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.

The .25. Chapiter doth shew of a mans ars or fundement.

ANus, is the latin word. In gréeke it is Grans. In eng∣lishe it is a mans ars, let euery man kéepe that place cleane. And let not other man make no restrictions that nature would expel, other by egestion, or by ventositie. In the aforesayd place is ingēdred y^e pyles or Emerodes, Fys∣tles, & Festures, Cākers, y^e Poxes, & Ficus in Ano, & diuers times y^e longatiō which is the ars gut, doth fal out of y^e body, & otherwhile many men can not kéepe their egestiō but flée∣ping & waking they do defile themselues, for all which mat∣ters looke in the Chapiters of the prenominated infirmities.

A remedy for falling out of the fundement.

First beware of taking cold in that place. And beware of costifnes. And kéepe the ars & buttokes warme. And sit not on y^e could earth, nor vpon stone or stones, nor vpon no harde thing, but take somewhat vnder the buttockes, but onelie for falling out of the longacion, or ars gut, but for al other infirmities that may be in the longation ingendred.

For falling out of the longacion.

Take of Myrtilles .iii. vnces, of Iuneper cut in smal péeces iiii. vnces, séeth it in water and wash the place. And after that make a perfume of Iuneper & sit ouer it. Or els make a perfume of Benguin, Myre, or Frankensence. Or els take

the inward rine or barke of an Oke, séeth it in water with Galls & washe the place, & drink of Galbanū with stale ale, and lay the substance of it to y^e nauel, it is good for the falling of the moder. And for these impediments in a mans funde∣mēt or ars, it is good to anoint y^e place with oyle of linsedes

Notes

• An ars.