The breuiarie of health vvherin doth folow, remedies, for all maner of sicknesses & diseases, the which may be in man or woman. Expressing the obscure termes of Greke, Araby, Latin, Barbary, and English, concerning phisick and chirurgerie. Compyled by Andrew Boord, Doctor of phisicke: an English-man.
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The breuiarie of health vvherin doth folow, remedies, for all maner of sicknesses & diseases, the which may be in man or woman. Expressing the obscure termes of Greke, Araby, Latin, Barbary, and English, concerning phisick and chirurgerie. Compyled by Andrew Boord, Doctor of phisicke: an English-man.
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Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549.
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Imprinted at London :: By Thomas East,
1587.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"The breuiarie of health vvherin doth folow, remedies, for all maner of sicknesses & diseases, the which may be in man or woman. Expressing the obscure termes of Greke, Araby, Latin, Barbary, and English, concerning phisick and chirurgerie. Compyled by Andrew Boord, Doctor of phisicke: an English-man." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16466.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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The .17. Chapiter doth shew of a sicknes in the flesh, which is puffed vp like a sponge, the flesh being softe and the skinne dankish.
ANasarca, or Iposarca, be the gréeke wordes. In english it is one of the kindes of Hydropsies, it is a waterish hu∣mour which runneth bytwixt the fleshe and the skin, and some doth say, it is in the fleshe and the skin. And this infirmitie doth make the flesh and the skin to puffe like a
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sponge and doth make ye flesh dankysh. Some auctours doth name this infirmity Iposarca, & some doth name it Sarcites.
The cause of this infirmitie
This infirmitie doth come of a salt waterish humour.
A remedy.
First vse a precise diet, not to eate contagious meates, than vse stuphes, and easy purgations, as it appeareth in the die∣tarie of Health.