The Kitchin-physician, or, A guide for good-housewives in maintaining their families in health wherein are described the natures, causes, and symptoms of all diseases, inward and outward, incident to the bodies of men, women, and children : prescribing natural, useful and proper medicines, both in physick and chirurgery, as well for the prevention as speedy cure of the said distempers : adorned with sculptures ... / published for the common good ... by T.K., Doctor in Physick.

37. To take Spots and Webs out of the Eyes.

Take the new-laid Eggs of a black Hen, roast them hard in hot ashes, cut them in four equal parts, take out the yolks, fill them with white-sugar-candy ••ruised, then strain them through a clean ••innen-cloth very hard; this water or Oyl ••s good to drop into Eyes, at any time of the day or night.

Or, you may make a water of white-Coperas, Sugar-candy, Rose-water, and the white of Eggs hard-boyled; strain these through a linnen-cloth, drop this in∣••o the Eyes at noon, after dinner, and at light when you go to bed. Also the ••owder of white-beans onely put into the Eyes, is very good.

Or, take prepared Tutty scrap'd small ••ne ounce, Broad-sword half an ounce; soak his in Rose-water and white-wine, of ••ach about one pint; let it stand six weeks together in the Sun, in a well-stopp'd-glass, when the Sun shines bright, but ••ake it away when it shineth not; stir the glass twice or thrice a day, to an Eye-••alve. These Remedies also serve against Red and Blear'd-eyes.