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.

For to make vnguentum popilcon.

¶ Take thrée or foure pound of Poppy séede, and two or three pound of hearb Walter, one pound of Henbane, and one pound of pety Morrell, and one pound of Orpine, and one pound of Singrene, and one pound of Endiue, one pound of Plantain, and one pound of Violets, and one pound of water Cresses, one pound of Mandrake, and one pound of Peniwort: take all these and stamp them in a morter, and doo therto thrée or foure pound of Barrowes greace molten, and bind them well together, and then set them in an earthen pot well closed in a moist place, and so let it stand nine daies, and on the tenth day set them on the fire, and doo therto a quart of white Wine, and let them seethe well together, and then wring them through a strainer a little and a little till it be cold, and when it is cold doo it in boxes, and this oyntment is good for many sores.