Enchiridion medicum: containing the causes, signs, and cures of all those diseases, that do chiefly affect the body of man: divided into three books. With alphabetical tables of such matters as are therein contained. Whereunto is added a treatise, De facultatibus medicamentorum compositorum, & dosibus. / By Robert Bayfield.

CHAP. V.

OPHTHALMIA, * 1.1 is an inflammation of the coat Adnata, and consequently of the whole eye, with beating, and great pain.

It may be caused either by a fall, * 1.2 a stroak, dust, or small sand flying into the eyes: or by a defluxion of a thin hot humour upon the eyes, or an inflammation of the Dura mater, or peri∣cranium, may be the cause.

The signes are great heat, * 1.3 rednesse, and pain, which sometimes is so vehement, that it forceth the eyes out of their orbe, and breaketh them asunder: they are sometimes taken with vomi∣ting, which is a sign that the matter of the di∣sease proceeds from the stomack.

Their diet must be moderate, * 1.4 and of a cool∣ing quality, and if nothing forbid, give him a gentle purgation, and open a vein in the arm. But Galen commends the opening of a vein in the forehead, to be a most speedy help. Then use repercussives, as

℞. * 1.5 Aq. ros. rub. & plantag. an. ℥.ss. mucagin. gum. tragacanth. ʒ.ij. album ovi quod suf∣ficit. f. collyrium.

Let certain drops be dropped into the eye, and presently after, apply this cataplasme to the eye.

℞. * 1.6 Medul. pomor. sub ciner. coctorum ℥.iij. lactis muliebris ℥.ss. fiat cataplasma.

Notes

• * 1.1

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.2

  Causa.
• * 1.3

  Signa.
• * 1.4

  Curatio. Victus ra∣tio Venae-sectio Galenus.
• * 1.5

  Collyrium. Paraeus.
• * 1.6

  Cataplas. Karaeus.