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 .87. Chapter doth shew of defnes.

COpolisis, is the gréeke worde.* 1.1 In latin it is named Surditas. In English it is named a man that can not heare.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment may come to a man iii. maner of waies, either it doth come by nature, or els accidētal, by some strok, or stripe, or brose, or fall, or els it doth come by an humour, the which doth opilate or stoppe the Organs of hearing.

A remedy.

It doth come by nature, y^t is to say, that one is borne def, there is no maner of remedy, but onely God to do a miracle. It it come accidentally, as by a stroke, a stripe, a brose, or a fal, or such like, & that by it the Organs of hearing be closed vp, there is no remedy but only God, if it do come of an hu∣mour there is remedy, as thus. First put nothing into y^e eare except it be warme as bloud. Than take the gall of an Hare & mixe it with the grece of a Foxe, & with blacke wol instill it into the eare. Or els take the fatnes of a balson ele and in∣tinct blacke woll into it, & put it into the eare. Or else take of the iuyce of Wormewood & temper it with the gall of a bul, and intinct blacke woll into it, and put it into the eare.

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