Recip Fermenti acris one ounce Cantharidum et Seminis Synapi one dramme Mixe them for a Vesicatorium There Fernelius willeth to apply a cautier and doth giue a reason that from thence a branch from the iugular vaine springeth and doth runne through to the Optick Nerues As often as the veines of the forehead do swell they shew the fluxe to bee externall and the tumor to descend from the pericoranium from whence springeth the coniunctiua which fluxe is profitably stayed with some adstringent frontall such as in this maner may be prepared Recip Emplast contra rupturam desiccatini rubri an one ounce Malax them with oyle of myrtles or roses and spred it vppon lynnen and make a frontall which apply all ouer the forehead or Recep Farinae volatilis an ounce a halfe boli armeni et Sanguinis Draconis ana two drammes Worke them well together with the white of egges and oyle of roses and make a frontall as before Also topicall meanes applyed to the head are not to bee neglected For this is a generall precept as often as diseases come by defluxion we must not onely respect that part that is offended but also that part that sends it Beside a thinne humor is to bee ingrost and made thicker and the laxe wayes are to be made straiter this last prescribed frontall is most excellent but first cephalicall thinges and such as respect the head must be remembred The vse of Eyebright wine doth confirme and strengthen weak and ill affected eyes or the powder of Eyebright as Recep Euprasiae Feniculi dulc ana one ounce Cum duplo Saccharo take of it after meales or Recep Coriandri praeparat one ounce Euphrasiae et feniculi an halfe an ounce Cinamomi one dramme Macis two scruples With the double weight of Sugar make a powder to be taken out of a spoone after meales if you please you may boyle the iuyces of Fenel and Eyebright with hony and make a confection of which take morning and euening the quantity of a Walnut For generall thinges outwardly to bee applyed I will prescribe two Colliriums the one in hot diseases to be prescribed in the beginning of the fluxe that it may bee repelled the other in the state and declination of hot diseases and in cold also they may at all times be vsed the first Colirium shall be after this manner Recip Muccaginis Semi Psylâ—â— et Cydoniorum extractae in aqua Rosarum vel plantaginis an halfe an ounce with two ounces Of the same water make a liquid Colirium it is commonly made with the white of a new laid egge being wrought together with Rosewater or Plantain water a Colirium to resolue is made in this manner Recip Muccaginis faenugreci extracted with Eyebright water or Fenel water an one ounce make a Colirium or with two ounces of the same water make a Collirium liquidum a litle of the Muscilage is to bee prescribed because it doth quickly grow sower And now I aske whether your Colliriae are to bee distilled into the eyes as hot as may be suffered as it liketh Scribonius or cold as it pleaseth Mesue or luke warme according to Galen But in my opinion they are to be instilled luke warme vnlesse the affect do require some other thing for in eyes that be exceedingly inflamed and burning wee drop it in cold but in very cold affects wee droppe it in very warme otherwise meanely warme doth alwaies serue the turne Now to proceed to cure those diseases whereof wee haue already spoken euery distemperature is cured by his contrary as eyes that bee inflamed and ouer-hot shall be cooled with the dayly washing of them with cold thinges or with the waters of Roses and Plantaine but if the distemperature be cold we warme the eyes with putting in the waters of Eyebright Fennell Rue Celendine washing them often therewith if the eyes bee over-ouer-moist wee dry them if wee macerat tutia in those waters as for example Recip Tutiae one dram Infuse it in eyebright water two ounces make a Collirium if the eyes be ouer dry we humect them by instilling womans milk or with a fotus of mallowes holy hocks and violets But if some matter be ioyned with the distemperature let it bee resolued with a Collirium of the Muscilage of Fenugreeke extracted in the aforesaid waters or wash the eyes with the decoction of Fenugreeke with a sponge or boyle a bag being filled with Fenugreeke in water and apply the bagge to the eye warme hitherto we haue spoken of the Similer disease now we will speake of organicall and first of diseases of magnitude If the eyes shall be greater or lesser then they should be from their first conformation all remedies are vnprofitable if they happen so by accident as by some fluxe from the braine all the body is often to be purged the moist eyes are to be dryed we must looke to the head that is ouer-moist with Cephalicall thinges Also Cautiers must be applyed to dry vp the offending humor we must apply for Topicall linnen dipt in the water of Rue Celendine or Eyebright and the infusion of Tutia or the bagge filled with Fenugreeke or of the same Hydroticall Decoction of the infusion of Tutia make a Collirium Encanthis groweth whiles the bloud doth more abundantly flow to the caruncle for nourishment which being turned into the same substance groweth greater then it ought to doe sometimes it is so great that it hindreth the eye lids to be shut it is burnt with gold or els with a burning iron or els cut off or when it doth surmount it is bound with a thread after it is softly bound vp and after being destitute of nourishment the excrescence doth fall away of its owne accord Our ancient Phisitions called this kind of remedy Anabronchismon if the sick bee of a delicate constitution and shall refuse the Chirurgery let the excrescence be eaten away with burnt Alum or with oyle of vitriol but it must be diligently corrected with rosewater or milke for the exquisite sense of the part In the meane time while these things are a doing wee must defend the eye with some defensure to auoid the offence of a fluxe Rhyas doth oftentimes succeed Epiphora if the Caruncle be plainely eaten it admitteth no cure but if some part bee onely eaten the flesh may bee regenerated by applying incarnatiues as tutia aloes thus or infuse the same in succo granatorum and being strained instill it by drop meale into the greater corner of the eye But perhaps you will say wil you mixe adstringents with your incarnatiues such as is the iuyce of Pomegranets which is altogether forbidden by Galen least the dry excrement should be retained in the part But hitherto of diseases of magnitude now follow diseases of number Of the Webbe of the Eye Chap. 3. Pterigium gooweth by the defluxion of thick and grosse humors beeing soft and white in the beginning Dioscorides doth commend a Collirium of Snailes
the Eyes are of a delicate and soft nature so ar they by the most light occasion offended as by smoak by dust and the Sunne beames so the north winde and vapours rising from minerals doe hurt the eyes But this peculiar property the eyes haue that they congeale not because they are of a fiery property and doe consist of an airy fatnes The eyes are subiect to euery kinde of disease Simeler Organical and commune as the similer parts doe labour with euery distemprature with an hot distemprature as often as they are offended with smoake or dust which offence proceeding from an outward cause is properly called Taraxis rednes of the eyes is more like vnto Phlogosis then Phlegmon because they arred without tumor A cold distemprature doth dull the sight A moyst doth dilate the pupill A dry distemprature doth either shrinke vp the whole eye or the pupill thereof is dryed or extenuated as it hapneth in extreame old age or by the immoderate vse of venerie From thence Pthisis and an Atrophia hapneth of the eye I call that Pthisis which is an extenuation of the pupill or apple and becometh more angustior and streyter and more obscure but that is an Atrophia when the whole eye is consumed for want of nourishment And as the Instrument doth suffer diseases of number of magnitude of situation and conformation I say conformation in the figure Meatus and Asperitie for it is a disease in magnitude as often as the eyes are more great and more standing forth then they should for the lesser eyes are best because the visible vertue being coacted and drawne togither is greater then when it is dispersed and is least subiect to outward iniuries from whence it doth happen that those which by nature haue small balls or apples of the eye haue their sight most sharpe I meane not those which haue it so by accident as if they be extenuated by immoderate venerie for then thinges seeme to be greater then they are to this may be referred Enchanthis and Rhinas for they are the contrary of the same kinde Encanthis is an excrescence of the same flesh which is in the greater Cantho but Rhinas is when the same caruncle being eroded and eaten doth appeare as it were hanging forth To diseases of number doe appertaine Suffusio which is commonly called the Cataracte which is an humor concreate betweene the Cornea and the Vuea in like manner the web called Pterigium and Onix or Vngula and Hipopion The web is a neruose membrane which according to diuers men doth proceede from the great corner vnto the apple and sometimes at length doth couer the whole eye Onyx or Vnguis is a Cicatrix from some vlcer which is referred to the likenes of a nayle Hypopion is a certaine Pus collected vnder the Cornea which doth succeed a suppurated inflammation Chemosi Hyposphagmati bloudy and suggillat eyes such as are when some veine is opened broken or gnawne the bloud waxeth blewe and liued To diseases of Site or situation doth appertaine Ecpiesmos which is when the whole ball hangeth forth which hapneth by the Muscles relaxed which muscles do obuolue the opticke nerue which disease may be called Prolapsus oculi although Paulus doth cal it Proptosin when the Cornea being eroded or eaten the Vuea doth hang forth of which Proptoseos there are diuers names for first when the vuea doth hang forth because it appeareth like vnto the head of a Flie it is called Myocephalos but when it doth increase more and doth represent Acinum vuae it is called Staphiloma when it doth more increase and the eye is starke blinde and hath the likenes of the head of a nayle it is called Clauus but either affect is Morbus in situ but the first is of the whole eye the latter of one onely part that is of the vuea Diseases of conformation are when the naturall figure of the eye is peruerted as in Strabismo or conuulsion Midriasei or dilatation of the ball also diseases in Via as a sodaine obstruction of the Opticke nerue which is called Hamarosis The Sicke seeth nothing at all when notwithstanding no cause appeareth in the eye the tunicles of the eyes ought to be light terse and fayre are sometimes exasperated with an inward and outward cause as with smoake and dust The eyes do suffer most often common diseases as vlcers and tumors against nature first phlegmon which is called Opthalmia that is knowne by tumor inflamation rednes and paine The vlcers do manifest themselues by itch by paine and Saines but not also the Adnâ—ta but also the Cornea is sometimes vlcered and whether it bee vlcered wee may easily know by this signe There doth appeare a white spot in the black of the eye with the signes aforesaid and when the Coniunctiua is vlcered there doth appeare as it were a red spot in the white of the eye But first I will set downe the manner of curing of those diseases and then I will speak of the Symptoms The precept of Plato in Charmide is familiar with Galen Euen as it is in vaine to cure the diseases of the head without consideration bee first had of the whole so rashly to prescribe remedies to the eyes except we first consider of the head where is the originall both of the eyes and the fountaine of all diseases which come by defluxion Therefore first of all the body is to bee purged with pillulis lucis maioribus in a cold cause and in an hot cause with pil lucis minoribus or with Sena and Agarick which shall bee boyled in a decoction or with the distilled waters of Fenel and Eyebright with which vehicles the purgatiue vertue is carried to the eyes and consider that the Agarik doth especially profit the braine and the Senna the eyes The opening of a veine in hot diseases is profitable but not in cold yet the common people do hold an opinion that bloud-letting doth weaken the sight for it draweth the animall spirits and so doth weaken their force because the vapour of bloud or the naturall spirit is the matter of the vitall spirit as heere of the animall for the eyes ought to be fiery and full of Animall Spirit Masticatoria without doubt doe profit to the deriuation of the humor from the braine but your errhina are hurtfull especially the stronger sort because they draw to the part affected for there is great affininity of the nostrils with the eyes there is also a manifest foramen from the eye into the nostrill whose opercle or couer is a litle lacrimall flesh But some man may say Aerius doth prescribe errhina I answer those are the lighter sort neither is the disease as yet confirmed but now beeing confirmed and the humor fixed and not flowing Cupping glasses adplied to the shoulders doth pluck back the fluxe from the eyes euen as a Seton and Cautier in Inio Iohn de Vigo doth apply behind the eares bloudsuckers and Vesicatorium as Vesicatorium
Lapis Armenius spectacles of Christalline or clear and pure glasse greene sky colours to dip the eies in cold water to which purpose many haue cups made in the forme of an eie called eie-cups to wash the eies with the waters or decoctions of eiebright roses and veruaine Some other things are put into the eies to clear the sight to remoue impediments which do often grow there to which purpose as approued very good without hurt the iuices waters of eie-bright of fenell of veruaine of marigolds of pearlwort are greatly commended And Montagnana doeth mention a certaine kinde of preparation of the iuice of fenell singular good to preserue the sight from dimnesse to take the iuce of fenell in the month of Aprill and to put it in a vessell of glasse with a long and narrow necke and let it stand fifteene daies in the sunne that it may be well dryed then remoue the glasse softly that you doe not trouble the residue or grounds and so powre it into another vessell and to euery halfe pound of the iuice put an ounce of chosen lignum aloes beaten into fine powder and let it stand other fifteene daies in the Sun Then straine it twise through a thick cloth and keepe the clearest in a vessell of glasse to your vse you may drop a little hereof into your eies to cleare the sight And some do distill this wood in a stillatory of glasse and put the water thereof into the eies and hold this for a great secret as miraculous to preserue the sight And the same Montagnana doeth compound another medicine more abstersiue to remedie the dimnes of the sight dissoluing in an ounce of the water of Rosemarie flowers two scruples of Sal gemma very finely powdered and filtered and counselleth to drop the same often into the eies affirming by his experience that it doeth so mightily cleare the sight that suffusions are thereby wonderfully remoued and especially moistures of the eies I am heere also in this place for the clensing and strenghtning of the eies especially to commend vnto you the frequent vse of old and cleere white wine in which the Calaminar stone hath beene oftentimes extinguished and likewise the pure liquor of good sugar-candy dissolued in the white of an egge being hard rosted and the yolke taken out Also our authors do commend the washing of the eies with the vrin of a childe and sometimes to drop the same into the eies And for this purpose also they do commend lie made of the ashes of fenell stalkes Wee doe read in all our writers great commendations of a liquor of the liuer of a goate prepared in manner following Take the liuer of a male goat not diseased nor newly killed and after it is well washed pricke it in many places and fill the same with graines of pepper and infarce the liuer with the leaues of fennell and of eiebright then rost it with a soft fire cleare not smoakie vntill it bee reasonably rosted and in the time of roasting receiue the liquor which doth distill in a conuenient vessell and apply the same to your vse Auicenna in his third fen third booke and fourth treatise cap. de debilitate visus aboue all other things doth commend the medicine called collyrium de fellibus for that it cleanseth the pores of the eies cleareth and conserueth the spirits mundifieth the moystures or waters of the sight as you may reade in Auicenna in the foresaide place Inward Medicines MEdicins to be taken inwardly are in number many but I thinke best at this time to mention a few which are easie to be had and as of great efficacy most commended of such the powder following is most simple yet by experience aproued of such force that many after their sight hath bin decaied haue by the vse of it receiued againe the same perfectly the powder is thus made Take of the powder of eiebright foure ounces of mace one ounce mingle them togither and take thereof the weight of three pence before meate Montanus in his 92. counsel giueth great praise to a sirup against the decay of the sight through the weakenes and dimnes of the same which he compoundeth thus Take of the iuices of fennel of each two ounces of veruaine of each two ounces of roses of each two ounces The leaues of the herbe eiebright of each M. S. of endiue of each M. S. of celendine of each M. S. boyle the herbes in two pints of water vntill the halfe be spent then straine it hard and mingle the iuices with the decoction and with sugar according to art make a sirup which is to be kept in a glasse vessell You may take two ounces of this sirup in the morning fasting In windy bodies hee maketh the sirup thus Take of fenell seeds of each iij. ounces of anise seeds of each iij. ounces of the herbs of eiebright of each M. iij. of veruaine of each M. iij. of rose-leaues of each M. iij. of celendine M. j. of rhue M. j. S. boile these in water vntill halfe be consumed straine it harde and with sugar siruppize the decoction both these sirups are excellent good to defend the sight from dimnesse Mesue in his booke called Grabadin writing of the diseases of the eies aboue all other medicines extolleth an electuary vnder the name of Humaine as hauing noble vettues to perserue the eies and to continue the visible spirites in their clearenesse which he compoundeth thus Take the herbe called Adhil that is eiebright ounces ij fenill seeds Drams v. mace of each Dra. j. cubebs of each Dra. j. cinamom of each Dra. j. long-peper of each Dra. j. cloues of each Dra. j. beate all into powder searse it then take of good hony clarified lib. j. of the iuice of fenill boyled and clarified one ounce of the iuce of Rhue of Celendine both boiled and clarified of each halfe an ounce boyle all to the height of an electuary and then put to it the powders according to art and so reserue it in glasse vessels You may take hereof the quantity of Dra. iij in wine as Mesue writeth If wine seeme too hot you may allay it with fenill water or with Eiebright water it must be taken in the morning fasting and you ought to forbeare the taking of other things by the space of three houres and so at night but then you must make a light supper and sup the more timely Where in this little Treatise mention is made of distilled waters I wish the same to be artificially done in stilli tories of glasse that the qualities of the herbes may remaine in the distilled waters And therefore I doe not allow of the common maner of distilling in stillirories of lead by the which the watry parts onely are drawne FINIS A Treatise of the principall diseases of the eyes gathered out of Fernelius and Iohn Riolamus Doctors of Phisicke AS
part of it either aboue or beneath or in the midst in such manner that that onely part of the thing before our face can be discerned which is placed against the part of the eie which is affected Some there are that doe contend and affirme that this suffusion is no disease but an outward moysture collected before the pupil or apple of the eie which humidity seeing that it is a substance doth not seeme to be a disease because it is a quallity and is placed vnder the predicament of quality but to leaue an ouer curious questioning whether it be a disease or quality we will proceed to the cure Now to proceed in order to the cure first you must purge the braine with pils that are proper for that purpose and giue them to the patient the day before you begin your cure then the next day following about nine of the clock in the morning the patient yet fasting prouided that the cataract be ripe and confirmed cause him to sit ouert vhart a stoole in ryding fashione and sit on the same stoole face to face and make the parient to hold his sound eie closed with his hand and in that sort charge him to sit steadfastly without starting or stirring in any-wife let another also stand behind him and hold his head very stedfast this done first with your owne hand lift vp the ouer-eie-lid and then with thy other hand put in thy needle made for that purpose in at the greater corner of the eie and finely trilling the tunicle called saluatella or saluatrix writh alwaies thy finger to and fro till thou touch with the point of thy needle the corrupt water which is indeed the cataracte and then begin by little and little to remoue that water from before the sight to the corner of the eie and keepe it there with the point of your needle the space of three minuts of an houre and then remoue your needle easily from it and if it happen to rise againe bring it back the second time but this you must beware of that when the needle hath touched the catarract you doe not writh it about with your fingers to and fro till it be set in his place before named but to draw it thither gently and when you haue it there trill the needle about vntill it hath gathered the water about it and then pull it out when this is done cause him to shut close his eie and apply therevpon a plaster of flaxe and the white of an egge and cause him to lie in his bed nine daies together remouing the plaster three times in the day and so many times in the night without any other stirring of it and prouide also that hee lie in a very darke place and let him be kept in a thin diet as reare egges and white bread and if hee be young and of strength let him drinke Barly water but otherwise let him drinke small ale and wine delayd with water for truely too much nourishment would offend in procreating too much bloud in the eie which is very hurtfull in the beginning of the cure When the ninth day is past let him arise and wash his eies with faire cold water and hee shall inioy his sight by the helpe of GOD. euen as well as hee had it before Of the Aegilops or the lacrimall Fistula Chap. 8. Betweene the nostrills and the greater corner of the eye riseth an Aposthume which the Grecians do call Aegilops that is oculus Caprinus a Goats eye because that Goats are subiect to this disease wee call this disease Fistula lacrimalis This Aegilops may happen through euery humor yet neuerthelesse it happeneth most often through fleagme seldome through bloud but seldome or neuer from choller or melancholly the flegmatick humor continually flowing by the flesh of the lacrimall corner to the nostrils and sometimes vnder the same flesh being there detained doth putrifie and breaketh out into a fistulous vlcer from whence certaine doe imagine that Aegilops happeneth alwaies from fleagme and by bloud also this disease is wont to bee excited but not so often as with fleagme but it is sufficient to know that this lacrimall fistula happeneth from some virulent humor and that which is corrosiue As concerning the cure at the first beginning we must presently vse repellents such as is rose-water and the white of an egge well beaten together or with oyle of roses mixt with vineger which oyle must be boyled to the consumption of the vineger then adde thereto a little milke wee must be carefull that none of the oyle stick to the eye for to that part it is very biting or apply thereto Halica boyled in vineger and beaten well together for it doth not onlye help them in the beginning but after they alter into Apostume and doth breake them and pierce euen to the very bone or a medicine framed of these glaucium saffron and the iuyce of Pellitory of the wall but the medicine must be oftentimes changed I saith Trallianus haue hindered these Aegilops as yet not growne to matter by the vse of these things that they neuer came to suppuration or the place is to be anointed with a Collyrium which doth vehemently stupifie and least the matter should happen to be cold we take bdellium dissolued in vineger with oyle of Roses which may be mixed therewith or Ammoniacum and the iuyce of fennel or snailes with their shells sometime with Aloes and sometimes with Myrhe mixed and so apply it In the meane time wee must ordaine a diet of such meate as is of good nourishment and containing but few superfluities as are Chickins Hens Partriges Fesants Doues Larkes new laid Egges Raisons and sweet Almonds let his drinke be Hydromell or wine delayed with water for diuersion of the humor flowing the humerall veine of that side in the arme must be cut or some other diuersions with cupping glasses or frictions and ligatures must bee vsed also the humors abounding digested and prepared must be auoided with hiera piera or hiera logodion or with pilles of cochia or by clysters and sharpe Suppositories neither will one purgation suffice but diuers and often reiterated but if the disease doe continue wee must vse topicall meanes and such as are discussiue Paulus commendeth ruta Satiua cum lixiuio framed of Ashes and lime indeed in the beginning it is somwhat biting but afterward it is most gentle and doth penetrate vnto the very bone Alexander Trallianus doth shew an approued medicine which is the inward membrain of the reede that which we find about the knots and mixe it with honny and apply the same changing the same foure times a day when the place is well clensed and purged dip a spunge in mulsa and foment it this aforesad menbrain of the reede may bee applyed by it selfe or else Recip Staphisagriae two drammes Ammoniaci in aceto dissoluti halfe an ounce mixe them and apply it An other Recip Mellis puri Aloes hepat
an two ounces Myrrhae one ounce Croci halfe a dramme Aquae lib. 2. Boyle all at a gentle fier to the consumption of the one halfe and in that decoction being hot infuse a new peece of sponge and with the same clense the sore and then bind a soft peece of sponge wet in the same liquor and it will worke a wonderfull effect as hath often beene proued An other medicine Recip Succi foliorum lilii vel radicum eius foure ounces Viridis aeris vsti one ounce Mellis puri three ounces Olei nucum Cerae q. s Boyle all to the consumption of the iuyces and make an oyntment of which put it in cum licinio or tent as is fit I will describe an other medicine which doth not onely cure the Lacrimall fistula but all other Fistulas Recip Centauri minoris Aristolochiae rot an aur 1. Mirrhae aur 3. Aluminis Gallae an aur halfe Ireos Sarcocollae Seif memitae an aur 1. Viridis aeris one scruple Mixe all with hony and make an oyntment When the bone is foule we vse an actuall cautier and touch the bone through a Canula which cautier must be either of brasse or siluer and being artificially applied will cure the fistula I sayth the Author haue wrought with the Cautier as aforesaid and haue had very good successe Generall rules for the conseruation of the sight Chap. 9. Whosoeuer doth desire to preserue his sight let him take heed of the inequality of the ayre of fire smoake winde immoderate Coiture much labour superfluous weeping drunkennesse ouermuch sleepe especially in the day-time vpon meat immoderate watchings Let them also auoid meates that doe ingender vapours such as Cabbidge Coleworts Onions Garlick all sharpe thinges and Salt sallets beanes and peason all fat thinges whether they be of flesh or of oyle all thinges of hard digestion must be auoided and all thinges that are vaporous Medicines that doe conserue the sight some are abstersiue and clensing and meanely temperate such as are Fennell and a Collirium of the same Succus memitae and Eiebright of its owne property some there are which doe preserue the eyes by altering or warming by cooling moistning or drying some preserue the sight by lenifying the asperitie and other thinges by other meanes of which we will speake afterwards A Collirium Democriti which doth cleare the sight and preserue the same Recip Succi faeniculi depurati lib. halfe Boyle it a little in a vessell of brasse and let it remaine a while til it haue a residence then add two ounces of pure hony and boyle it againe at a gentle fire with ten or twelue leaues of good gold then straine it and put it into a violl of glasse stopping the mouth thereof very close then set it in the sunne powring it from vessell into vessell taking alwaies away the residence and put thereof into the eyes some doe add thereunto the gall of a Cocke the quantitie of two drammes Another that doth conserue the sight Recip Tutiae Alexandrinae praep Antimoniipraep Lapidis haematitis Ossis sepiae marinae abluti aeris vsti Cortieum aeris Aloes folii croci an partem Vnam Piperis Macropiperis Salis ammoniaci an partem halfe Margaritarum Myrobal cheb Spumae maris Clymiae aureae Saccari Musci caphurae an partem quartam 1. Let it be very finely beaten and ground vpon a marble diuers times vntill it be a very fine powder of which put into the eyes The eyes of a Crowe hung about the neck strengthneth a weake sight and doth preserue the eyes the roote of swines grasse or knot grasse dryed in the decrease of the Moone and hung about the neck doth also conserue and strengthen the sight neither doth it suffer them to be inflamed Also take the leaues of Rue of Roses Fennell Eiebright and Celendine of each equall parts distill them all togither and put a little of this water into the eyes for it is the best Collirium for clearing of the eyes for the conseruation and comfort of the sight and it must be made in the spring-time Also longe Comings and frictions of the head doth diuert and turne away the vapours that doe offend the sight also it is good to behould greene thinges and the skies Cleare spectacles are also very good Moreouer fill the hollownes of the hand in the morning with cold water and with the same wash open the eies Also a nutmeg beaten with hony and eaten in the morning doth preserue the sight also your Mirobalans Condite doe the same An excellent oyntment for the eyes Take Auxungia recens two ounces steepe it in rose water for six howers space afterwards wash it againe in white wine twelue seuerall times for the space of six howers more then add thereto of Tutia praep and in fine powder one ounce Lapis hematites well washed one scruple Aloes lota et pul gr 12. margaritarum gr 3. mix it and with a little water of fennell make an oyntment whereof put a small quantity into the corner of the eyes FINIS Diet. Aire Windes Dust Smoke Meates Fish Preparatâ—â—â— of meates Intrals Braines Milke Egges Sauces Spices 〈…〉 〈◊〉 herbs 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Rape 〈◊〉 Turnep â—â—uites â—eares â—pples â—igges â—aisons Nuts Dates Confects Drinkes Beere Wine â—edicinall â—â—inkes â—rinke â—ade with â—â—â—bright â—rnoldus 〈◊〉 villa noâ—â— â—he praise 〈◊〉 eiebright 〈◊〉 the sight 〈…〉 Eiebright taken in an egge Eiebright may be vsed in beere in ale or meade How Eieâ—â—ight wine may be vsed The vse of Eiebright ale and of Eiebright beere Ale made with grout How to make Eiebright Ale and beere Eiebright meade The quantity of eiebright to the drinke Fenell seeds Spices may be added The effect confirmed by examples Drinkes more compounded for the sight The most compound not alwaies best Drinke often and small draughts Not best to begin the meale with drinke When to mingle water with wine Breade Past with fenil seeds Euacuation Fulnesse hurtfull Vse of Venus Sleepe and watching The Moone shine hurtfull to the sight Exercises Writing after meate Frictions Combing the head Affections of the minde Outward Medicines The smell of marieruÌ„ Things comfortable to the sight Eie cups Things put into the eies A preparation of the iuice of fenell Lignum aloes good for the sight Sal gemma doth cleare the sight The vrine of a childe A lie of fenel stalkes A preparation of the liuer of a Goate for the sight Collyrium de fellibus A powder for the sigâ—â— A sirup for the sight An excellenâ— electuary 〈◊〉 preserue the fight Distilled â—aters