The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latine and compared with the French. by Th: Johnson

CHAP. I. How the losse of the naturall or true eye may bee covered, hidden or shadowed.

HAving at large treated in the former Bookes of tumours, wounds, ulcers, fractures and luxations, by what meanes things dissolved and dislocated might bee united, things united separated, and su∣perfluities consumed or abated: Now it remaines that we speak * 1.1 of the fourth office or duty of the Chirurgian, which is to supply or repaire those things that are wanting by nature, through the default of the first conformation, or afterwards by some mis∣chance. Therefore, if that through any mischance, as by an in∣flammation, any mans eye happen to be broken or put out, & the humors spilt or wa∣sted, or if it be strucken out of his place or cavity wherein it was naturally placed, by any violent stroak, or if it waste or consume by reason of a consumption of the proper substance, then there is no hope to restore the sight or function of the eye, yet you may cover the deformity of the eye so lost (which is all you can doe in such a case) by this meanes: If that when you have perfectly cured and healed the ulcer, you may put another eye artificially made of gold or silver, counterfeited and enamelled, so that it may seem to have the brightnesse, or gemmie decencie of the naturall eye, in∣to the place of the eye that is so lost.

[illustration]

The formes of eyes artificially made of gold or silver, polished and enameled, shewing both the inner and outer side.

But if the patient be unwilling, or by reason of some other meanes cannot weare this eye so prepared, in his head, you may make another on this wise. You must have a string or wiar, of iron bowed or crooked, like unto womens eare-wiars, made to bind the head harder or looser as it pleaseth the patient, from the lower part of the head behinde above the eare, unto the greater corner of the eye, this rod or wiar must be covered with silke, and it must also be somewhat broad at both the ends, lest that the sharpenesse thereof should pierce or pricke any part that it commeth unto. But that end wherewith the empty hollownesse must be covered, ought to bee broader than the other, and covered with a thin piece of leather, that thereon the colours of the eye that is lost may be shadowed or counterfeited. Here followeth the figure or portraiture of such a string or wiar.

[illustration]

The forme of an iron wiar wherewith the deformity of an eye that is lost may bee shadowed or covered.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The fourth du∣ty of a Surgeon.