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.

Levens, Peter, active 1587

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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$i Ieye itto his fore-head. Alfo take oyle of iwater Lillies, Poppy, Night-fhade, Rofe- il |\wpater, Vinegar, and womans milk, dip flax ti | cherein, and bind it to his temples : this hath Hit] been often proved. : For paine ix the Eares. yeol } > Take the juyce of wild Cowcumbers, and vik] putit into the eares, and it aflwageth the il{ paine. Alfo puc the wood of green Afhe in 9 04 che fire, andfayethe liquor thae cometh out jat che end, and putie into the eares, it caule- jeth the pain forto ceafe, and amendeth the adj hearing. Alfo beat thejuyce of Wormwood, yi: | and drop ic inco the eares : proved, ) For the paine in the Eares. it) Take and mingle the juyce of Betony with wl} oyl of Rofes, and put ic warm: in the eares wt, | with a tent, and ftop them wel.. Alfo take fair yoy} Oy) Olive, and let ic be blown out of a mans wi mouth that is cleane and fafting, inco the i eares of a fick man, let this be done three or | four times, and let chat fide of the head be | turned downward, that the odour of the (| head may run out. Alfotake Almonds, and | the kirnels of Peaches, and let them be cleane pilledin hot water, and make oy! of them, ‘| and letrhe oy! be put into the eares of the nfl emcee I Patient fo grieved. For the paine inthe Eares. : Take oyl of Rofes, and a little Vinegar, _ and 1 i) Ni yb$