram, of Commin a scruple, Masticke halfe a dram, of Maces half a scruple, of Iugula Romana a dram, of Bay berries a scruple, of the flower of Roses, of Camomell, of Violets, of each a dram: of the flowers of Betony a scruple, beat all these into grosse pouders, and so let them be quilted with good red Scarlet flocks, in a péece of black Sarcen••t, and so be laid vpon the head to the nape of the necke, and let it lye there the space of twenty houres, and then turne it, and thus for the rume it is most excellent.