* Pro Meconio: 
andyctin Dis 
ofcorides it is 
HE anaris, 
The five and twentieth Booke 
mixed with parched or fried barly meale, maketh a good cataplafine for to reprefle the rheume 
-paffech them all, and is a foveraigne medicine forall fuch imperfections. The root of Panaces G 
of waterie and weeping cies. And there isa fingular drinke commended for the ftaying of fuch 
humors, made of henbane feed one obolus, of Opium or the juice of poppieandwineasmuch: — 
Some put thereto the like quantitie of the juice of Gentian, which alfo they ufed to mingle with 
collyries and eye-falves (thar require fome fharpenefle and acrimonie) *in ftead of the torefaid 
Opium or poppie juice. Moreover,Euphorbium clarifieth the eye- fight, ifthere be an inunG@tion 
made therewith. For bleered eyes,it is good todrop the juice of Plantaine into them. As forthe 
thicke mifts that hinder the eye-fight, Ariftolochia doth difcufle and refolve them. Thehearbe — 
Iberis bound unto the forhead, togither with Cinquefoile, ftoppeth the fall of humors into the 
eyes,and cureth all other maladies incident unto them. Mullen or Lungwort islikewife a great 
defenfative againft the forefaid rheums which have taken acourfe to the cies and caufe them to 
’ water: fo doth Vervain, if itbe applied with oile rofat or vinegre. For the cataract or {uffufion of 
the cies, forthe pin and web which offend the eye-fight, the Trofches of Cyclamine beeing dif- 
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folvedand fo applied,are foveraigne.As for the juice of Peucedanum(thatis tofay,Har-ftrange) _ 
it is (as] {aid betore) a notable medicine for tocleare the fight, and rid. away the muddie mifts 
before the eies, if itbe laid too with Opium and oile rofat, Finally, Flea-wortftaiethandkeepeth 
up the flux of humors into the eyes, if che forehead be anointed with the mucilage thereof, _ 
Cuar. X11 
eg Of Pimpernell,named Anagallisand Corchoros, Of Mandragoras or Circeium.Of Hens- 
locke ,Creftmarine or Sampire, named in Greeke Crithmos agria.Of the hearbe Molybdaua, 
Of Fumiterre. Of Acorus or Galangale. Of Floure-dc-lis. Of Cotyledon or Venus navill. 
Of Sengreene,ind Purcellane, Of Groundfwell, of Epherscron, Of the TaXill and of Crow- 
Soot : sith the medicinable vertues of the {aid hearbs, appropriat to the difeafes of eyes,ears, 
noflbrils, teeth, and mouth. : | 
the male witha red floure, the female witha blew: neither of them. both be taller than the 
hand-breadth or afpan at moft: tender they be likewife invall parts : the leaves be very {mall, 
ye hearbe Pimpernell,fome call Anagallis,others Corchoros. Of it be found wo kinds$ | 
round,and lying upon the ground: they growas well the one as the other.in pardens and wateric _ 
places: that with the blew floure bloweth firlt: the juice of them both tempered with honey, dif- 
patcheth the mift and dimneffe of the cies, confumeth therednefle occafioned by a ftripe or 
braife, and taketh away the red {pots in the white of the eye sand fo much thefooner, if the hony 
be of the beft and made about Athens, wherewith the eyesbe annointed. The faid medicine 
likewife is good for to extend and dilate the tunicles that make the ball or apple of the eye: and 
therefore it isan ordinarie courfe that their eyes be annointed therewith beforehand, who areto 
be pricked with a needle for couching of a cataract. Thefe heartbs be fingular good likewife for 
the haw in horfes or beafts cies. The juice of Pimpernell conveighed up into the nofthrils,clean- 
feth the braine by the emundtorie of the nofe, fo that afterwards che Patient dee drawup wine 
into the nofthrils fora collution co wafh them. A dram ofthe faid juice drunke in wine,is a coun- 
trepoifon againftthe venome of fnakes, Butthis is ftrange, and I cannot chufe bur marveile of 
it, that fheepe thouldfo much hia: - and abhor the female Pimpernell as they doe: howbeit, in 
cafe they fhould miftake the one for the other becanfe they are folike (for in floure onely they 
differ) and taft the Pimpernell with the blew floure, prefently they have recourfe (by a naturall 
inftin@)to an hearbe for remedie called in Greeke Afyla,and by usin Latine Ferus oculus, [¢.the 
wild and cruell eye or Margellane.] Some there be, who fet downe certaine ceremonies and cit- 
cumftances to be obferved by them who are to dig or plucke up this hearbe, namely, That they » 
goe to this bufinefle before the funrifing, and faluce or bid good morrow toit three time,before 
they {peake any other word that morning;and then to take it up and caftit on high: which done, 
to prefle forth the juice of it. Thus ordered forfooth, they fay it is of better operation,and will do 
the deed furely. parti : ¢ 1 (wW 
Touching Euphorbium,what it is I have fufficiently {poken. The juice thereof isfingularfor 
bleered eyes, efpecially if they be {welled withall:likewife wormewood f{tamped and incorpoe 
rat with honey:as alfo the powder of Betoni¢e, There groweth many times a fiftulousulcer be- 
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