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CRithe is a small, harde, firme, and somewat long tumor, like vnto a barly corne whereof it hath the name, growing in the outmost parte of the eie-lidde, where the haires bee, which hath his humor contained in a little skinne, and it hardlie commeth to
suppuration or ripenesse. Galen na∣meth it in Greeke Posthia, which sig∣nifieth desire, as Philippus Imgrassias writeth, because that women when they haue conceiued are naturallie subiect to longing, and desiring of ma∣ny thinges, which if perhaps they bee in the power and possession of anye who will not giue it them at their re∣quest, they curse him with this ma∣ladie, and threaten him with crithe, which commonly befalleth them. In curing of it Auicen vseth the bloud of a pigeon, or turtle, and this liniment. R. oliban. mirrh. an ʒ ii. ladani. ʒ s boracis ʒ i. cum oleo liliorum fiat lini∣mentum. Antonius Musa appointed a plaister of galbanum mixed with nitrum Paulus made a fomentation of sod∣den barlye, Galen of the bloud of rauenous birdes which issueth from them after the head is pulled off, or els a plaister of white waxe. If the matter in it may bee euidently seene, Celsus commaundeth to open it, that the hu∣mor may run foorth which by the re∣sting therein might corrupt the gristle. But if this accident be in the outwarde part, to purge and clense it Aetius vseth
the yolke of an egge and honie ming∣led together, and to engender and re∣store flesh, puluis capitalis. If the gristle be corrupted within, then hee turneth the eye-lidde, scrapeth away so muche of the gristle as is decayed and defiled, putteth vpon it orichalcum burned and made in fine powder, and vppon that the yolke of an egge mingled with ho∣nie and oyle of roses: on the seconde day he vseth a fomentation, and con∣tinueth the former medicine: on the third day he filleth vp the eye-lid with honie, and vpon it applieth a collyrium hauing force and vertue to repell, o•• beate backe,
Definition.
Galen.
It is reported of the Ro∣maines. Cure.
Antonius Musa.
Aegniet. Galen.
Celsus.
Aetius.