CAP. LXXXVI. De Epiphora, seu Lachrymis involuntariis.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is here taken for the defluxion of a thin Rheum, which daily flows from the corners of the eyes. Some from their childhood are troubled with this malady, never having dry, but always moist eyes, with a thin piercing humor.
New Epiphora's coming from outward causes are easily cured, especially in youth; but old, and in old men very hardly. Quae verò ex aliis mor∣bis procedunt, ut agylope, fistula lachrymali & si∣milibus, ab illorum affectuum curationibus omninò dependent.
In a stubborn Epiphora, a Vesicatory applied to the forepart of the head doth wonders; as Forestus sheweth, concerning an old woman who had sore eyes, weeping and mattery, with great pain and itching, and could by no means be cu∣red, that with applying a plaister of Cantharides, with Honey and Leaven to her head being sha∣ven, he perfectly cured her.
This following Cataplasm is of singular use, if the defluxion come from a sharp hot humour.
℞ Boli armeni, sanguinis dracon. balaustiorum