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.

  • Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549.
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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    PEAS, BEANS, AND FRUITS. Old nuts breed palsy in the tongue. Peas. Beans are strong food. Mellow Pears make men fat. Roast Wardens comfort the stomach. Apples should be eaten with comfits or fennel- seed. Pomegranates. Baked Quinces soften the belly. nutrytyue, & doth increase fatnes; yf they be olde, they shuld he eaten with great raysens. But new nuttes he farre better than olde nuttes, for olde nuttes he color- ycke, and they be euyl for the hed, and euyll for olde men. And they dothe ingender the palsey to the tounge, (yet they he good agaynst venym,) And, immo- deratly taken or eaten, doth ingender corrupcyons, as byles, hlaynes, & suche putryfaction. IF Of Peason and Beanes. IT Peason the whiche he yonge, he nutrytyue; Howbeit, they doth replete a man with vento1 syte. Beanes he not so moche to he praysed as peason, for they he full of ventosyte, althoughe the skynnes or huskes he ablatyd or cast away; yet they he a stronge meate, and doth prouoke veneryous actes. IT Of Peares, and Appulles. If Peares the whiche he melow and doulce, & not stony, doth increase fatnes, ingenderyng waterysshe hlod. And they he full of ventosyte. But wardens rosted, stued, or haken, he nutrytyue, and doth corn- forte the stomacke, specyally yf they be eaten with comfettes. Apples he good, after a frost liaue taken them, or 2 whan they he olde, specyally red apples, and2 they the whiche he of good odor, & melow ; they shuld he eaten with suger or comfettes, or with fenell-sede, or anys-sede, hycause of theyr ventosyte; they doth comforte than the stomacke, and doth make good dy- gestyon, specyally yf they he rostyd or haken. IF Of Pomegranates, & Quynces. IF Pomegranates he nutrytyue, and good for the stomacke. Quinces haken, the core3 pulled out, doth mollyfy the hely, and doth helpe dygestyon, and dothe preserue a man from dronkenshyppe. sign. K .iii. back. 2-2 P omits this. gore P.