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HOT OR SHARP HUMORS IN THE EYE. 
Beat the white of an egg in one gill of rain water, beat it 
well together, and put in-one ounce of white sugar—drop it 
in the eyes three times a day. Or drop in the juice of white 
daises morning and evening. Or boil one-half pound of 
running blackberry: leaves in one quart of spring water to a 
pint, dissolve in it one-half ounce of alum, and put in a drop 
in each eye three times a day. It will cure any sore. Or 
lay a thin slice of raw beef on the knap of the neck. — 
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FILM. | 
Dissolve one drachm of alum, one-half drachm stipe 
one-half drachm of salt, and one-half ounce of loaf sugar, in 
One gill of strong cider vinegar. Put in one drop morning 
and evening. Or mix juice of ground ivy with honey and 
salt. Drop it in same as the other. 
CLOUDS FLYING BEFORE THE EYES. 
Take a drachm of powdered wood betony every morning. - 
- BLINDNESS. 
Use cold bathings for thirty days, in the morning, and after 
you bathe wipe off dry and go to bed, and lay till warm. 
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EYES DIM OR DECAYED. 
Use eye-bright tea daily, or powdered eye-bright ; both in 
meat and drink. 
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BURNING EYES AND HOT RHEUM. 
Apply a thick apple paring, lying down in bed. , 
