Volume 2

The path-way to health : wherein are to be found most excellent and approved medicines ... as also notable potions and drinks, with the art of distilling ... waters, for making of oyls, and other comfortable receits for the health of the body ... / now newly corrected and augmented.

Peter Levens

Date:: 1654

Credit: The path-way to health : wherein are to be found most excellent and approved medicines ... as also notable potions and drinks, with the art of distilling ... waters, for making of oyls, and other comfortable receits for the health of the body ... / now newly corrected and augmented. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$and for divers infirmicies this water is good, as to breake wind in the belly, for them thatq}iliid cannot reli(h or difgeft their meats, and fost divers other cold caufes; this water wil makec\\ a man to live long, and to keep and prefervee ahi i a man long in health, and co make a man tcopitttt! look young againe. if For to make pety Balme. ' Take fine neat oyle a pint, and putit in aajfity cleafie pan, and feeth.it wel over che firez jill then put thy hands in cold water and let isfy drop thereon, and it wil creame, and when it«} it Jeaveth creaming put it to the fire againe.,/}i and lericfeeth wel, and doe fo three or four}ai times with your hands, then take halfe amit ounce of Maftick, as much of Frankinfence,,jf as much of Rofen, a quarter of an ounce olfftt Verdigreace ; make all thefe into powder byy}i): themfelves, then put them into the oyle, andiialy; let them feeth wel together, and {tirre ic welllf i: and {cum ic cleane, then let ic coole, them} ja putic REET vefiel, and this is a good}, Balme, | For to make Aqua vite perfectifima, | per Si KR, t Take the roote of Saxifrage, Parfley, Alt--fflyj, fander, Fennel, Time, If fope, Penniroyal 5.) Rofemary, Lavender, Primrofe, Mints, Raeg,jhi Betony, Savine, Sage, Avence, Calamint, ofits éach of thele herbs halfe a quarter, cthempn,, take]$