Of Lunaticke eies. [ 30]
VEgetius writeth De oculo lunatico, but he sheweth neither cause nor signes thereof, but onely saith that the old men tearmed it so,* 1.1 because it maketh the eie sometime to looke as though it were couered with white, and sometime cleare.
Martin saith, that the horsse that hath this disease, is blind at certain times of the Moone, insomuch that he seeth almost nothing at all during that time, and then his eyes will look yellowish: yea, and somewhat reddish, which disease according to Martin, is to be cured in this sort. First vse the plaister mentioned before in the chapter of waterish or weeping eies, in such order as is there prescribed, and then with a sharpe knife make two slittes on [ 40] both sides of his head an inch long, somewhat towardes the nose, a handfull beneath the eies, not touching the vaine: and with a cornet loosen the skinne vpward the breadth of a groat, and thrust therein a round peece of leather, as broad as a two penny peece, with a hole in the middest to keepe the whole open, and looke to it once a day, that the matter may not be stopped, but continually run the space of ten daies, then take the leather out, and heale the wound with a little flax dipt in the salue heere following: Take of Turpen∣tine, of hony, of wax, of each like quantity, and boile them togither, which being a little warmed, wil be liquid to serue your purpose, and take not away the plaisters from the tem¦ples vntil they fal away of themselues, which being fallen, then with a smal hot drawinge yron, make a starre in the midst of each Temple vaine where the plaister did lie. Which [ 50] star would haue a hole in the middest made with the button end of your drawing yron.
Another of lunaticke or moone eies.
* 1.2OF these Lunaticke eyes, I haue knowne diuers: they are blinde at certaine times of the Moone, they are very redde, fiery, and full of filme: they come with