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Edited by H. Edmund Poole. Price, 7s 6d. Pp. 63, with 15 illustrations. Edgar Backus, 44 Cank St, Leicester, England, 1936.

William B. Bean, MD, Reviewer

Arch Intern Med. 1966;117(4):586-587.

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Edited by DANIEL B. STONE, MB *

Not very long after I came across a comment about Andrew Boorde's The Dyetary of Helth, I saw in a secondhand catalogue the notice of an abridged version. It had been edited by H. Edmund Poole and illustrated by A. E. Christopherson, printed by Falconer Scott at the Garswood Press, and published by Edgar Backus, 44 Cank St, Leicester, 1936. The editor took the liberty of abridging it, using only those sections which bore on the daily life and household organization of Tudor, England. In order to help the poor modern reader, he leveled out the spellings to make them consistent, but left the sentences unmolested and the punctuation in its original bewildering form.

Andrew Boorde was born in Sussex in England two years before Columbus discovered America. He was brought up in Oxford as a member of that straitly, strict order of monks, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Communications to this Department may be sent directly to Daniel B. Stone, MB, Department of Medicine, University Hospitals, State University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52241, or to the Chief Editor for transmittal to him.

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