Anatomia sambuci, or, The anatomy of the elder cutting out of it plain, approved, and specific remedies for most and chiefest maladies : confirmed and cleared by reason, experience, and history / collected in Latine by Dr. Martin Blochwich ...

CAP. VIII.

Of the Affects of the eyes.

PLaterus Tom. 2. praxeos. hath ob∣served, that Chirurgeons used to apply to sore eyes a Pill of the Elder, macerated in common, or Rose water, or other convenient, to mitigate the pain.

The water of the flowers of the El∣der, mixt with a like proportion of Rose water, wounderfully mitigateth ophthalmike pains, and strengthen∣eth the sight; into which some∣times prepared tutty in a knot is to be put, to ease the itch, and a spunge of the Elder, macerated in Pennyroyal water, to be applyed to the nuke or hollow of the neck.

This following liquor anointed on the eyelids with a feather is profi∣table.

R. Elder flowers gathered in the

month of June, before the rising of the Sun, and picked from their stalks as much as you will; beat them in a Marble Morter; and in a glass well stopped, expose them for a month to the rayes of the Sun; them let then be involv'd in a leavened Rie loaf, and baked with other bread in an oven; which being taken out and opened, you shall find an oleaginous liquor, which you must carefully preserve in another glass for your use.

The tender and recent leaves, with polent or barly meal, applyed to in∣flammations, doth mitigate them, by dissolving and digesting, as was taught before by Dioscorides; which may be used externally in Ophthalmies, gene∣ral Medicines being premised. Or ra∣ther use this Cataplasme, which did much help in a more vehement tumor of the eyelids, whereby the whole eye was hid. Make of the Mucilage of the seed of Psyllium, and Linseed, extracted by the best water of Elder flowers, of each six drachmes, add of

Elder oyl half an ounce, and as much meal of the flowers as will suffice.

Make thereof a Cataplasm.

The little spunge of the Elder ma∣cerate well in the best water of the flowers til they swell great, do wipe away gallantly the dirt and matter in those blemishes, and in all other wounds and ulcers of the eyes, imme∣diately laying thereon a tender and recent Elder leaf.

They say that the ashes thereof blown in the eye, hath consumed a beginning Panincle.