IMPROVED. 123 



Sir Kenelme Dighy is very full in its Commendation, Sir Kmclme 

 and is of Opinion, great Wonders are performed by ^'"'^ ^^^v^" 

 Sympathy. His Powder was a Preparation from poy,^er 

 Salt of Iron, or what we call Copperas ; but the 

 Receipt is not worth Tranfcribing, otherwife I 

 would give it the Reader. 



The Operation of the Powder ( as moll Prepara- 

 tions of Iron are ) was of a Styptick or binding Qua- 

 lity, much of the Nature of Dr. Eato?i's Balfamick 

 Styptick, fold by Patent, which is a very good and 

 pretty Compofition of Steel, or Iron, although 

 there feems to be an Abfurdity in the Title, to wit, 

 Balfamick Styptick, which is meer Nonfenfe : 

 However, I fiy, the Medicine is exceeding preva- 

 lent in many Diforders, attended with LofTes of 

 Blood ; and fuch Things when applied to Wounds 

 (that is frefh Wounds) bind up and Hop the Mouths 

 of the lacerated and torn Blood-Veffels, and by that 

 Means the Wound fooner confolidates or grows to- 

 gether. 



CHAP. XIV. 



Of Wounds or Bloi.vs on the Eye, and other ext&rnal 

 Accidents. 



IF the Reader will but give himfelf liberty toofWoun:!s, 

 ftudy a little the Anatomy of the Eye, accord- Blows, &c.' 

 ing to what I have already fet down, he will eafily ^^^ the tye, 

 judge whether it is the Cornea or Horny Coat, or 

 forae other Part of the Eye which is afFedled : But 

 as the Cornea or Horny Coat is moftly the Scene of 

 Adion in Wounds of the Eye, I fhail chiefly con- 

 fine myfelf to that particular Part in this Chapter : 

 For the Cornea or Tunica Adnata^ which is only 

 the opaque Cornea or White of the Eye ; I fay 

 thefe, or the one of thefe, always fulFer in Wounds, 

 Blows, l5c. of the Eye, and the more fo, accord- 

 ing as the inllrument with which the Wound 

 G 2 is 



