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.

A remedie.

First make a trusse to kéepe in y^e guts that they doe not fall out of the belly, & than take y^e rootes of Knewholme iiii. vn∣ces, of Polipody ii. vnces, of Auince an handfull & a halfe, of Centinody, of Mouseare, of eche of thē ii. handfulls, stamp al this together in a morter, & than infuse it in a quart of stale Ale, & let it stand iiii. or v. houres, then streine & drink of it morning & euening ix. sponefuls, continue this xxi. daies or more. If a rupture doe continue iii. yeres in a man, he can not be made whole without incision or cutting, for the belly at that side that the rupture is in must be cut, & the call or pellicle that the guts doth lye in must be cut away that doth hang out, & so must one of the stones, if the stone be putrifi∣ed, and than must the Siphac be bounde & knit or sewed vp againe and than sered, and so than made whole with salues, this must be done of some expert chirurgion with the coūcel of some phisicion, the which hath both speculacion & practise.