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 cause of this inflacion.

¶ The cause is, when the poores be opened out or aboue all naturall courses, it doeth let in subtyll wind, the which doth make inflacion, or els the poores opened, coldnesse descending from the brayne, is reuerberated into the ventricles of the brayne agayne, & maketh inflacion which is a periculus pas∣sion, & doth put a man in peril and ieopardie of death, for the which is good the confection of Muske, & diatesseron and the electuarie of Gemmis, and pilles of Elephangyne is good to purge the brayne, & Oximell squilite compound, is good for opilacions of the brayne. And to know whether a man be in∣fected with this infirmitie or not, one may know it by these signes, inflacion or swelling will be about the temples, and the head or face they wil swell and be redde, and the pacient shall not well heare, and an agùe wyll be concurrant with the infirmitie.

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