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 328. Chapter doth shew of a mans Splene.

SPlen* 1.1 is the greke worde. In latin it is named Lien or Li∣ena. In English it is named a mans splene which is a spongious substance lying vnder the short ribbes in the left syde, and it doth make a man to be mery and to laughe, al∣though melancoly resteth in the splene, if there be impedi∣mentes or sickenes in it, as sorow, pencifulnes, and care, and anger, or such like, maketh many men and women to haue such impedimentes in the splene, as opilacions and ap∣postumes, and such like. Melancoly-meates, hard chéese, and feare is not good for the splene, and if any man be spleniticke let him vse mery company, & let him be let bloud of a veine named Saluatella, of the left side, some doth vse to let bloud in a veine named Basilica on the left side, but I say that euery thing which doth hurt the liuer, doth hurt the splene, and euery thing that is good for the liuer, is also good for the splen: and whosoeuer will make the hardnes of the splene whole, fyrst take the mary of a calfe, & the mary of an hart, and the fatnes of a hog, of a Capon, and of a Ducke, and the oyle of swéete Almons of like porcion, myxe this together,

and anoint the region of the splene, and dry the lungs of a Foxe, make pouder and eate it with figges, for this matter looke in the Chapter named Lien in the Extrauagantes in the ende of this booke.

For splenatica passio, looke in the Extrauagants in the ende of this booke.

For Sputum sanguinis, looke in the Chapter named E∣moptoica passio.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The splen