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A special good water for red bleared eyes.

By Mrs. Birch my mother.

First, take Lapis calaminaris, not the male but the female, which is the grayer in colour, and the better for this purpose, and prepare it thus; cast it into the fire til it be red hot, then take it out and quench it in white wine; do thus so often til you perceive it is clean without metal and dross, afterward lay it in the May Sun all the time of May; which done, you may keep it to serve this purpose as long as you wil. And when you wil use it, you must take part thereof, and grind it upon a Painters stone into such fine powder as wil easily goe through a fine lawne; put this powder into a glasse with white wine, and drop therof with a feather into the sore eyes at going to bed, first one drop and after a little pawse another drop; thus do with either eye if they be both sore. It wil smart sore, but it wil do exceeding much good; for it wil both stop the humor whence the soreness proceeds, wherein the operation of it is most excellent, and also heal the sorenesse and rednesse of the eyes in short space.

Ere you put it up in the glasse, straine it through a course linnen cloth once or twice, for otherwise it wil be too rough and sharpe for ones eyes.

Also when you use it, you must shake your glasse for to stir up the powder, for otherwise it will lye still at the bottom.

For lack of White Wine you may make it with Fennel Water, but White-wine is the better, for that will skin the sorenesse.