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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PSoropthalmia is when the eyeliddes are redde, and salt biting teares is∣sue from them, the corners of the eyes hauing vlceration and reddnesse vvith much itching. This proceedeth from salt sharpe fleume flovving dovvne to the eie stirring vp this itching and fret∣ting. To cure it you must chaunge the course of the humour by bloodletting, cupping, rubbing on the shoulders, ab∣staining from all salt slimy meates. In particular you must vse fomentations ex posca lenticulae decocto, & rosarum, aftervvardes apply collirium philoxeni vvhich is named of AEtius achariston, because the Patient is not able suffici∣ently to requite it: it is this R. cadmiae ʒ. ii. chalcitidis crudae ʒ. i. aloes, obol. ii. aerug. obol. ii. piperis gran. x. florum ro∣sarum ʒ. iii. beate them together and vse them. My counsel is to put to them vng. pomat. to bring thē to such a fit & commodious fourme for your vse as is vnguentum de tutia, and then to put some of it into the corners of the eyes. For the itching after you haue applied your fomentations vse this collyrium Take Rose vvater and plantine water. ana. ℥ ii. in which boile with a soft fire
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aloes hepaticae ʒ s of white coporas ℈. ii. of sugar Candie ʒ. i. this eiesalue consumeth & drieth the sharpe fleume and giueth strength to the eie.
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Definition.
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Causes.
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Cure.
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Collyrium Philoxeni.
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Medicines a∣gainst itching