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
Date:
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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    blockhouses in England, 119, 329. blood not good to eat, 276. boar, the brawn of, 274. boar’s grease, 97; 102. Board Hill in Sussex, 38-9. boarded chamber, 250, 349. boasters, the Scotch are great ones, 137. Boece, Hector, on Scotchmen’s degenerate ways, 259-60, note. boggery (buggery) in Borne, 77. Bohemia and the Bohemians, 166-7. boiled meat, 289 ; is digestible, 277. boiling meat in a skin, 132. Boleyn, Anne, her badge on the dining-room ceiling of Great Fos- ters, 7. Boleyn, Bolyn, 209, Boulogne. bollynge, 293, drinking with a bowl. Bolton, Prior of St Bartholomews, Smithfield, makes a fool of him- self, 325. bongler, 21, bungler. Bonn, red Bhenish. wine grown about, 75. Boord’s Hill, 23. Boorde, Andrew; his Works (list, p. 9), 10—26, 64; his Life (table of facts of, 10), 36—105 ; his Letters, I, 45 ; II, 53 ; III, 55 ; 1Y, 57; V, 58 ; YI, 59; his Will, 73; his opinions and prac- tice, from his Brew/ary, 74—104 ; his Introduction, 111—222,317; his purpose in it, 144-6; his Dyetary, 223 —304,319 ; his motives in writing, 20-1; places visited by him, 63 ; supposed portraits of him, 74; he hates water, but likes ale and wine, 75 ; dislikes whirlwinds, 75 ; trusts in God’s will, which is his, 75-6; fears that devils may enter into him, 76; is shocked at the vices of Borne, 77-8 ; has cachexia, 79 ; has the stone, 80; gets a nit or fly down his throat, 81; his urine, 81; has seen worms come out of men, 81; complains of Englishmen’s neglect of Fasting, 82, Swearing and Heresies, 82-3; Laziness of young people, 83, want of training for Midwives, 84, Cobblers being Doctors, 84-5, the Mutability of men’s minds, 85, the Lust and Avarice of men, 85-6; alludes to the bad food of the poor, 86-7, and early marriages, 87; thinks Lying the worst disease of the Tongue, 88; praises Mirth, 88-9 ; treats of a man’s Spirits, 88-9, of the Heart, 89, of Pain and Ad- versity, 89, Intemperance, Drunk- enness, 90, Man and Woman (which be reasonable Beastes), 91, Marriage, 91, the words of late- speaking Children, 91, the King’s Evil, 91-3, men’s Five Wits, 93, Wounds, 94, Obliviousness, 94, Dreams, and man’s Face, 95; his Medical Treatment of Itch, 96, Tertian Fever, 96, Scurf, 96, curded Milk in Women’s Breasts, 96, pregnant Women’s unnatural Ap- petite, 98, Ulcer in the Nose, 98, Asthma, 99, Palsy, 99, Excoria- tions, 99, Fatness, 100, Priapismus or involuntary Standing of a Man’s Yard, 100, Web in the Eye, 100, rupture of the Gut-Caul, a Sauce- flewme Face, 101-2 ; his opinion on the Soul of Man, 102, on Free- will, 103 ; his Exhortation to his Readers, 103; his Preamble or advice to Sick and Wounded men, 104; his character, 105; was es- teemed by his contemporaries and successors, 105-6 ; sham portraits of him, ]08, 143, 305; he loves venison, 274; doesn’t like pork, 272; his powder for the Pestilence, 290. Boorde, Sir Stephen, 39; Ste- phen, 43. boots rubd with grease, 99. borage, 253, 278, 280, 289.