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 2, 2024.
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The 351. Chapter doth shew of drawing of a mans mouth toward the eare.
TOrtura oris be the latin wordes.* 1.1 Almansor doth name it Cōtractio. In english it is named a Palsy which is false, for it is more néerer a cramp then a palsy, for it doth attract the sinewes of those partes.
The cause of this impediment.
This impediment doth come of coldnes taken, or els of anger, or of a spice of a perticuler palsy.
A remedy.
Take of musterd halfe a pinte, and let the pacient with his owne hande take two or thrée sponefulles in his handes chafing the one hand with the other, and than let him make frications, redusing the side of the mouth the which is draw∣en to the one side to bring it to the othe side, doe thus .v. dayes, and vse diuers times gargarices and sternutacions.