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Andrew Boorde

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Also known as Andrew Borde

English physician (1490?-1549)

Person · Open Library

Born
1490
Died
1 April 1549
Works
39

Top works

  • A ryght pleausant and merye historie, of the mylner of Abyngton, with his wife, and his fayre daughter
  • An Almanake and pronostication for the yeare of our lorde, MCCCCC, and XXXVII
  • Here Foloweth a Compe[n]dyous Regyment or a Dyetary of helth, made in Mou[n]tpylior
  • Merie tales of the mad men of Gotam
  • The breviarie of health

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1948-03-22

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
6

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Quotes

  • Beefe is good meate for & Englyssh man so be it the beest be yonge, & that it be nat cowe flesshe. For olde befe & cowe flesshe dothe ingēdre melancoly and leprouse bumours: yf it be moderatly poudered that the groose bloude by salte may be exaustyd, it doth make an Englysshe man strōge.
  • Fysshe may be sode, rosted, bruled & baken euery one after theyr kynde, & vse a fasshyon of the countre, as the coke and the phisicion wyll agre & deuyse. For a good coke is halfe a phisicion. For the chefe phisicke (the councell of a phisecion except) dothe come from the kytchyn, wherfore the phisicion and the coke for sicke men must consult togyther for the preparacion of meate for sicke men.

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