104) MOON EYES. 



This ball must be given in the morning fasting ; 

 in two hours after, give him a mash, and warm 

 water; and treat in the same manner as in page 21, 

 for physic. It will be proper to repeat the physic 

 every five or six days for two or three times. 



Ro welling under the jaw, or on the breast, will 

 be found very useful ; as will also blistering the 

 cheeks with the essence (No. 133). Should 

 the eye or eyes continue much inflamed, after 

 taking the aforesaid physic, it will not be proper 

 to have recourse again to general, but local, bleed- 

 ing ; as scarifying the distended vessels of the 

 white of the eye with a lancet, or applying six or 

 eight leeches just under the eye. After the in- 

 flammation has somewhat abated by these means, 

 I have ordered the following lotion, which I have 

 found highly efficacious in removing this formidable 

 disease, and also in preventing a return of it ; for 

 which purpose it must be used night and morning 

 twice or three times a week, after the inflammation 

 has left the eye, and continued, more or less fre- 

 quent, till there is little fear of its return again. 



(RECIPE, No. 77.) 

 Eye Lotion. 

 Vinegar and decoction of oak bark, of each six ounces; 

 Tincture of opium, half an ounce: 

 Let the eye and the eyelids be gently bathed night 

 and morning, or oftcner, with a clean linen rag 

 dipped in it. 



