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.
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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 June 11, 2024.

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To make a water for a cut or wound.

¶ Take a pottle of faire running water, and séeth it on the fire, and let it séeth a while, then take two peny worth of white Copperis, as much of Bole armoniack, and foure peny worth of Camphire, and beat them altogether in powder, and put them all together into the water, and let them séethe a little while, and then take it off the fire, and when it is colde put it into a

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Glasse, drosse and all: and when it is occupied poure out a lit∣tle into a sawcer of the cléerest water, and none of the bottome or drosse: and set it vpon the coles, and wash the wound as hote as he may suffer it, and then take a little linnen cloth, and dou∣ble it thrée or foure times double: and wet it in the water, and lay it to the wound as hote as the patient may suffer the same, and binde it fast.

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