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
- Author
- 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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CIrsos is a stretching foorth of the veine most vsually proceeding of melancholike bloud. Atheroma is filled with matter like vnto a pulteise of wheat meale. Steatoma containeth matter not much differing from sewit: the humor in meliceris resembleth ho∣nie. All these humors are enfolded in a little bladder or skinne, and with the same oftentimes may be founde many other straunge bodyes, as stones, haire, nailes, glasse, yea little beastes, like to flies or gnattes. In the cure, the skinne of the eye-lidde must be cut e∣uen to the bladder which keepeth the humor, and if it be possible it must bee wholy together taken out: for if anye parte remaine, the disease returneth. Therefore, if by occasion you be con∣strained to leaue any parte behinde (as sometime it falleth out that must bee cōsumed by medicins which haue ver∣tue to mollify & procure suppuration, but in fine such as do clense & increase flesh in the wounde. But concerning varices or swollen veines, Aetius would not haue them handled, because they are rebellious and malignant for the most parte, as also certaine other
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redde painefull tumors are in like sorte pestilent and incurable.
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Definition.
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Cure.
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Aetius forbid∣deth medling with varix.