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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Medicine, Popular
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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 October 31, 2024.
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The vertue of this water aforesaid.
¶ This water is of secret nature, it is excéeding good for the stomacke, it dissolueth the lungs without any gréeuance, and the same lungs beeing wounded and putrified it mightilie hel∣peth them, and comforteth them, and it suffereth not the body to putrifie.
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Also he shall neuer néede to be let blood, and this water suffe∣reth not the body to be brent with choller, nor yet with melan∣cholly nor slemot to be lift vp and haue dominion aboue water, and this water mightily expelleth the rume, and profiteth much the stomack, it ingendreth good colour, and keepeth and conser∣ueth the visage and memory.
Also it is good for the palsie, if the said water be giuen to man or woman labouring towards death one spoonfull, it relenteth them: of all waters artificiall there is no better.
Also vse in Sommer once a wéeke a spoonfull of this water fa∣sting, and in Winter time two spoonefuls: it is good for women that haue the gréene sicknesse, and for diuers other causes: per Doctorem Willowbie.
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