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.

To make water of life.

¶ Take Balme leaues and stalkes, Burnet leaues, and flowers a handfull, of Rosemary, Turmentile leaues and roots, Rosa solis a handfull, red Roses a handfull, Carnations a hand∣full, Isope a handfull, a handfull of Time, red strings that grow vpon Sauery a handfull, red Fenell leaues and rootes a handfull, red Mints a handfull: put all these hearbs into a pot of earth glased, and put therto as much white Wine as will co∣uer the hearbs, and let them soke therein eight or nine dayes: then take an vnce of Cinamon, as much of Ginger, as much of Nutmegs, Cloues, and Saffron a like quantity, of Aniséeds a pound, great Raisons a pound, Suger a pound, halfe a pound of Dates, the hinder part of an olde Coney, a good fleshy run∣ning Capon, the flesh and sinewes of a legge of Mutton, foure young Pigeons, a dozen of Larks, the yel•…•…s of twelue Eggs, a loafe of white bread cut in sippets, Muskadell or Bastard thrée gallons•• or as much in quantity as suffiseth to distill all these things at once in a Limbeck, and thereto put of Methri∣datum two or three vnces, or els with as much perfect Treakle, and distill it with a moderate fire, and keepe the first water by it selfe, and the second water alone also, and when there com∣meth no more water with strings, take away the Limbecke, and put into the pot more Wine vpon the same stuffe, and still it againe and you shall haue an other good water, and shall so remaine good. In the first ingredience of this water you must

kéepe a double glasse warily, for it is a restoratiue of all princi∣pall members, and defendeth against all pestilentiall diseases, as against the Palsie, Dropsie, Splene, yellow or black Iaun∣dise, for wormes in the belly, and for all agues be they hote or cold, and all manner of swellings and pestilentiall sorrowes in man or melancholly and flegmaticke, and it strengthneth and comforteth all the sprites and strings of the braine, as the hart, the milt, the liuer, and the stomacke, by taking thereof two or three spoonefuls at one time by it selfe, or with Ale, Wine, or Béere, and by putting a pretty quantity of Suger therein: al∣so it helpeth disgestion, and dooth breake winde, and stoppeth laske, and bindeth not, and it mightily helpeth and easeth man or woman of the paine of the hart burning, and for to quicken the memory of man: take of this water thrée spoonfuls a day in the morning, and an other after hee goeth to dinner, and the third last at night.