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able to its Title. The Compofition of the Stone is 

 this. 



Take of white Vitriol, two founds ; . - .. 



Roch A Hum, three Pounds ;fine Bole Ar- y^ X * ira l ' 

 menick^ half a Pound \ Litharge of Gold 

 and Silver , two Ounces. Reduce 'em all to pou- 

 der, and put 'em in a new glaz'd Earthen Pot, 

 With three quarts of Water. Boil them very gently 

 over a fmall Fire, without fmoak, fet equally round 

 the Pot, till the Water is quite wafted, and the 

 matter at the bottom perfectly dry. Then let 

 the matter cool, which will grow harder by long 

 keeping. Now to make an Infuflon of this Stone, 

 you mud put half an Ounce of it, to four Oun- 

 ces of Water in a glafs Bottle , it will diflblve in a 

 quarter of an hour, and make the Water as white 

 as Milk, when you (hake the Bottle. With this 

 Liquour, which will keep good twenty Days, you 

 muft wafh the fore Eye, Morning and Evening, 

 ihaking the Bottle every time. This may fervc 

 inftead of all other Medicines for Rheums, Rlows^ 

 Moon-Eyes, &c. and to my mind is much fafer by 

 way oi Jolution or infuflon, than by way of Psuder 

 blown into the Eye. 



If after the abatement of the heat, To 

 and flopping of the Rheum, there re- /$££&£ 

 mains a white Film upon the Eye, you Eye. 

 muft remove it, by lifting up the 

 Eye-lids, after the Eye has been wafh'd with Wine} 

 and ftroaking it gently with your Thumb, cover'd 

 with Wheat-Flower, This Method of ftroaking 

 with the Thumb, is better than blowing Pouders in 

 to the Eyes, with a leaden Pipe, becaufe the Horfc 

 cannot be fo much aware of the former, as of the 

 latter. Common-Silt) or Salt of Lead, beaten fine 

 and put into the Eye, are likewife proper to con- 

 fume a Film. Or you may put a little Salt into 

 your Mouth in the Morning faftinc?, and after 'tis 



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