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214 The C'o?npkat Hcrfe-matt^ CE^AP. VI, 



SECT. 5. E, 



Hippophilus. 



7 Hat remedy is to be had for the Eye that is charged with a 

 FHfn-, Pm and Weh-^ or with Dragons^ C^c. 



HippoferHs. Thefe difeafes in the Eye do come fome*- 

 « times by means of -fome pain in the hcad^ which caufeth ^ 



Rhetime to fall into the Eyes , and fometimes by means of 

 Rheums themielves, which cauling the Eyes to water, doin-- 

 gender thefe difeafes, and fometimes again it is occalioned by 

 meansof a.flripe, or Hay-dufti or fome hame which may be 

 gotten into the Eye. I need not deliver you the figns whereby 

 to know them, they are villble to the light. The cure there- 

 fore is thus. ' • *"' 

 EyeFilm, TakeGamfire of ^zl-ArmomacHmy or for want of either of 

 Pin and thefe, white Sugar-Candy : any of thefe three being made into 

 ^j^^^' ^ very fine powder, and blown into the £j^^ three times a day, 

 are moffe fovereign to cure thefe; difeafes in the (fy^^ ofaHorfe, 

 but Szl-Jrmomacum isthevery befl of thera all. *^^ But if a 

 Film or Pearl, without a pin and Web do grow in the Eye, 

 then take up both the tvio weeping veins firll, which are under 

 the Eyes j and then give a Canteriz^e to either place, viz.i to 

 open the ji^« all along to the very Eyes, and put into each 

 of them, a quill cut in thenjiiddk, thenoftimes cleanfe them, 

 and comfort the places Canteriz^ed qv rowledwixJa Vngitemum Po- 

 fukmn^ and wadi the Eyes everyday three times with eye-bxight 

 water, mingled with the juice of Smallage, and about fifteen 

 days after, take away the quils-,; and after walh the eyes with 

 cold Fountain water. Anoth^f .• ,But if it be a Pin and Web, 

 then .ii:r^'3-i9ii i, 

 Pin and Take Cuttle-bone, Tartar, Salt Gem, of each like much,j 

 Web, make them all into pure fine powder, and with a quill bloi 

 of this fine powder well mixed, into his eye two or three tim( 

 a day or ottner. -^^"^ This have I tryed and found to be fpecil 

 al ^ood. But if it be a Pearl that theHorfe hath in his Eye j 

 tfben'' 

 Pearl or Take the angrieft tops of red Nettles, and ftamp them well i 

 Film. and 



