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.

A good oyntment for the scabbes and for itching of the body.

¶ Take foure vnces of oyle de bay, and an vnce of Fran∣kensence, and two vnces of white Waxe, and thrée vnces of Swines greace, and an vnce of Quicksiluer that must be slack∣ed with fasting spittle, an vnce of great Salt, as much of the one as of the other, and of all these make an ointment, and if the scabs or itch be vpon all the whole body as wel aboue the girdle as beneath, then when thou goest to bed wash both thy hands and thy feet with warme water, and supple them well therein by the fire, and after dry them with a cloth of linnen, then take vp with thy fingers of that oyntment, and doo it in the palmes of thy hands, and on the soles of thy féete, and rub it well toge∣ther that it may drinke in well •…•…nd if it doo soke in well, thou must put gloues on thy hands, and socks on thy féete, and thus doo euery night when thou doost goe to bed, and if the scab or itch be aboue the girdle and not beneath, thē anoynt but thy hands, and if the scab be beneath the girdle, then looke that you anoynt the soles of your féete, and the scab or itch be in all thy body as well aboue the girdle as beneath, then thou must anoynt both thy hands and thy féete as thou sittest by the fire, and thou shalt be whole: this hath béen prooued.