CAP. LXXXVI. De Epiphora, seu Lachrymis involuntariis.

〈 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 Page  129 & myrtyllorum, ana, ʒ i. ss. acacia & hypocistidos, ana, ʒ i. thuris, mastiches, ana, ℈ ii. rosarum rubr. p. i. Powder them, and mix them with the white of an Egg, and a little vinegar, make a Cata∣plasm, which spread upon a cloth, and apply to the forehead and temples, and renew it as fast as it groweth dry.

Some highly commend the opening of the veins and arteries in the head and temples, which draweth out the humor, if it flow inward, and cutteth off the course of it, if it be outward: Moreover, many remedies may be found for this malady, in the Chapter de Ophthalmia.