ON DISEASES OF THE EYES. 5II 



Dip a pledget of lint (for tow or hurds are 

 too har(h) into the mixture warmed, and apply 

 it frefli once a day, until the wound be healed. 

 Should fomentations be necellary, take the 

 following form : elder-flowers, red rofes, and 

 mallows, each a handful; nitre, half an ounce; 

 Goulard's Extra6l, three tea fooonsful. Infufe 

 in a quart boiling water, ftrain through a linen 

 cloth, and whan cold, add half a pint Red Port 

 wine. Ufe two thick woollen cloths alternately 

 half an hour, the liquor not being made too 

 hot, but warmed again, (hould it grow too cool - 

 the quantity will laft two days, and the eye may 

 be fomented five or fix times. 



The Haw, is a preternatural enlargement 

 and fponginefs of the caruncle, or flefhy fub- 

 liance, in the inner corner of the eye next the 

 nofe ; the excefs of it fometimes caufes the 

 ligament which runs along the verge of the 

 membrane, to comprefs the eye-ball like a 

 hoop, when the common operation of cutting 

 out the haw is abfolutely neceifary, nor is there 

 any danger, if too much fubflance be not 

 taken away, an error fometimes committed by 

 the farriers. Drefs with honey of rofes ; if 

 fungous flefh, fprinkle v/ith burnt allum, or 

 touch with blue vitriol. In cafe of defluxion 

 and weaknefs, brace with aqua-vegeto. In 

 very painful wounds or inflammations of ihc 

 eye, diluted tin8:ure of opium. Saline purges 



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