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. 1. Of the enlarged or broad apple of the eye, called in greeke mydriasis, or pla∣tycoriasis, in latin pupillae dilatatio: al∣so of the displaced apple of the eye, in latin pupillae e loco remotio.

MYdriasis or platicoriasis is, when the apple of the eye doth not al∣ter nor change his colour, but is grea∣ter then naturally it should be, stretch∣ing sometimes vnto the circle iris, or raine-bowe, whereby the sight is ey∣ther much empaired, or vtterly lost. They which are troubled with this di∣sease, thinke euerie thing vvhich they see to be greater then it is, which er∣rour commeth by the scattering of the spirites at the largenesse of the hole in the apple of the eye. Sometime it is not onely inlarged and stretched a∣broad, but it seemeth to be remooued from the middest of the eye, and to haue chaunged his place, which in A∣rnoldus is called, pupillae e loco remotio. Novv both these diseases happen ey∣ther naturally, or of some other cause. If they be naturall and from the birth, yet they hurt & hinder the sight. If any other cause haue procured them, it is either outwarde, as by a fall, or stroke: or invvarde by a recourse of humours, vvhich falling dovvne by little and lit∣tle, do cause the membrane vuea to be stretched out, where-vpon ensueth the enlarging of the apple of the eye. This

disease is hardly cured, because the coat vuea beeing much stretched foorth by his skinnie nature in continuaunce of time becommeth so harde, that it can∣not be afterward easily dravvne stray∣ter. They, whose eyes are naturally blacke, haue also the apple of their eye great, and for this cause doe easily in∣curre this inconuenience. Some see ve∣rie well, although they haue this de∣fault from their byrth. Concerning the cure, it is generall in good dyet, pur∣ging, cupping, rubbing, bloud let∣ting, both in the arme and corners of the eye, or particular in the vse of binding, and strengthening medicines, as fomentations and salues made ex rosis, croco, nardo, thuris cortice, pom∣pholyge, spodio, acatia, being proui∣dent to auoyde sharpe medicines, be∣cause they drawe downe great abun∣daunce of humours, vvhich still make the apple of the eye broader. And you must be no lesse circumspect that your medicines binde not ouer-much, least on the contrary the apple of the eye bee ouer strayte and little. Auicen commendeth this collirium. Take of the gall of a kidde and craine, of eche

three drammes, of saffton one dram, of pepper 170. graynes, of iuyce of ly∣quorice fiue drammes and an halfe, of armoniake twoo drammes, as much hony as vvill be sufficient, make them all into fine povvder, and then put to them fenel vvater, and with hony make them into little round balles.

Notes

• Definition.
• Signes.
• Pupillae e loco remotio.
• Causes.
• Praedictions.
• Blacke eyes haue the apple of the eye great.
• Cure.
• Obseruations.
• Auicen.