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 320. Chapter doth shew of an hard or dence apostumacion.

* 1.1SEphiros is the greke word. In english it is named an hard apostumacion in the flesh vnder the skinne.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come either of a grosse or viscus

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fleume, or else of a melancoly humour, and if it be whitish, it doth come of fleum, if it be swart it doth come of melācoly

A remedie.

First take the sirupe of Buglosse, and of the sirupe of Fu∣mitery, of eche an vnce and a halfe, myxe them together and drinke it with the water of Fumitery, & than take Doues doung thrée vnces, of wheaten bran an handful, and séeth it in vineger and make plaisters.

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