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when you have fuficiently well boiled it, take it off, and let it 

 ftand till it be through cold, then pcur away the clear from 



'2 bottom, which muft be cijftavAay, and tlie clear kept ia a 

 gidis Vial, very ciofc (topped arid bound up for your ufe ^ which 

 being thus carefu.iy kept, the water will remain in itsperfedi- 

 OH ibng. yea a whole year together or longer. This water 

 cureth aimoft all difeaies in the eyes^ as Films, Pearls, weeping 

 eyes, Pin and Web , Dragons, Cataraifts, dimnefs of light, 

 blindnefs, Rheumatick, v\atry, ftroak, blow or flripe of, or m 

 the eye, and To confequently in many other caies of the like 

 nature. "^^"^ And of this water I have had great experience. 



Another. 

 . Take Sal-Armoniack, Lapis Tutia prepared, Sagina, called 

 in Latine Panicum Iftdtcum-, and of Ginger, of each hair an 

 ounce, -and of white Sugar-candy two ounces, powder a!] thefc, 

 and fearfe them, and being well mixed, put this powder into 

 aclean and dry box, very clofe Hopped, and fo keep it that no • 

 air come to it for your ufe, and when you haveoccailon to ufe 

 of this powder, take a little thereof, and mix with it of the 

 juice of ground-Ivy, Alias Ale hoof, as much as will fuffic>e j 

 and fo twice a day convey thereof into his eye with a feathe^-, 

 till it be throughly whole. ^^^ This is a principal good re- 

 ceipt, I will give you another fpecialgood Receipt which will 

 cure all manner of foar eyes. 



Take the leaves and roots of Vervine, ordinary hony, and Ro- 

 man Vitriol, of each like much ^ beat, bruifc, and mix thele 

 together , and put it into a ftillatory glafs , and diftil it by 

 Balnea-Maria, with a gentle fire, and the water you take into 

 your Receptacle, put into a Vial-glafs, and keep it very clofe 

 ftopped, that ro air get into it, and when you are to ufe of the 

 fame water, pour of it a little into a lilvcr fpoon, and mix with 

 it of the fat of a Hen or Capcvn a fmall quantity, and therewith 

 anoint the fore eye twice a day, and it will cure the fame per- 

 fed:ly. "^^"^ I will give you another Receipt which will take 

 the film from off the eye albeit there be a very great anfd thick 

 ^kin grown. , ~ , 



,^ Take the gall of a Hare, and live honey, of each like much,put 

 them together into a fpoon, and hold the fpoon over the fire, 

 tillthe medicine be blood warm, and with a feather convey part 



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