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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A remedy.

Take of Rose water, & of plantaine water, of either of them halfe a pint, of white wine as much, put this together and wash the place oft. Or els take of red wormes the which do

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come out of ye earth & bray thē in a morter, & put to them a little vineger & make plaisters. &c. Or els take of the flowers of Camomil, of Rose leues, of Violets, the weight of either of thē an vnce, of Mirtilles, of Sumacke, of either of them an vnce & a half, seth al this in white wine & make a plaister & lay it to the place, or els take ye ointment of Ceruse, I haue taken houselike & haue stamped it with a litle Cāphire and haue put to it white wine and haue laid it to the place, and haue healed the pacient, and the oile of Roses, or the oile of Violettes bee good for this impediment, mixt together with the white of egges and the iuyce of Plantayne.

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