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 .56. Chapter doth shew of the haire of a man.

CApillus or Capilli be the latin words. In gréeke it is named Thrix. In English it is a haire* 1.1 of a mans head.

Crinis is the latin word for a womans haire. Pili is the latin word for beastes haire. And all maner of haires be in∣gendered and doth come of a grose matter or fume being hot, wherefore this cōmon prouerbe is vsed in latin, that Vir pi∣losus semper est luxuriosus, that is to say, man that is full of haire is euer venerious, vnlesse grace (as I say) worke aboue nature. There be .vii. principall colours of haires. There is first alborne haire, yelow haire, red haire, black haire, flexen haire, gray haire, & white haire. Albrone haire, & yelow haire commeth of a gentill nature, grounded vpon a good cōplexiō

which is bloud, flexen haue is engendred of fleume, the red haire is engendred of the multitude of grosse humours, spe∣cially of grosse bloud. The blacke haire commeth of cole∣ricke humours mixt with melancoly humours. The gray-haires do come of the defection of naturall haire, or else it doth come of corrupt fleume. Euerie haire hath a hole, and beside euery haire is a pore wher the sweat doth come forth. The haires of man haue diuers impediments, it may bee eaten with wormes, it may fall of, it may stinke.

The falling of the haire, looke in the Chapter named Alo∣pecra.

A remedie.

If y^e haire be eaten with wormes, take a pint of white wine & stampe .iii. heades of Garlyke with .ii. handfuls of worme∣wood & boyle al together and wash the head. Or els an oynt∣mēt named Psilotiū. Or els desolue an vnce of Aloes caba∣lin in a pinte of wine and wash the head ii. or .iii. times.

To make haires to grow and that they shall not fall.

Take of the oyle named in latin, Olium costinum, & anoint the head with it ofte.

To make haires to fall.

Take of arsnecke an vnce, of vnstaked lyme halfe an vnce, myxe this together with vineger, and washe or anoynt the place diuers times. Or else take of the oyle of Henbane, of the oyle of Mandragor of each halfe an vnce, compound this with the bloud of a backe or a flytter mouse, and anoynt the place.

Notes

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  Haire.