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 .49. Chapter doth shew of a grosse impo∣stume named Bubo.

BVbo is the Latin word.* 1.1 In english it is named a grosse impostume. And there be certeine kindes, some be pesti∣ferous, and some be not pestiferous.

The cuase of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come vnder this maner, grosse féeding doth make grosse humours, and grosse and corrupt humours doth make many diseases, speicially it doth ingender this a∣forsayd infirmitie.

A remedy.

If this infirmitie doth come of a pestiferous matter looke in the chapter named Carbūculus. If it do come of no pestife∣rous matter. First take a clister, or a suppositor, or some easy purgacion. And after y^t take of oyle oliue an vnce, mixt with bay salt, and lay it ouer the sore. And after that if it doe not breake, make an incisiō or a corosiue. And then vse salues w^t tētes attractiue. And y^e matter abstracted which is the cause of the anguishe or paine, then I do say as the Philosopher doth say. Deficient causa defecit effectus, that is to say, take away y^e cause, or els the cause lacking, the effect is to no pur∣pose. Or els take the matter as thus. Take away the cause of y^e sicknes. And y^e sicknesse can do no harme, but health shal folow. And the cause not takē away of the infirmitie, y^e sick∣nesse must nedes remayne and continue in the body, or els in some perticuler member it must remayne or rest.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Apostum.