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orm or ladder; for otherwise such is the strength of the medicine, that, 

 will not be able to endure it. Which is such a present remedy, that in 

 ee days it will fully restore the sight, and take away every blemish of 



eye. The gall of a vulture mingled with the juice of horehound^ (twice 

 much in weight as the gall is) and two parts of honey cures the suf- 

 ion of the eyes. Gal. in Euporist. Otherwhere, he mingles one part 

 the gall of the Sea Tortoise, and four times as much honey and anoints 



eyes with it. Serenus prescribes such a receipt to cause one to be 

 ck sighted. 



Jl ingle Hyblean honey with the gall 



Of Goats, 'tis good to make one see withal. 



Give infants butter and honey, for nothing is better for their breeding 

 th, and for sore mouths. Galen bids us rub their gums with nothing 

 ; honey. For it wonderfully helps to their breeding, of teeth, preserving, 

 ansing and beautifying of them. Also against the pain of the jaws. If 

 h Arabian honey you join field-poppy, it cures it. And sometimes pure 

 ley is mingled with clear water, and this, as Serenus and Pliny testify, 

 ;h notably cure the dryness of the tongue in fevers, the quinsy, and the 

 eases of the uvula, throat, jaws, or the tonsils; against difficulty of 

 athings, and to cause one to expectorate, either by itself or mingled 

 h other things is highly commended by Hippocrates. And for the con- 

 sion of the laps of the lungs (which used to be a deadly disease), the 

 nking of cold water, and of that wherein a honeycomb is. steeped is very 

 ;ctual. Also, if the stomach be not hot, choleric, bitter, nauseating or 

 erish, it makes it strong and vigorous, and nourisheth it much, not suf- 

 ing milk to curdle in it: it cleanseth the reins, boiled with water and 

 :ter it is good against the stone. — Avicenna. It easeth the pain of the 

 een, but it must be outwardly applied with the dead bees; for taken in- 

 rdly it hurts both the liver and the spleen, saith Galen. When it is raw 

 ooseneth the belly, but boiled with the bees, or with new cheese it binds 



belly so much, that Galen holds it to be a secret against the Dysentery, 

 I colic passions: so does Celsus, also Pliny. Hippocrates mingled honey 

 h all medicaments that were to soften the belly. Honey mingled with 

 in, is a cure for the qold testicles, as Pliny saith, who also affirms that 



ashes of ox leather mixed with honey, cures all running sores and 

 ches. Niter with honey and cow's milk cures ulcers of the face; and 



froth of honey with oil of walnuts, amends the burning of the skin; 

 s excellent for old people and such as have cold stomachs; and being 

 led, it discusses wind, and moves urine mightily. — Galen. Hollerius 

 korieth honey amongst diaphoretics, because it openeth and maketh 



passages clear: Galen placeth it amongst diuretics. It layeth down its 

 imony by being mingled with water, or being boiled; and therefore 

 len prescribes boiled honey, to close up ulcers that are hollow. Salt 

 h meaf and honey takes away the pain of a joint that is dislocated, 

 cusses the swellings, and makes it more apt to be reduced. I might 

 e set down the plaster of Aetius and Aegineta called Diamelleum, the 

 psimel of Arden, and all syrups that were anciently made of honey, 

 whose place the Neotericks have put sugar, but I know not by what 

 son. For if honey of Athens, or some as good, be at hand, and doth 

 : want its due preparation, do not use sugar that is earthy, reedy and so 

 I of dregs, not comparable either for use, original, or any way whatso- 

 ■r with this heavenly dew honey. 



Hydromel of Galen. — Take sweet, pure clean fountain water, 8 pounds, 

 best honey i pound, boil them at a soft fire in an earthen vessel, take 

 the skin ofttimes, and boil it to its thickness, [f it must be drunk 

 ;sently, .it must be made thin as water, if it just be set up to keep, boil 

 longer till it be thick, as a julep; if it be kept long it pierceth deeper 

 o the parts far off, and is sooner converted into choler. Also boiling 

 [uires to it many more faculties; for being little boiled, it inflates more, 



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