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 Breuyary, by F.J. Furnivall.

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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 Breuyary, by F.J. Furnivall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was also intended to have Leen mainly a book on physic, for, besides the four quotations given under (a) below, Boorde says in his Breuyanjy no man shulde enterpryse to medle with Phisicke but they which be learned and admytted, as it doth appeare more large- Iyer in the Introduction of knoiueledge (Fol. iii, at foot); and again, Fol. V, and Ixxvi back : I liad rather not to meddle with Physicions and Chyerurgions then to haue them, yf I shulde dysplease them : for yf they be dys- pleased, there is neither Lorde nor Lady nor no other person can haue any seruyce or pleasure of theym, for this matter loke forther in the Introduction of knowledge, and there shall you see what is good both for the soule and body in god. Amen. The Introduction was also intended to have a book on Ajiatomy in it,—see the next quotation;—but it appeared as a book of Travels, with only a fyrst Boke in or after 1547, after both the Dyetary and Breioyary, and the Astronamye also, had been published. In each of these books the Introduction is mentioned as in the press. Take (a) the Breuyary: Euery man the which hath aU Ms whole lymmes, hath ii.c. xlviii. bones, as it doth more playnely appeare in my Anothomy in the l7itroduction of knowledge, wliiclie hath bene longe a pryntynge, for lacke of money and -paper ; and it is in pryntijnge, with pyctures, at Rolerte Coplande, prynter. (Breuyary, Pt I. fol. Ixxxviii.) _ For kynges, and kyuges sones, and other noble men, hath ben eximious Phisicions, as it appereth more largely iu the Introduction of knowlege, a loke of my makynge, beynge a pryhtyng with Bo. Coplande {ib. Pol. Ixx, back). See p. 93 below. wherfore this science of medecines is a science for whole men, for sick men, and for neuters, which be neyther whole men nor sycke men; wherfore I do aduertyse euery man not to set lytle by this excellent science of medecines, consyderynge the vtilitie of it, as it appereth more largeUer in the introduction of knoivlege. Pol! Ixxvi, back. the kynges actes and lawes . . wylleth and commaundeth, with greate penalytie, that no man shulde enterpryse to medle with Pliisicke, but they which be learned and admytted, as it doth appeare more largelyer in the Introduction of knoweledge. Breuyary Pol. iii, at foot. ' (/3) The Dyetary. Boorde says in his Dedication to the Duke of Norfolk: But yf it shall please your grace to loke on a boke the which I