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 160. Chapter doth shew of Flebothomy or letting of bloud.
* 1.1FLebothomia is deriued out of two words of greke of Fle∣bi, that is to say a veine, & Temno, that is to say opening or cutting, so that Flebothomia is opening or cutting of a veyne. In latin it is named Minucio sāguinis. In english it is named letting of bloud, there be two weyes, one in ope∣ning of a veyne, and the other is by boxing or cupping. Here I doe aduertise euery Chirurgion, how, whan, and at what time they doe let any man bloud, except that they do know the operacion of the signes, and do cōsider the age & strength of the pacient, & for what maner of disease the pacient shuld be let bloud.
For Fluxus, looke in the Chapter named Diarrhea.
For Fluxus sanguinis, looke in ye Chapter named Sanguis