A most excellent and learned vvoorke of chirurgerie, called Chirurgia parua Lanfranci Lanfranke of Mylayne his briefe: reduced from dyuers translations to our vulgar or vsuall frase, and now first published in the Englyshe prynte by Iohn Halle chirurgien. Who hath thervnto necessarily annexed. A table, as wel of the names of diseases and simples with their vertues, as also of all other termes of the arte opened. ... And in the ende a compendious worke of anatomie ... An historiall expostulation also against the beastly abusers, both of chyrurgerie and phisicke in our tyme: with a goodly doctrine, and instruction, necessary to be marked and folowed of all true chirurgie[n]s. All these faithfully gathered, and diligently set forth, by the sayde Iohn Halle.

Of a disease in the eye, called Obtalmia. Cha. ii.

OBtalmia is an aposteme or inflation,* 1.1 or a course of hu∣mores to the eyes, whiche somtime is litell, & somtime greate, somtime very greate & euel, that whiche is litell, is made of smale humores, and sōtime only of an euel whote cōplexion, or of the heate of the sunne, of duste, of smoke, or of muche watchinge, whiche wil sone be dissolued, & made whole, with tempera••er of diete, and the white of an egge beaten & skummed, and so laied to the eyes. This medicine is good for burninge heat, and rednesse of the eyes, whē it is but lytell: & vnto many other infirmities, whiche comme of heat, because y^e white of an egge is colde, washing & apt for collyries, hauing a certeine gl••ines being applyed to y^e eies, whiche is not founde in other symple medicines. The

greate Obtalmia, is when the eye aketh. The Coniunctiua, being red, and the eye vexed with heat, sharpnes, & teares.

The greatest and worste Obtalmia, is that wherin there appeareth no parte of the Coniunctiua, but is couered ouer wyth a greate redde fleshinesse: the whole eye beinge in∣flated, and also the eie liddes, whiche are as it weare reuer¦sed: & thys doth sone vlcerate y^e eye. In the greater, & grea∣test kindes, it is necessarye (accordinge to their quantities) to draw bloude from the Cephalica veyne, and also to purge whotte humores: geuinge him lastly a diete so sclender, as the patiente maye continewe wyth: geuinge him also all hys meates actuallye colde, and in like manner what so e∣uer is putte into the eye: whiche when it waxeth whotte, muste be remoued. You maye also for thys purpose, laye to the eye Collyrium Album, distemperatum cum lacte mulieris puellā nutrientis. And emplaster the eye (vntill the inflāmation be remoued,) wyth an emplaster made, ex Rosarum Albarum & Santali Rubriana Vncia Vna, Farinae Hordeaceae Vnciis duabus. Ca∣phurae, drachma Vna, distemperatis cum Aqua Rosacea. And when the course of humores, and the payne is ceased: make fomē∣tation cum aqua decoctionis Rosarum, & pauco Sale. But if thys helpe not, it is nedefulle to aplye therto Collyrium de Thure, to maturate it, & after that Puluerem Citrinum, to mūdify it.

If after the Obtalmia, or by the same, there be made an vlcer in the eye: (wherof these are the signes, that in Co∣iunctiua there is a redde poynte, and in the cornea is a white poynte. (Then vse agayne collyrio Albo, to aswage the peine, or if the Ulcer be so greate, that thou feareste the goynge oute of Vuca, or that the disease called Bothor shoulde ensue, (whiche is a certayne eminence, appearinge in the eye, re∣semblynge the graine of a grape:) then shalle Heles••r be ne∣cessarye, whiche is to saye Penetratiuum. But if thou feare not thys, and wouldest heale the vlcer, vse collyrio de plum∣bo. If farthermore after consolidation of the vlcer, there do remaine Albula id est Cicatrix, you maye cure the same, cum collyrio de Stercore Lacerti.

Collyrium Album.

• Rec. Cerussae Ablutae, drachmas decem.
• Sarcocollae grossae, drach. tres.
• Amyli. drach duas.
• Tragacanthae. drach vnam.
• Opii, drachmae, semissem.

Beate all these well, and incorporate them with cleane rayne water. Then let it be very well wrought on a mar∣ble stone, and after make it vp in smalle pelletes, lyke len∣tilles, whiche at your times of nede, you may temper with the milke of a woman that nourisheth a maidē childe, and administer it wyth a fether.

Collyrium de Thure.

Whiche maturateth apostemes of the eyes.

• Rec. Thuris. drach. x.
• Antimonii. Singulorum drach. v.
• Sarcocollae. Singulorum drach. v.
• Croci. drach. ii.
• Conficiantur cum aqua Foenugraeci, ac fiat Col¦lyrium.

Puluis Citrinus.

• Rec. Sarcocollae. drach. x.
• Aloes. ana drachmas. ii.
• Croci. ana drachmas. ii.
• Lycii. ana drachmas. ii.
• ...

• Mirrhae drachmam. i.

Bruse all these together, and vse them.

Confectio Collyrii de Plumbo.

Whiche mundifieth and healeth the Ulcers of the eies

• Recipe. Plumbi vsti.
• Antimonii.
• Tutiae ablutae.
• aeris vsti
• Gūmi arabici
• Tragacanthae
  • Singulorū drach. viii,
• Opii drachmam dimidiam.

Confectio Helesir.

Whiche is to be vsed when thou fearest the eminence of Vuca to passe out, or the disease of the eye called Bothor.

• Rec. Antimonii
• Hematitae
  • ana drach. x.
• Acaciae drach. iiii.
• Aloes drach. i.

Bruse them, and forme them, after the maner and big∣nesse of Peper, cum succo Verbenae, Vel corrigiolae, and when nede shalbe, temper one of thē wyth the whyte of an egge, and applye it.

Notes

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