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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    was also intended to have been mainly a book on physic, for, besides the four quotations given under (a) below, Boorde says in his Breuyary, “ no man shulde enterpryse to medle with Phisicke but they which be learned and admytted, as it doth appeare more large- ly er in the Introduction of knoiveledge ” (Fol. iii, at foot) ; and again, Fob v, and lxxvi back : “ I had rather not to meddle with Pliysicions 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 Anatomy 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 Breuyary, 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 all his whole lymmes, hath ii.c. xlviii. bones, as it doth more playnely appeare in my Anothomy in the Introduction of knowledge, whiche hath bene longe a piyntynge, for lacke of money and paper ; and\ it is in pryntynge, with pyctures, at Roberts Coplande, prynter” (Breuyary, Pt I. fob lxxxviii.) “For kynges, and kynges sones, and other noble men, hath ben cximious Phisicions, as it appereth more largely in the Introduction of knowlege, a boke of my makynge, beynge a pryntyng with Ro. Coplande (ib. Fob lxx, 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 largelier in the introduction of knowlege.” Fob lxxvi, back. “the kynges actes and lawes . . wylleth and commaundeth, with greate penalytie, that no man shulde enterpryse to medle with Phisicke, but they which be learned and admytted, as it doth appeare more largely er in the Introduction of knoweledge.” Breuyary, Fob 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