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

CHAP. 5. Of the fallng of haire from the eieliddes or bauldnesse of them called in Greeke Maedarosis and Milphosis, in latine Def••••∣uium pilorum or Glabaties palp••bra••um al∣so of thicknesse ioyned with baldnesse in the eyeliddes, called in greeke Ptilosis 〈◊〉〈◊〉 latine, Cra••sittes callo sapa••polrarum.

MAdarosis is onelye taken for the falling of hayre from the eyelids by a flovving of sharpe humours, and vvhere the hayres do simply fall avvay, and the vtmost part and banckes as it vvere of the eyelids are red like vnto leade the affection is called milphosis or miltosis. The cause according to Auicen is grosse salt matter, which maketh the eyeliddes redde, bringing vlceration to the parts where the haires take roote, the eye thereby being sometime im∣paired and corrupted. ••ut if the edges and bankes thereof growe thicke and hard in such maner that the haire can∣not there bee fastened and perce tho∣rough the disease is named ptilosis

iointly mixed and compounded of madarosis and xeropthalmia. The cause as Auicen recordeth, is not onely in re∣gard of the matter (as when vermine and wormes are engendred, or rather when the humour is salte) but also in respect of the place, as when it is harde and thick, which hindereth the passage of the vapours whereof haire is engen∣dred, so that they cannot come to the edges of the eie-lidds. In the cure you shall haue regard to make sweete this humour so sharpe, and so biting, and if any vermine bee there, they shalbee either taken away, or distroied by me∣dicines applied for that purpose. This being done, lay to it such remedies as haue force and vertue to make haire grovve. Auicen aduaunceth mise∣dounge beaten to powder, as also al∣coole cum melle. VVhere the eie-liddes are thicke hee vseth this Cataplasme of Endiue, oile of Roses and white of an egge, cōmending moreouer the vse of bathes in the morning.

Notes

• Definition.
• Milphosis.
• Causes.
• Cure.
• Auicen.