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 253. Chapter doth shew of an impedi∣ment named Obliuiousnes.

OBliuio is the latin word. In greke it is named Lithi. In English it is named obliuiousnes* 1.1 or forgetfulnes.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of reume or some ventositie, or of some colde humor lying about the braine, it may come of solicitudenes or great study, occupyīg y^e memory so much that it is fracted, and the memory fracted, there must néedes then be obliuiousnes, & it may come to yoūg men and wo∣men when their mind is bréeched.

A remedy.

First beware & eschewe all such thinges as do make or in∣gender obliuiousnes, & than vse the cōfection of Anacardine, and smell to odiferous & redolēt sauours, and vse the things or medicines the which is specified in the chapter named A∣nima and Memoria. A medicine for bréeched persons, I do not know except it be Vnguentum baculinum, as it doth ap∣pere in the Chapter named the Feuer lurden.

For Ocdema looke in the Chapter named Vndemia.

For Occomia loke in y^e Extrauagāts in y^e end of this boke.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Obliui∣ousnes.