Tes iatrikes kartos, or, A treatise de morborum capitis essentiis & pronosticis adorned with above three hundred choice and rare observations ... / by Robert Bayfield ...

CAP. LXX. De Cancro Corneae.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, corneae tunicae, is a little Ulcer, happening in the black of the eye, which cannot be closed, very painful, replete with swoln vessels, as in the disease called Varix; and some∣times when it seems to be closed up, upon no manifest occasion, it opens again, and becomes ul∣cerous.

This disease is accounted incurable, as well in the eye, as in any other part, when it is fixed; except it be taken away by manual operaton.

Amongst local medicines, the white of an Egg beaten with womans milk is to be praised by many; also Lintels sodden and steeped in Plan∣tain

water, or juyce, the Mucilages of Quinces, and Lin-seed, often renewed.

Moreover the flesh of Chickens is very pow∣erful of asswage pain; and some say that the disease it self hath been cured by it alone. Vide Tractatum meum de Tumoribus praeter naturam, sect. 2. cap. 7. pag. 98, & 99. Some apply the flesh of young Pigeons while it is warm, cut in thin broad pieces.

Sic etiam concipio hunc & praecedentem mor∣bum de Nomis (quamvis curatu impossibiles te∣neantur) curari posse Salivatione usu mercurii dul∣cis Antimoniique diaphoretici curiosè administra∣ti, procuratâ, post sufficientem totius corporis sar∣saeparillae, &c. decoctione, praeparationem. Vide dicta Zacuti Lusitani, & Mercurialis, supra posi∣ta, capite, 57. De Ophthalmia versus finem, ea∣que Alexandri Trajani, Petri, infra, capite de Suffu∣sione.