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 .298. Chapter doth shew of a mans Lunges.

PVlmo is the latin word. In greke it is named Pneumon. In english it is named a mans lungs,* 1.1 which be hot and moist, & in the Lungs may be many infirmities, as spitting of bloud, vlceracion & filthie matter, & such like. Also it may haue iiii. maner of sicknesses, as Astma, Disma, Sansugiū, & Occomia, as it doth appere in their Chapters in this booke, and in the Extrauagants.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This impediment doth come of great cold, euill diet, & surfe∣ting, it may come by great labour, lifting or straining.

A remedie.

A Ptisane is good for the Lungs, & so is the vsage of Lico∣rice. Or else take of Sinamon, Galbanū, Castory .iii. drams, of Storax, Calamint, of Licorice, Of Dragagant, of eche a dram, of Opium, of Saffron, of eche v. drams, confect this together with Idromel, and make pilles of this & vse them, and eate no Nuttes, nor chéefe, nor Apples, and such lyke.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The lūgs