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 June 10, 2024.
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The .203. Chapter doth shewe of a kinde of Leprousnes named Leonia.
LEonia is the greke word.* 1.1 In english it is named the Li∣ons prosperitie, for this word is deriued out of Leo leo∣nis, which is in English a Lyon, for as the Lyon is most fearcest of all other beasts, so is ye kinde of Leprousnes most worst of al other sicknesses, for it doth corode and eate the flesh to the bones, and the flesh doth rot away.
The cause of these infirmities.
This infirmitie doth come either by kinde, or els a
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child conceiued when the mother is menstrumous, it may come also of putrified coller and melancoly.
A remedie.
If this infirmitie do come by nature or kind, or by any menstrous humour there is not remedy, but onely God and pacience. If it doe come of a venemous humour, as a melāco∣ly humour or such lyke, purge the humour, as it is specified in ye Chapter named Melancolia, and vse stuphes & bathes, and purgations, & vse the diet & the medicines, as is speci∣fyed of Lignum vite, or Guaicum, and beware of grosse mea∣tes eating, and of repletion.