2i8 The Comfleat Eorfeman, 'CHAP. VI IT. 



of this medicine into t\\Qeye o( the Horfe, and thus d'refs liim 

 morning and evening, and in fhort time it will take it quite 

 away, foas thery^ will become as bright and clear again as ever 

 it was before, ■^^.'*' This Receipt I do hold no v^^hit inferlour to 

 any of the former, for I have often made ufe thereof. But if your 

 Horfe have gotten a Itripe in the eye^thtn let him bloo^ in the necl^ , 

 and in the weeping vein^ on the fame fide where the ftripe is,then 

 Take white Rofe water, and the white of a new^ laid egg, beat 

 them very well together, then w afh and bathe the eye well there- 

 with, and lay round about it with your fplatter this charge re- 

 Eyc a ftringent. Take Maltick, Bolearmoniack, Sanguis Draconis, 

 ch;ii-ge. the white of a new laid egg, and white wine vineger of the. 

 ilrongeft, beat firft the hard-fimples to a very fine powder, and . 

 then fearfe them, and theymuft be beaten feverally, then mix 

 them altogether with the white of the egg, and the vineger fo 

 well wrought, as that the medicine come to a thick Ointment, 

 and with this charge the forance round about theeye^ and this 

 will keep offthe himonr^zxid. when that you find that the eye. 

 doth begin toamend, then waOi and bathe the ^^e twice or thrice, 

 a day, or oftner, with cold Fountain or Well water, fo frcfh 

 as it is taken or drawn out of the Well or Fountain, and if af- 

 ter youfhall perceive that there doth grow ^ifilm or skin over 

 the eye^ then take it away by blowing or putting the powder 

 of Caraphire, or Sal Armoniacnm^ or white Sugar-Candy in fine 

 powder, accordingas I have before prefcribed you. "^^"^ This is 

 a moft fovereign Receipt : Alfo if your Horfe in his e-^e have got- 

 ten a ftripe. Take of frefli butter wherein never came fait, the 

 quantity of a Walnut, and put it into his^^r on that fide, 

 where the flripeis, and it will help him. 



Another, 

 Take Lentels or gray peafe, and champ or chew them in your 

 mouthy and then whilft they be in your mouth, blow and breathe 

 into your herfes eye, but not any of thePeale by any means j do 

 this every day often, and a little after waQi the fore eye with cold 

 fountain water, till it be whole. "^^f^But yet I will teach yoa 

 another Receipt which will take off a Pin and Web;Film, thick- 

 nefs, or any other foulnefs which may beintheeyewhatfoevert 

 whereof I have had great experience, and have done many rare 

 cure^ in this kind, viz, , 



. Take 



