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.

An oyntment for shrunken sinewes & aches soueraigne.

¶ Take eight Swallowes ready to flye out of the nest, driue away the bréeders when you take them out, and let them not touch the earth, stampe them vntill the feathers can not be perceaued, put to it Lauender cotten, of the strings of Straw∣beries, the tops of mother Time, the tops of Rosemary, of each a handfull, take all their waight of May butter, and a quart more, stamp all the feathers that nothing can be perceaued in a stone morter, then make it vp in balls, and put it into an ear∣then pot for eight dayes close stopped that no ayre take them, take it out, and on a soft fire as may be séethe it so that it doo but simper, then straine it, and so reserue it to your vse.