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films only I will give you one or two Receipts. But firii it- 

 were fit you Ihould underftand liow this Difeale cometh to a 

 Horfe, If he be fubjed to have a thicknefs or white films in 

 his eyes •, it cometh mo/l commonly of a rhume which pafTeth 

 into his eyes from his head^ which you may foon perceive by his 

 continual weeping, and fending forth w^atery moifture, vi^hich 

 will ran from his eyes upon hhface •, which when you Ihall ob- 

 ferve,letthen his Keener fundry times every day wafh-and bathe 

 his eyes with cold water newly drawn from the W e!l ; and this 

 will prevent hh films, and cure that ///.v or rhume-, but if the 

 flints do comz before you obferye that he had any fuch rhume or 

 riJnningat the eyes: Then 



Take mans dung, and put itinto a Firepan-, and-fo burn it 

 uiitil it rcjme to be a cole, then'beatit to fine powder, and 

 pjt that into a Goofe qiiil, and [>loW it into his eyes twice a 

 day •, and this will clear his.f)'fi again. •^^'^' 



Take alfo the tops of the angrielt young red Nettles, a 

 handful, and Itamp them very well, then put it into a fine 

 Linnen cloth, and then dip it into Beer a little, and fo flrain 

 forth the juice j vvhich done, put a i'ew grains of fait, bay- oiv 

 w'hitetoit^ ancl when it is diflblvcd drop of this liquor intoi 

 the grieved eyey one drop , and do thus morning and evening, 

 and it will take away not only a ^//w, and other fuch like 

 thicknefs which may hinder his/{{^'^r, but it will alfo takeaway 

 aTearl. Thefe two. receipts I have oftenj^radifed, and 1 have, 

 found- them , very good. J^-)(.* r^.'T:.. ;j 



' Hippophilus. / have heard fome fay that they can make a Horfi- 

 fuddenly hiind, arid yet after reflore him to. his ferfeii faht itgain ; n 

 but I think they do boafl and crack of more than they be able to do-^. 

 fmv think^you Hippoferus?, - ^^. , ^ .. ...r-^ > - l ;, ■ j 5'.d 



I-fippoferf'ts. Why truly '^rr.ttils fs e'afily doBC, . gn^.t^wiiliy- 

 briefly difcover untoyou thefecret, which is thus. .' .! ■i-^'J) 



Take Saffron, and dry it,, and make the fame into very ^.r 

 fine powder as much as will fufiice, and put of this pow:d€H;j 

 into a quill, and fo blow it into his eyes, and when it hathj;- 

 remained there by the fpace of half a quarter of an hoiu', wip^ - 

 this powde-rfrom.his eyes fo clean, as that it may not be di^- 

 c^rfied', and this will make. him ftonc blind, -Butif y^v^Cj^;!- 

 firous to have him to reafRime his fight again, then', 



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