An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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BOORDE, Andrew [BORDE]

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  • 1591

The breviary of helthe, for all manner of syckenesses and diseases the whiche may be in man, or woman doth folowe.

London: W. Middleton, 1547.

This, probably the earliest “modern” work on hygiene, throws some light on the condition of that subject in the 16th century.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), Hygiene