The history of four-footed beasts and serpents describing at large their true and lively figure, their several names, conditions, kinds, virtues ... countries of their breed, their love and hatred to mankind, and the wonderful work by Edward Topsell ; whereunto is now added, The theater of insects, or, Lesser living creatures ... by T. Muffet ...
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The history of four-footed beasts and serpents describing at large their true and lively figure, their several names, conditions, kinds, virtues ... countries of their breed, their love and hatred to mankind, and the wonderful work by Edward Topsell ; whereunto is now added, The theater of insects, or, Lesser living creatures ... by T. Muffet ...
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Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?
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London :: Printed by E. Cotes for G. Sawbridge ... T. Williams ... and T. Johnson ...,
1658.
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Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works.
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Of the Canker in the Eye.
THis cometh of a ranck and corrupt bloud descending from the head into the eye. The signes. You shall see red pimples, some small, and some great, both within and without upon the eye-lids, and all the eye will look red, and be full of corrupt matter. The cure according to Martin is thus: First, let him bloud on that side the neck, that the eye is grieved, the quantity of a pottle. Then take of Roch Allum, of green Copperas, of each half a pound, of white Copperas one ounce, and boil them in three pintes of running water, untill the half be consumed, then take it from the fire, and once a day wash his eye with this water being made luke-warm with a fine linnen cloth, and cleanse the eye therewith so oft as it may look raw, continuing thus to do every day un∣till it be whole.