A physical nosonomy, or, A new and true description of the law of God (called nature) in the body of man confuting by many and undeniable experiences of many men, the rules and methods concerning sicknesses or changes in mans body, delivered by the ancient physicians and moderns that followed them ... : also, in the second part of this book is a practice of physick drawn from the best of the moderns and completely treating of those diseases specified in the table formerly, writ by the author, though added to these new scrutinies as if they were a latter work / by William Drage ...

CHAP. XV.

Of Emphysema, or a Windy Tumor of the Eye-lids.

A Loose tractable and flatulent Tumour of the Eye-lids is called, Emphysema Ophthalmon by the Greeks; Iuflatio Palpebrae by the Latines, and is a puffing up of the Eye-lid from a windy Matter.

Causes, Internally or Externally fomenting it; as watchings, in Fevers, & Cachectick Bodies, often a serous Matter falling or translated thither, effects these kinds of swellings; sometimes an Airy matter puffs it up. The stinging of Bees, Wasps, Hornets, or Nettles, are External Causes.

CURE.

In Cure, we must first use Generals, and respect the habit, specially in Cachectick and Hydropick Bodies, where such a matter is generated ••••om plenty, or a crude, and vaporours Airy Matter, and weakness of na∣••ive heat in digesting it: Topicals must be emolient and dissipating, and

withal, corroborating, and resolving Cataplasms of Cummin-Seeds, with Milk, of Lentiles, and Honey, of Aetius: if it come through sting of a Bee, Wasp, Hornet, Nettle, &c. some advise to Treacle mixt with Plantane-Water, or the Bee that stung is to be bruised and apply∣ed; also a Colliry of Pulp of Crabs, Yolks of Eggs, and Womans Milk, is good in such a case; above other things, some extol greatly an Emplaister of holy-Thistle, beaten with Whites of Eggs, spread upon flaxen Hards, for the Eye-lids swelled and pained from the stinging of Bees, and other venemous Creatures.