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The man who putteth upon his eyes for about tliiiLy 

 nights, part of tlie suet of a fox, he will be for ever 

 healthy. 



2. If there be a mist before the eyes, t;ike a eliih.ls 

 urine and virgin honey, mingle together of both eipial 

 quantities, smear the eyes therewith on tlie inside. 



3. Again, mingle together a erabs gall/ and a sal- 

 mons, and an eels, and field bees honey, smear the 

 eyes inwardly witli the salve. 



4. Against a white spot in the eye; rub to dust 

 burnt salt, and swails apple, and olusatrum, of all equal 

 quantities, rub to dust, and put on the eyes, wash 

 lightly with spring water, smear afterwards with 

 womans milk. 



5. If there are worms in the eyes, scarify the lids 

 within, apply to the scarifications the juice of celan- 

 dine ; the worms will be dead and the eyes healthy. 

 If flesh v/ax on eyes, wring wormwort into the eyes, 

 till they are well. 



G, If red sponges wax on the eyes, drop on them 

 hot culvers blood, or swallows, or womans milk, till the 

 sponges be got rid of If eyes are bleared, take dry 

 rue and virgin honey, mingle together, let it stand for 

 three nights, wring through a thick linen cloth, and 

 afterwards apply to the eyes. Work a good dry salve 

 for dim vision thus : take swails apple, and l)UiMit 

 salt, and pepper, and olusatrum, and mastich ; rub 

 to dust, sift through a cloth, apply by little and 

 little. Again, reduce to dust mastich, and burut 

 oyster shell, and use as need be ; either hath power 

 to remove white spot from the eyes. Work a 

 smooth eyesalve fJtus ; take buttei-, boil in a pan, 

 skim the foam off, and purify the butter in a dish; 

 put the clear part again into a pan ; pound celandine 



15(...k III. 

 Cli. ii. 



' " Corvi marini fcl." Marcellus, 

 col. 277. F. If that passage were 

 in view, this fish would be the 



mullet, MiKjil cefalus : hut I follov/ 

 the passage in Wanlc}, p. IG8a. 

 IIa3)ci>n v.i another spelling. 



