of the Difeafes of the EYES. ni 



This will a6b as a flimnlus, and may 

 help to thin and rarefy the gummy juices, 

 and bring new fupplies of nourifliment 

 10 the perifhing eyes. 



This courle not fucceedlng, in order Mercuri- 

 more powerfully to open the vefTels of the ^Is recoru- 

 chryftalline humour (which in thefe cafes "^^"'^^v 

 is always found opake, and when the 

 catara6l is confirmed, intirely lofes its 

 tranfparency) and hinder as much as pofTi- 

 ble the forming of obftrudlions, mercurials 

 are chiefly to be depended on: thus give 

 every other day, for three or four morn- 

 ings, two drams of calomel, mixed up 

 with conferve of rofes •, and then purge otF 

 with the common ball. 



During thiscourfe particular care fhould The alte- 

 be taken of the horfe : after repeating this, natives 

 the alterative powders before- mentioned ^^^^^^^ 

 fhould be given, fo^r fome weeks or months, pended 

 if you expert any benefit from them ; on. 

 or they may be beat up into a ball with 

 live millepedes, and an ounce and a half 

 given every day : if thefe fhould not fuc- 

 ceed, and the horfe is a valuable one, 

 the turbith courfe, recommended in the , 

 chaper on alteratives, fcems to be the 

 maft promifing method left. But to 



horfes 



