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. VIII.

AEGILOPS, * 1.1 fistula lacrymosa; or weeping fistula of the eye, it is in the corner there∣of, near unto the nose, where there is a glandule made for the receiving, and retaining moy∣sture; for the humecting the eye, lest it should drie by continual motion: This glandule some∣times swells, impostumates, and ulcerates: by reason of a sanguine, * 1.2 or pituitous defluxion, falling violently from the brain, and in time it rotteth the bone that lyeth under it.

There is for the most part a tumour of the bignesse of a pease, * 1.3 the which being pressed, floweth with a sanious, serous, red, or white, and viscid matter: In time they cause an Atro∣phia

of the eye, in some blindnesse, * 1.4 and a stink∣ing breath.

Some chirurgions cut up the uppermost skin, * 1.5 and wring or presse out the impostume, which lieth lockt in a little bladder; and cut it off as near as may be, the rest they take away with an actual cautery: The same swelling doth set∣tle it self otherwhiles in the length of the eye-lids, yet both are to be holpen with oat-meal, wine, and Tutiae, tempered together in manner of a salve: * 1.6 Anchylops somewhat differs from Aegilops, for that is a superfluous flesh in the cor∣ners of the eye, whereto humours gather.

℞. Thuris, sarcocollae, aloes, sang. dracon. * 1.7 ba∣laust. antimonii, aluminis, an. ℈.j. floris gr. v. fiat pulvis, & cum aqua rutae f. colly∣rium. Forestus.

Notes

• * 1.1

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

  Causa.
• * 1.3

  Signa.
• * 1.4

  Prognostic.
• * 1.5

  Curatio.
• * 1.6

  Anchylops.
• * 1.7

  Collyrium.