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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Title: 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.
Author: Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: By Thomas East,; 1587.
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The 256. Chapter doth shew of the kindes of the Cramp.

OPisthotonos is the Gréeke word, in Latin it is named Conuultio retrossa. In english it is named a Cramp,* 1.1 the which doth draw the head backward towards the shoulders, some latenist doth name it Rigor ceruicis, & some doth name it Spasmus retrossus.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come thorow the attraction of the si∣newes and for lacke of blude, it may come by a feare or an∣ger, or by a strayne.

A remedy.

For this matter beware of anger and feare, and vsing of ve∣nerious actes after replectiō, and then take of musterd sedes made in fine pouder and vnce, put it into vineger, & thā vse fri¦caciōs & great rubbing about y^e neck & forehead & the tēples.

Optique and some do name it Oblique is a sinew that doth rule the eye, and it hath two braunches.

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A kinde of Cramp

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