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.
Author
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 31, 2024.

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For the stone a remedy.

¶ Take Reysons, vnset Léekes, Sappifrage, Samphire, Auence, Beane-cods, still each one by it selfe, and fine them in the Sunne, and take of each a like much, and put thereto as much Malmesie as of the waters, and still them altogether a∣gaine, and fine it in the Sunne, and when the patient is grée∣ued and at no time else let un drinke thereof thrée spoonefuls at a time, and that will be sufficient enough at once, and heate it luke warme, and put in a little powder of Giues, and drinke it, and lay him downe to sweat. Also tak Sapifrage, and still the same with water, and make thereof a firrop, as though it were with Roses, and put thereto a quantitie of Sugar, and eate it, and it will breake the stone meruailously.

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