The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters.

CHAP. IV. Of the Eye-lids and Eye-brows.

* 1.1BEcause we have faln into mention of the eye-lids, and eye-brows, and because the order of dissection also requires it, we must tell you what they are, of what they consist, and how, and for what use they were framed by Nature. Therefore the eye-brows are nothing else, than a ranck of hairs set in a semicircular form upon the upper part of the Orb of the eye,* 1.2 from the greater to the lesser corner thereof, to serve for an ornament of the body, and a defence of the eyes against the acrimony of the sweat falling from the fore-head.

* 1.3But the eye-lids on each side two, one above, and another below, are nothing else than as it were certain shuttings appointed and made to close and open the eyes when need requires, and to contain them in their Orbs. Their composure is of a musculous skin, a gristle and hairs set like a

pale at the sides of them to preserve the eyes when they are open, chiefly against the injuries of small bodies, as motes, dust, and such like. These hairs are alwayes of equal and like bigness, im∣planted at the edges of the gristly part, that they might alwayes stand straight and stiffe out. They are not thick, for so they should darken the eye. The gristle in which they are fastned is en∣compassed with the Pericranium stretched so far before it produce the Conjunctiva. It was placed there, that when any part thereof, should be drawn upwards or downward by the force of the broad muscle, or of the two proper muscles, it might follow entirely and wholly by reason of its hardness. They call this same gristle, especially the upper, Tarsus.* 1.4 The upper and lower Eye-lid dif∣fer in nothing, but that the upper hath a more manifest motion, and the lower a more obscure: for otherwise Nature should have in vain encompassed it with a musculous substance.

Notes

• * 1.1

  What the Eye-brows are.
• * 1.2

  Their use.
• * 1.3

  What the Eye-lids are.

  Their compo∣sure and use.
• * 1.4

  What the Tar∣sus is.