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 66. Chapter doth shew of a Catharact.

CAtharacta is y^e barbarous worde. In gréeke it is named Ypechime. In English it is named a Catharact,* 1.1 y^e which doth let a man to sée perfectly.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of a grosse & a waterish humour, the which doth lye before the sight, letting a man to see clere∣lie, for he can not deserne a farre of a crow from a man, nor a beast from a bush, and of one thing, he shall sée two things, although it be but one thing.

A remedy.

First beware of any thing the which should fume into the head, as wine, Garlike, Onions, the fatnesse of fish, and such like. Then vse gargarisacions and sternutacions, as I haue rehersed in this booke in many Chapters. And beware of costiuenes, and vse purgacions to purge the head and stomake, as pilles of Cochée and such like.

Notes

• * 1.1

  A catha¦ract.