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 135. Chapter doth shew of the kindes of feuers in generall.

FEbris is the latin word. In gréeke it is named Piretos. In English it is named a Feuer* 1.1 of an Agne. A Feuer is an vnnatural heat grounded in the heart and liuer, setting all the body out of temper or temperance. And there be twen∣tie kindes of Feuers. First is Febris ephimera, otherwise

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named Febris diaria, then is Febris cotidiana, Febris in∣terpolata, Febris terciana, Febris puartana, Febris sino∣chos, otherwise named Febris continua, thē is Febris sino∣cha, Febris homothena, Febris augmastica, Febris epama∣stica, Febris causon or causos, or Febris ardents, thē is Fe∣bris putrida, or humoralis, Febris emphisodes, Febris emi∣tricea, Febris epialtes, or Febris epiala, or Febris epialia, then is Febris lipparia, Febris tetrathea, Febris errati∣ca, Febris hectica, and Febris pestilencialis, for all these Feuers looke in their Chapters folowing, and there you shal sée the English words for these aforesayd latin wordes.

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