The 159. Chapter doth shew of a sicknes named ficus in Ano.
FIcus in ano be the latin wordes. In english it is named a figge* 1.1 in a mans foundemēt, for it is a postumacion like
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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- 1587.
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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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a figge or a lumpe of flesh in the longacion like a figge. And some men say it is a lumpe of flesh like a figge growing in the longacion which is in the foundement.
The cause of this infirmitie.
This impediment doth come of a melancoly humour the which doth discend to the longacion or fundement.
A remedy.
First purge the matter with the confection of Hameke, or with ye pilles of Lapides lazule, or with Yera ruffini, than take of ye pouder of a dogges hed burnt, & mixt it with ye iuice of Pimpernel, and make tentes & put into the foundement.
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* 1.1
A figge.