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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Title: 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.
Author: Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: By Thomas East,; 1587.
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Subject terms: Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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The 47. Chapter doth shew of the stringe or mary in a mans backe.

NVca is the latin worde. In greke it is named Nucha. In English it is named the newke which is the mary of the strynge in the backe bone and it is much like to the braine of a mans head in coullor and in it may be great de∣billitie and weakenes, & it may be burst or cut a sunder by some stripe, brose, or fall, whē y^e back is broken a sunder & if the newke be broken it can neuer be made whole, the backe may be set agayne in ioynt, how be it there shall neuer re∣mayne a curuitie and crokednes.

A remedy to comfort the newke.

All restoratiue thinges doth comfort the newke and so doth swete wines as Muscadell, Basterde, Aligant, and the vsage of clary is good to eate sodden or fryed with the yolkes of egges, and euery thing that is restoratiue is good.