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.

Another oyntment for a man that is scabbed.

¶ Take fiue or sixe handfuls of Horehound, and séeth it in running water till it be halfe sodden away, and then wash the sicke therewith as hote as he may suffer it, and then looke that you haue ready this oyntment made of these hearbs: take the roote of the red Dockes, and the roote of Selidon, and then take Wormewood and Alleluia, of each a like much, and bray them well together, and doo therto a good portion of May butter, and stampe them well together, and so let them stand seauen daies, and then fry it, and straine it as thou doost another oyntment, and therewith annoynt the sicke when he is washed, and hée shall be whole.