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 .57. Chapter doth shew of a mans head.

* 1.1CApud is the latin worde. In gréeke it is named Co∣phales. In Englishe it is named a mans heade, the which is the seate of the soule, and therefore when the hend doth ake, all the body is out of temper. In the head

may be many infirmities, or the Apoplexi, the S••otom••, the Megrym, the Seed, the Phrenises, the falling sicknesse, and diuers other infirmites beside aches, as it shall appeare in their Chapters. As for aches in the head be many. First sher is an ache y^e which doth come by extreme labour. There is an ache the which may come by s〈◊〉〈◊〉 of reume. Then is there ache the which doth come, by extreme colde. There is an ache y^e which may come by ……dition or drinesse in the head. There is an ache the which may come by a bilus humour or by some Apostumaciō. There is an ache y^e which may come by or thorowe dronknnesse▪ There is an ache in the head, y^e which may come by ventositie. There is an ache the which may come by a blow, a strype, or a fall, or any great hurt in the head. There is head ache, the which may come by any maner of feuer and by other certaine sicknesses. And beside al these, aches may be in the head thorow the ca∣lyditie or heate of the sunne, or by intemporancy of the ayer corrupted. And it may come by the euill operacion of the pla∣nets and signes.

A remedy for all these premisses. except dronkennesse.

First vse in all thinges temperaunce, and an order in all thinges, rule the body that it fall not into infirmities, and purge the head oft with gargarices and with shernutacions, with pilles of Cochee, Pillule aggregate Peraviora Galeni, or Yeralogodian ruffi, or Yeralogodian, & Aqua, mel is good.

Notes

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  The head.