Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

Of the diseases of the eyen. Chap. 15.

* 1.1 TEching and smarting of the eien commeth sometime of outwarde things, as of wounds, departing & dea∣ling the continuance of the eien, and of dust, that hurteth the eien and the tender substance of them: & of smoake that dim∣meth the eien and maketh them smart: and of colde winde smiting the spirit of sight: Also of hot aire that dissolueth and departeth: also of too great brightnes of the Sun, or of other bright things, that departeth and sheddeth the spirit: Of too great darknesse that defoileth the spirit of sight, and of vnordinate dyet, & of continuall dronkennesse that dim∣meth the sight: of fleshlye lyking and ofte seruice of Venus, that corrupteth and dissolueth the spirites & the humour Christallin: Somtime of inward matter & causes, as of humours hot or cold, dry, or moist: and then the first & chiefe ach & smarting commeth of inward things, which breed a postume vpon y^e white of the eie, of humours y^e slow & come of the black of the eye, & make a postume. And that commeth of feeblenesse of the eye, y^t it receiueth, & of plentie or of sharpe bi∣ting of humour that fleeteth & commeth from the braine. And in such a postume the eie swelleth: weepeth & is red and feeleth ach and pricking, heat: burning, namly, when (h•••••• is the cause, thē it seemeth that the eie were pricked with néedles: and if a cold humour be y^e cause, or els ••entositie, y^e eie is haled & grieued by night, & is clāmed: full many humors run & fleét, & be clammy, & is most pai∣ned with humour and sleame. And if bloud be the cause, then is great itching, many teares & hot in the outgoing ther∣of, light pricking, more swelling, ach. & smarting most in the forhead, & is most grieued in y^e houre of bloud. If this euill commeth of outward things, the patient shall be brought to rest, & sleepe with his head areared on high, & for running of teares, he shal the shining & brightnesse of light. To void dissolution & shedding of light, he shall not speake least ther be great dissolution of the brain by forcing of the voice: He shall ••aue colde meat, & of light digestion, least the fleeting of rame increase: He shal drinke cleere hot water: for it wasteth smoakes by y^e kind of his smoak, & comforteth the sinews, & swageth burning and pricking: He shal vse temporate baths of fresh water. If this be done, there neede no other medi∣cines: and if y^e ach come of inner humors y^t the default is in, they shall bee purged or withdrawne by bloud letting, or by couenable purgation of medicine: Men shall do within binding medicines, sla∣king & healing as water of roses, with womans milke, as Constant. saith. The tears shal be stinted with restrictortes & stintings. Then in the beginning men shal do therto light repere••ssiues & swa∣ging medicines inward, & in the maca∣sing meanely Daslelutiles, & in the end: Consumtifes, & alway with these Con∣fortatifes. About a postume of the eye. Maturatiues shal neuer be put, least the tender substance of the eie be destroied, if quitter come out. Moreouer if y^e mat∣ter be very hot, & the ach strong, strong Percussiues shal not be done therto: for the matter might sodeinly be smitten to y^e sinew Opticum, holow: & by stopping might induce blindnesse for euer more

Blearinesse of eien is claminy & glewy superfluitie of the eien cleuing to y^e lids, & commeth of flumatike & melancholik humours, & beginneth in the corners of y^e eien, & maketh the eie lids great, & ouer cōmeth them, & this destroieth the haire of the lids, and maketh the eie lids as it wer péeces of raw flesh. In bleared eien the black is whole & sound, as it is said in Glosa Leuit. 21. but the humour fal∣leth away, the eie lids were great: And by oft washing therof, y^e eie sight appai∣reth: & tokeneth them that haue a cléere wit in knowldege of truth: but y^e worke of fleshlye life maketh them darke and dimme.

Notes

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  Passioni∣bus oculo∣rum. Oculu••. Opthal∣mos.