The fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge made by Andrew Borde, of physycke doctor : A compendyous regyment; or, A dyetary of helth made in Mountpyllier / compyled by Andrewe Boorde, of physycke doctour. Barnes in the defence of the berde: a treatyse made, answerynge the treatyse of Doctor Borde upon berdes / edited, with a life of Andrew Boorde, and large extracts from his Brevyary, by F.J. Furnivall.

  • Andrew Boorde
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1870
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Credit: The fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge made by Andrew Borde, of physycke doctor : A compendyous regyment; or, A dyetary of helth made in Mountpyllier / compyled by Andrewe Boorde, of physycke doctour. Barnes in the defence of the berde: a treatyse made, answerynge the treatyse of Doctor Borde upon berdes / edited, with a life of Andrew Boorde, and large extracts from his Brevyary, by F.J. Furnivall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To make their masters sport. Then let the Lords reioyce, Let gentlemen heholde the glee, and take thereof the choyce. For my part (being one) I must needes say my minde, That Hunting was ordeyned first for Men of Noble Kinde. And vnto them, therefore, I recommend the same, As exercise that best becommes their worthy noble name.” p. 279. Garlic is good for ‘ longe whyte wormes in the mawe, stomake, and guttes,’ says Boorde: “ If any man wyll take a Plowe- mannes medicine, and the beste medicine for these wormes, and al other wormes in inannes body, let hym eate GerlykeBreuiary, fol. Ixxiii, ch. 212. p. 279. Garlic.—Tharmie this [= thus, in 1512 a.d.] lyngeryng [in Navarre], euer desirous to be at the busines that thei came for, their victaile was muche part Garlike; and the Englishemen did eate of the Garlilce with all meates, and dranke hote wynes in the hote wether, and did eate all the hote frutes that thei could gette, whiche caused their bloudde so to boyle in their belies, that there fell sicke three thousande of the flixe ; and thereof died .xviii. hundred men.—Hall's Chronicle, p. 529, ed. 1809. p. 289. Sweating Sickness.—After this great triumphe [Henry VIII’s jousts in June, 1517] the king appointed his gestes for his pastyme this Sommer ; but sodeinly there came a plague of sickenes, called the Swet- yng sickenes, that turned all his purpose. This malady was so cruell that it killed some within three houres, some within twoo houres, some, mery at diner and dedde at supper. Many died in the kynges Courte, the Lorde Clinton, the Lorde Grey of Wilton, and many knightes, Gentle- men and officiers. For this plague, Mighelmas terrne was adiourned ; and because that this malady continued from July to the middes of December, the kyng kept hymself euer with a small compaignie, and kept no solempne Christmas, willyng to liaue no resort, for feare of in- feccion ; but muche lamented the nomber of his people, for in some one tonne halfe the people died, and in some other toune the thirde parte, the Sweate was so feruent and infeccious.—Hall's Chronicle, p. 592, ed. 1809. See the history of this plague in Chambers's Book of Days, under April 16 ; .also in my Ballads from Manuscripts, Part II, 1871.