aed instilling therein womans milke also the muscilage of philium of quinces of fenugreek and of tragagant are to be applied let the Muscilage be drawne in the decoction of Mallowes Holy-hocks Violets c. Aetius doth much commend this salue Recip Croci one dramme Mirrhae one dramme Piper gran 15. Spicaenard two scruples Succi feniculi sixteene drams Ammoniac Thimiamat two drams Mellis six ounces When they are all beaten finely powre into them the Iuyce of Fennell then beate them againe vntill they be dry afterwards pur the hony vnto them and keepe this salue in a brasen box for your vse before you vse this salue you must haue a fomentation of Sea water hot wherein dip a sponge and often bath the eyes also a Cucupha or cap prepared as followeth Recip Flor. lauendula Stacados Hysopi Beton Camomil an p. 1. Ros rub p. 2. Calami aromat Ligni Aloess Ciperi an one dramme Fol. lauri Maioramau p. 1. Nucis muscat Rad. ireos Cinamoni an two drams and a halfe Gariphil one dramme and a halfe Stiracis cal one dramme Ambrae griseae gran 6. Musci gran 4. Beat all these to fine powder and therwith make a cap quilted or quilt bagges and apply to the head This electuary is commended to comfort the stomach and to preuent the ingendring of grosse phlegme in the braine Recip Cinamom opt 1 dram 1. scruple Gariophil Ligni Aloes Maceris an halfe a dram Zinzib halfe a scruple Anisipul one scruple Make all into powder and take the equall waight in suger to them all and with wormewood water make into tables the weight of three drammes they are to be vsed in the morning three howers before dinner I haue forborne to prescribe topicall meanes which haue little or no vse in this case because the originall default is not in the eye Of Opthalmia or inflâ—mation of the aduata or coniunctiua Chap. 6. Opthalmia is properly an inflamation of the Adnata or Coniunctiua which is known by rednes payne heat and stretching out when there is rednes without tumor especially by some outward cause as by dust and smoake it is properly called Taraxis when the white of the eye is so swollen vpon the blacke so that a kinde thereof appeareth to hang forth it is then called Chemosis some affirme it to be Chemosis when the Membrain coniunctiua is higher lifted then the Cotnea as if this were in an hole which besides the rednes and heat causeth the eye-lids to be turned so that they cannot couer the eye contrary to this is Phimosis when by some great inflamation the eie-lids doe stick fast each to other and cannot be opened but the hurt which they receiue is but an accident in this disease Epiphora is generally taken for a suddaine streame of humors in any part As Pliny calleth epiphoram vteri or ventris notwithstanding it is properly vsed for the affect in the eies when with great inflamation great quantity of humors flow vnto them all these aforesaid affects do accompany each other the causes are the recourse of bloud choler flegme and melancholy but most commonly bloud choler the generall oure for this disease doth consist in bloud-letting diet purging by the aduise of a learned Phisition because Opthalmicis Diarrheam superuenire bonum est we must not omit to vse cupping glasses vpon the Shoulders with scarification which wil be good for reuulsion also an Astringent frontall to intercept the fluxe if it seeme to be outwards In the beginning a repellent Collyrium to hinder the generation of Phlegmon which must be framed of the muscilage of phillium and of quinces and then a resoluing Collyrium of the muscilage of fenugreek being well washed from its byting quality Abstinence from wine in the beginning is very necessary yet in the declination wine may be permitted euen as a bath of sweet water to contemperate the bloud is at the beginning denied least it should cause the humor to shed and increase the defluxion If the inflamation do continue the muscilages beforsaid shal be drawne in the water of poppy or in a decoction thereof adding thereunto a little camphire or opium and apply to the eie this cataplasme Take of sodden apples iiij ounces and with the white of an egge and womans milk make a cataplasme you must be carefull to renew these medicine least they dry ouer fast and so cause heate not long after vse this Collyrium Recip Gummi arabici tragogant ana one dram cerusa lota halfe a dram opij gran iij. Dissolue all with the white of an egge and womans milke that giueth suck In the declination of this disease this may be vsed Take of the muscilage of fenugreek and quince-seed drawne in rose-rose-water and eiebright-eiebright-water ana one ounce and a halfe in which dissolue sarcocoll in the milke of a woman that giueth suck two drams aloes lot one dram mirh halfe a dram and so make an eye-salue and where there is any great itching or rather where the inflammation commeth of fleagme this is a most singular Collirium Recip tutia prep aloes lota ana halfe a dram sarcocol myrrha ana halfe a scruple sacchar cand one dram vitriol albi halfe a scruple aqua ros aqua faniculi ana two ounces Boyle them altogether a little while in a viol-glasse and then drop thereof into the eie Some commend this Collirium in all inflamations of the eies to take snayle with the shells and to beate them with a little salt and thorow an hypocras bagge to let the water thereof distill which being cleare put thereof into the eies It sometimes falleth out by vnaduised applications which doth coole and beate back or else by some inflamation that the naturall heate is extinguished and choaked and therevpon ensueth a worse inflamation then any of the aforenamed which is a sphacelosous opthalmia which doth depriue the eie of naturall temperature doth make it corrupt and vtterly perish which disease Galen in his introduction calleth grangrena opthalmon the gangren or mortification of the eie when this happneth wee must haue recourse to proper remedies for gangrens chaunging them as the state of the disease and the part shall require Of the suffusion of sight called Cataracta Chap. 7. Hypochyma or Cataracta is an heape of superfluous humors made thick betweene the coate Cornea and the humor crystalloydes or crystallinus directly vpon the apple of the eie swimming aboue the aqueus humor in that place which Celsus doth affirme to be voyd and empty it hindereth the sight or at the least the discerning of such things as are before our eies Fernelius appointeth the place of it betweene the membraim Vuea and the Cristallin humor The difference thereof is borrowed from the quantity or quality from the quantity when it is whole couering all the compasse of the apple of the eie in such sort that the patient cannot see any thing sometimes it doth couer onely halfe the apple of the eie or some
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 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
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
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