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.

A soueraigne water against melancholly, and drinke to comfort the stomacke.

¶ Take a pounde of Aqua vitae. and put thereto a quart of Redrose water, put into it as much Licoris sliced and scraped as you may hold in both your hands, but if it be English Lico∣ris you may take lesse, put thereto as much Anniseede as you thinke will be sufficient to make it taste well thereof: stew all these with a soft fire well couered with an earthen pot that the ayre doo not goe out to your iudgement, till that a pinte thereof be consumed: let it not boyle in any case but stewe softly, this done, take it from the sire, and let it scand and coole: and when it is cold draw it from the seede and Licoris, and put it into the wicker glasse or bottle, but bruse it that your water may be as cleere as you can, and when neede requireth occupy it.