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 heale wounds, and to knit and heale broken bones.

¶ Take Betony, Bugle, Sauigle, Pimpernell, Milfoile, Strawberry leaues, Orpin, Sage, Mouseare, Emerose, Tan∣sie, Sothernwood, hearbe Robert, hearbe Water, Egrimony, Plantaine, Solcirkle, Auence, Madder, Daisies, Camphire, Osmond, the crop of the red Colewort, the crop of the red bryer, the red Nettle crop, of the crops of Hempe, take of each a like much saue of the Madder by waight, then take these hearbes and stampe them small, and take May butter made of rawe Creame, Ewe milke, with dew water of May, and if that you can get no Ewe milke, take the Butter of Cowe milke of the yellowest colour that can be found, for it is far better then the white, and take a quart of Butter, halfe a quarterne of Mede

waxe, and melt the Butter and the Waxe together: and when they be molten, let the Butter and waxe run through a cloth, for then is the Butter clarified from the Waxe, and shread the Butter and the Curds a sunder, or else it will neuer do so wel, and then let thy Butter kéele, and when it is colde then take and put thereto thrée pound of thy hearbes, and halfe a pounde of Butter, and cast them in a Morter, and stampe them small, till you can sée nothing of the Eutter, and then doo it in a newe earthen pot, and close it fast that no ayre come forth, and when all is in the pot, make it sure that no wormes may gette in, nor that no ayre (as I said before) gette out: then set it in a moist place, and so let it stand for nine dayes at the least, and then it wil be hoare aboue: then take it out of the pot, & do it in a faire panne, and set it on the fire and fry them well together, and stirre it well, and when it is hote enough, take it from the fire and wring it through a cloth, and let it stand till it be cold, and then kerne it and let out the water, and then doo it into the pan and melt it againe: then doo it vp in boxes, and kéepe the same to your vse.