A worthy treatise of the eyes contayning the knowledge and cure of one hundred and thirtene diseases, incident vnto them: first gathered & written in French, by Iacques Guillemeau, chyrurgion to the French King, and now translated into English, togeather with a profitable treatise of the scorbie; & another of the cancer by A.H. Also next to the treatise of the eies is adoiyned a work touching the preseruation of the sight, set forth by VV. Bailey. D. of Phisick
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A worthy treatise of the eyes contayning the knowledge and cure of one hundred and thirtene diseases, incident vnto them: first gathered & written in French, by Iacques Guillemeau, chyrurgion to the French King, and now translated into English, togeather with a profitable treatise of the scorbie; & another of the cancer by A.H. Also next to the treatise of the eies is adoiyned a work touching the preseruation of the sight, set forth by VV. Bailey. D. of Phisick
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Guillemeau, Jacques, 1550?-1613.
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[London] :: Printed by Robert Waldegraue for Thomas Man and VVilliam Brome,
[1587?]
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Scurvy -- Early works to 1800.
Cancer -- Early works to 1800.
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"A worthy treatise of the eyes contayning the knowledge and cure of one hundred and thirtene diseases, incident vnto them: first gathered & written in French, by Iacques Guillemeau, chyrurgion to the French King, and now translated into English, togeather with a profitable treatise of the scorbie; & another of the cancer by A.H. Also next to the treatise of the eies is adoiyned a work touching the preseruation of the sight, set forth by VV. Bailey. D. of Phisick." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02366.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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CHAP. 4. Of the eie vvhich is troubled or confu∣sedlie mixed, and set out of order, called in greeke Synchysis, and in Latin Inflatio ••culi.
Synchisis is a breaking or cutting of the eie comming by a stroke or of it self, in the innermost membranes vvith a dispearsing or ouerturning of the humours, and alteration of the ap∣ple of the eie, which in the beginning standeth foorth largely, but in the end is made lesse then nature affoordeth it: the humours of the eie in like ma∣ner possesse not their naturall place, neither keepe their appointed order, but are carryed hyther and thither, and mingled together (as we say) hād ouer head. This maladie ariseth after a great
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stroke or inflammation of the mem∣brane named Vuea, because some part in it is broken. Those are more easilie cured, vvhich haue the apple of the eie onelie made broder retaining still his colour and figure, then such as haue it rent, and as it were cut asunder. The cure must be in this order. If the inter∣medling and confusion of humours came by a stroke, first let the corrupt blood be quicklie taken away, then fill vpp the eie with blood of a Turtle or Pigion verie hot, and vppon it lay a Stupe (as it is commonlie named) of linnen cloth, or vvooll vvetted in the white of an egge and oyle of Roses beaten togeather, continuing the vse of it by the space of tvvo dayes or more if neede require it. Or the thirde day yo•• must vse a fomentation drop∣ping into the eye vvarme milke, or vvomans milke, and aftervvarde apply this medicine made of the yokes of egges hard rosted, mingled vvith hony and a little saffron to cleanse the part. In the rest of your cure, you shall haue in redinesse proper medicines for such accidents as may happen.