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A11834	Seabrookes caueat: or His warning piece to all his louing country-men, to beware how they meddle with the eyes In which is contayned the exact and most certaine remedies for all manner of infirmities, which shall happen vnto the eyes. Written for the generall good of this whole monarchie of great Brittaine. By Richard Seabrooke, practicioner in the art of the occulist.	Seabrooke, Richard, b. ca. 1548.	1620 (1620)	STC 22133; ESTC S101949	17,864	62

was knowne there came to mee two women within very fewe houres the one of the other and brought to me two very sweet Babes one nineteene weekes olde the other one and twenty both which had very cleare and faire eyes in all outward semblance but absolutely so blinde that no blindnesse could be greater Then I tolde the Mother of the first childe that questionlesse in mine opinion her childe had taken colde whilst it was in the swadling-cloathes to which the Mother made present answere that I had spoken truth affirming that her Nurse within fiue or sixe dayes after her deliuerance had sate by the fire with the childe bare-headed so long a time that shee tooke offence thereat and making her dresse vp the childe the very next day after she found that her childe was blinde which she was most certaine had seene very perfectly before Then came the other woman with her childe and I said to her as to the first and shee likewise consented with mine opinion and onely affirmed that she was assured her childe did see perfectly a moneth or fiue weekes after it was borne Not long after this there came vnto me and one M. Surfleet a very skilfull Occulist another woman with a childe in the same manner which child was not aboue foureteene weeks olde and both our opinions were as of the former that colde was the only cause of the disease and shee agreed with vs shewing circumstance to leade her thereto and onely affirmed that of her certaine knowledge her childe did see perfectly eight or nine dayes after it was borne Now it was M. Surfleets absolute opinion that in these cases there was no cure in Art but for mine owne part I a little dissent therein and doe allow all vertuous industry to be applied because it cannot bring the disease to a worse end then it is already arriued and may by Gods blessing recall that strength and vigour to the member offended which may restore that which was but a little put by not vtterly forsaken whereas to cease from all manner of application were to embrace a distrust somewhat to neere allied to desperation When therefore this infirmity shall The 〈…〉 happen and proceede of the causes before-said which is easie to be known by argument and the characters before mentioned I would haue you thē carefully to rub and chafe the childes head cōtinually with warme cloathes and to keepe it in a temperate warmenes Then take Eyebright or red Sage if you cannot get Eyebright Wood-Bettony or Garden Bettony Fenel or Fenell-seed and of the Fenel or Fenel-seed a double quantity to either of the other two stamp them straine them then infuse them in strong Ale as to a quart or three pints of Ale one small handfull of Eyebright or Bettony and a double quantity of the Fenell and of this let the Nurse drinke for the space of twenty or foure and twenty dayes together and if it be too strong for her let her alay and temper it with fine Sugar or well clarified honey and doubtlesse by Gods permission if any helpe at all be left in Nature this will restore it otherwise the expence of greater charges will be but the losse of your further labour And herein by the way let me aduise you to remēber to gather these hearbs if it be possible in May or Iune hauing dried them in the shadow preserue them for your vse all the yeare following thē hauing occasion to vse them beat them in a Morter to fine pouder then searse it A 〈…〉 to one draught of new Ale infuse of each of these seueral powders as much as you can well take vpon a sixe pence but of the Fenell a better quantity all being compounded together Now if you haue not the hearbs prouided at this especiall season then know that in case of extremity you may gather thē at any time vse them as was first of all prescribed at least euery morning and euening if not at other houres And herein is an excellent obseruation to be obserued that the vnskilfull practitioners in this Art who taking these desperate cures in hand and not looking to the tendernes delicacie of the eie wil only apply sharp medicines causing a tormēt pain wher no pain is necessary which is not only cōtrary to the charitable rules of Art but vtterly offensiue to all good mindes to behold any creature especially weake Infants so vnmercifully afflicted by these vnskilfull and hard-hearted tormentors and so much the rather in as much as their cruelty is extended vpon the eye being a member most quicke of greatest sence and feeling CHAP. 2. Of Cataracks in the eies their diuers kinds signes cure and preuentions HAuing shewed the imperfections generally happening vnto Infants with their preuentions and cures I will now proceede to the more substantiall diseases of the eyes and such as indeede are incident to all people of all ages of which the most principall and most dangerous is that 〈…〉 which is called the Catarack being a thicke slymie and tough filme bred and ingendred foure elements within the eye eyther naturally by the fluxe of grosse and euill humors or accidentally by the means of some stroke bruse or wipe vpon the eye by which the member being offended puts forth that ill and naughty substance whereby the sight is not onely hindered and impaired but also wholely taken away and depriued of all worthy vse and benefit To speake then generally of the Catharack 〈…〉 you shall vnderstand that there be sixe seuerall kindes thereof as first the hazell coloured Catharack the Catharack of the colour of the skie the grayish Catharack the blacke Catharack the white Catharack and the yellowish greene Catharack and of these the three first are curable and the latter three vtterly incurable Now for as much as there may be a 〈…〉 failing in the true knowledge and discerning of these Catharacks that you may be better enabled to iudge which is curable and which is incurable you shall vnderstand that if the Patient grieued with any of these Catharacks shall be able to discerne or perceiue the glimmering or shining either of the Sunne fire flame or candle-light that then questionlesse all such Catharacks are curable and by Art to be holpen the Practicioner hauing knowledge in the same but if he cannot discerne any such brightnesse and that all things seeme blacke clowdie and without any apprehension of shining then be assured that all such are vtterly incurable and a man may both saue the consumption of his purse and the torment of his body As for those which are curable they 〈…〉 are to be cured by the Catharack needle the demonstration of which is ●●●edlesse here to be exprest because 〈◊〉 Artist or Professour in this Art ought or should be ignorant in the true vse thereof and to set downe in imperfect words a thing of such exquisite perfection whereby ignorance may be

SEABROOKES CAVEAT Or His warning piece to all his louing Country-men to beware how they meddle with the Eyes In which is contayned the exact and most certaine remedies for all manner of infirmities which shall happen vnto the Eyes Written for the generall good of this whole Monarchie of great BRITTAINE By RICHARD SEABROOKE Practicioner in the Art of the Occulist LONDON Printed by Edw. All-de dwelling neere Christes Church 1620. To the Right noble and most vertuous Ladyes being the Nursing-Mothers and Comforters of many poore-afflicted people The Lady SYDNEY of Walsingham and the Lady STRAVNGE wife to the Honourable Knight Sir HAMON STRAVNGE of Hunston RICHARD SEABROOKE wisheth the encrease of Gods good blessings in this life and all graces leading to life eternall Most noble and vertuous Ladies WHen I called to remembrance the most iust condemnation of that euill seruant in the Gospell who buried his one Talent It did quicken my conscience and stirre vp my minde on the contrary ere death should preuent mee according to that measure of knowledge in my profession wherewith God hath endued mee to communicate with my dearest Country-men my skill such as it is by publishing in this small Treatise the principall obseruations of my whole practise True it is I haue now attained to the age of seauenty and two yeares being from my youth by profession an Occulist In which course of life as to my great reioycing in the Lord through his blessings vpon mine endeauours I haue helped very many who haue beene long darkned to their perfect sight so haue I seene by lamentable experience not a few poore Christians of both sexes and all ages by sinister meanes and applications made helplesse and vtterly depriued of the most deare and delightfull light of their eyes The originall of these mischiefes are sometimes to be imputed to the negligence of Mothers and Nurses But for the most part the Practicioners in this kinde are to be taxed and of them also the negligent the vnskilfull and the wilfull most of them more studious to lighten the purses rather then the paines of their grieued patients All these sorts after my plaine manner I haue briefely touched in certaine caueats then I shew the causes of Blindnesse the seuerall hurtfull humours incident to the eyes their qualities and how to iudge which be curable and which incurable and lastly I haue annexed the most approoued medicines and remedies which I haue found by long experience to be most profitable I fore-see most vertuous Madames that these aduertisements comming from my selfe a plaine olde man shall not escape the detractions and scoffes of proud and malicious censurers but hauing for the warrant of my doings the testimonie of a good conscience that I haue sincerely charitably and vpon knowne grounds proceeded herein I cast behinde mee all the vniust aspertions they possibly can throw vpon my name I am a poore man my selfe and my poore mite I freely cast into the poore mans treasury wishing all them that are so humbly minded not to despise what they not vnderstand But first to make triall then to trust and so to take in good part that which is tendred vnto their good And very sure I am that I cannot want good attestation of my cures performed by these meanes and thankfull acknowledgement also from such as vnder God haue found helpe by mine applications Now the reasons enducing me most honoured Ladies to present this my simple labour to your excellent selues are the famous reports of your noble vertues whose charity and piety like two goodly collumbs support and hold vp a world of poore distressed people which otherwise would perish and fall to dust in the ruines of their afflictions and affirmities as also that I know the excellencie of your clement natures will vouchsafe to accept a small present being offered of great good will and affection In which since I can finde no distrust because your goodnesse is my warrant I humbly craue pardon for my boldnesse and vowe euer till this little sand of my life be consumed to remaine The euer obliged seruant and true admirer of your vertues RICH. SEABROOKE To the courteous and indifferent Reader especially to all such who 〈◊〉 troubled with any disease incident to the eyes I Haue not here courteous and indifferent Reader entertained thee with fine phrases and artificiall method things curious and becomming the curious I leaue that to those which are more ambitious of priuate fame then studious for the common good But I haue truly and plainely shewed thee how to beware of and preuent certaine grieuous inconueniences where the disease is curable I haue set downe approued remedies for it where it is incurable I aduise thee to comfort thy selfe in God and saue thy money Reade and practise and as thou findest any profit take in good part my paines but giue the whole praise vnto God to whose holy protection I commit thee and my selfe and all the faithfull in Christ Iesus Farewell R. S. CHAP. 1. Of Blindnesse both curable and incurable in Infants the cause preuention and cure FIrst because experience is the Mother and chiefe Nurse of all wisedome and that by it we are led and conducted to the end of perfection I will in this my small Treatise take her by the hand and as shee shall with the assistance of truth guide me so both begin and finish this profitable labour which I hope shall be both to the glory of my God and the generall profit of my dearest beloued Country Know then all to whom this almost insupportable infirmitie of Blindnesse is burdenous and heauie that it hath two great and eminent enemies Ignorance and Negligence and by them it is often made desperate and curelesse which otherwise would either not be at all or if hapning yet rest within the easiest compasse of speedy cure and preuention To you Mothers then and Nurses 〈…〉 for you are the first caretakers of children I direct my first admonitions because from you when you prooue the least remisse and carelesse doe proceede the greatest errors let mee earnestly perswade you by all meanes to beware of suffering your children to take colde in any part especially on their heads by sitting with them long bare-headed whether by the fire in the Sunne or in the open ayre especially whilst they are in their swadling cloathes or in the tender time of their Infancie a fault much too common amongst Nurses and a negligence so offensiue that the defect of blindnesse comming therby the disease is hardly or neuer to be cured For the mould of the head not being then closed the least offence of colde striking the braine bringeth sodaine and present blindnesse which defect found ere the cause be discerned Ignorance presently giues out that such children were borne blinde But I affirme it is nothing so and for proofe thereof call to witnesse mine experience which I will shew in a few instances First being in a place where my practise