Lib. II. Of Cures Fhyfical, 141 



C H A p. X. -^ mofi rare approved Medicine for any defperate Blindnefs in a 

 Horfe proceeding from any Rheumatick Caufsy Surfeit ^Strain^Strokcj or fuch like 



TAKE of VermiUion,Bettony and Lavender,and beat them in a Mor- 

 tar with the beft Venice-Turpentine,till they come to a thick Salve 

 like Pafle : Then make it into Cakes or Troches, each as broad as a Groat, 

 and dry them : llien lay on one or two of them upon a Chafing-diih of 

 Coals : And then covering them with a Tunnel, let your Horfe receive 

 the Smoak up iuto his Koftrils, and this do Morning and Evening : And 

 every time you thus Fume him, you fnall alfo wafh his Eyes inwardly, 

 either with the Water of Eye-bright, fimply, or with the Water of Eye- 

 bright and the Juice of Ground-Ivy mixt together. Now I have known 

 many to miftake this Ground-Ivy, and fuppofe that the Ivy which is com- ^^r^ 

 mon, and runs along the Ground to be Ground-Ivy, but it is not ib^ for 

 Ground-Ivy is a Weed which commonly grows in bottoms of Hedges by 

 Ditch-fides, in good big tutfs, it hath a little round rougli Leaf, and is 

 jagged on the edges,and of ail Simples none is more foveraign for the Eyes. 



Chap. XI. Another mofi exeellent and approved Receipt for any defperate Blind- 

 nefs in a Horfe ^ or any Beafl whatfoever. 

 TAKE the Shells of half a dozen Eggs, and cleanfe away the inner 

 Film from them {o clean as|^may be, then lay thofe iliells between 

 two clean Tiles, and £0 lay them in hot glowing Embers, and cover them 

 all over, and on every fide, and {o let them lie a good Ipace till the iliells 

 be all dried, then take them up, and beat the Ihells to fine Powder, then 

 fearce it through a Launt to fine Duft, then with a Goofe-Qiiill blow tliis 

 Powder into the Horfe's Eye that is olfended with the Pin, Web, Film., or 

 any thicbiefs or foulnefs, and it is a certain Cure, and this do Morning, 

 Noon, and Night. 



But if it be for any watred or inflamed Eye, for any Bruife, Stripe, Lu- 

 natick, ordelcending humours, then take a Spoonful and a half of fine 

 fearfed Powder of White Sugar-candy, and mix it with the form.er Pow- 

 der of fliells, then with as much May -butter, (if you can get itj or for 

 want thereof, the bell Sweet-butter, without Salt. Work all into a 

 gentle Salve, and therewith anoint the Horfe's Eye Morning, Noon, and 

 Night, for it cleaaleth, purgeth, comforteth and cooleth. 



Chap. XII. Of the Pearl, Pin, Weh, or any Spot in a Horfe's Eye. 



^ I ' H E Pearl, the Pin, the Web, or any unnatural fpot, or thick Film 

 A ^ over a Horle's Eye, proceedeth, for the mofl part, from fomxe ftroke 

 received, yet the Pearl, which is a little round, thick, white fpot like .1. 

 Pearl, growing on the fight of the Horfe's Eye, comes many times from 

 natural Caufes, and even from defcent of Sire and Dam, as i have often 



found: 



