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A thatfall into the eyes, arerepreffed and allayed with a cataplafme of tender cheefe made of goats 
milke foked in hot water, and fo laidtoo:and if there be any tumor or {welling rifen by occafion 
of fuch a flux, it would bee applied with honey: and both of them, as well with {welling as with- 
out, ought to be fomented with warme whey. Buc fay the eyes bee enflamed and bleered onely, 
without any * extraordinarie moifture appearing in them, the little mufcles lying within the * Sexi. 
Joines of a {wine, rofted and afterwards punned to acataplafme, and fo applied, doe quite rid 
away the fame bleerednefle. Lt is commonly faid, that goats be never troubled with bleered eies, 
nor yet roe-bicks or does, by reafon of certaine hearbs which they feed upon :and for that their 
fight is as good by night asday, therefore certaine pills bee ordained for the infirmities of the 
eyes, made of theirdung, enwrapped within wax, for to bee fwallowed at the chaungeof the 
B moone, Many therebe who are of opinion,that fuch as be dim-fighted and fee little or nothing 
toward night (whome the Greeks call * Nyctalopes) are cured with goats bloud, efpecially the *nyeetopes,are 
male: alfo with the liver of agoat fodden in fome aufteréor hard wine. Some give direction, they alfo czl- 
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to annoint the eyes all over with the gravie or dripping of the faid liver rofted,or els withthe gall poi. in ihe 
of a goat, andtofeed of the faid feth; withthis regard, That whiles the fameis afeething, thé night than by 
eyes may receive the vapour and fteeme thereof, And of this opinion they be, that the faid me- ener ee 
dicine will doe the better, ifthe goat bee ofa bright ruddie colour. Moreover, they would have importeth. 
thé eyes of tiie patient to be fomented with the vapour and fume that rifeth from the decoction 
of the liver whiles it boileth: but others there be, that prefcribe totake the finoake thereof as it 
rofteth or frieth. As for goats gall, there bee that ufe it many waies’ prepared; fome with honey, 
C againftthefumofities that trouble and dim the eye-fight: others, with a third part of white Blle- 
_ bore,forthe pin and web : others againe with wine, againtt cicatrices, pearls, obfeuritic of fight, 
filmes,and {pots. But for the eye-lids, after the haire which pricked and offended the eye is pul- 
led out, they applie it with the juice of beets, fuffering the faidliniment to drie upon the eye- 
lids. If anytunicles of the eye bee broken, they take womans milke to apply unto it. In fur, for 
all infirmities of the eyes whatfoever, they hold a goats gall which is old and hath been long 
kept, to be more foveraigne and effectuall in operation than any othér . Neither doe they re- 
_ je& the dung of this beaft, butrepute a liniment made of itandhoney, tobe as good for wate- 
ri¢ eyes, as the marowfor the paine thereof: likewife the lungs ofan hare. And verely the gall of 
an hare (as it is commonly reported) incorporat with cuit or hony,and fo applied helpeth thofe 
D thatbee dim-fighted. Furthermore they ordaine, torub and annoint the eyes againft their in- 
flammation and bleeredneffe, either nih woolves greace, or elfe with {wines marrow, Andno 
marveile, for they fay, That whofoever ufe to carrie about them in a bracelet a foxes tongues 
fhall never be troubled with foreeyes, —- 7 
Forthe paine and infirmities incident tothe eares, there is not a better nor more excellent 
thiog than the urine of'a wild bore faved andkept in a glaffe:the gall likewife of a wild bore or 
ow, asalfo of a boeute,mixed with Cicinie oile and oile Rofat, in equal quantitie, isa fingular 
-temedie: but efpecially bulls gall, dropped into the ears warme with the juice of Porret; or elfe ” 
- with honey, io cafe rey bee impoftuniat within and runne with water, The fame alone by it felfe 
_ warmed in the rind of apomegranat, isexcellent ro rake away the ranke and {trong favour of 
E the ears: andif any parewithin bee broken, the faid gall inftilled with womans milke, healeth it 
eifeGually, Some therebe, wlio ordainethe earstobe well wathed with ic fo prepared, for to re- 
miedie the difficuleie and hardnefle of hearing; others ufe to pur nto the cars wool], wathed be- 
forein hore water, and enclofe therewith a peece of a ferpents flough, with vinegre:butif the 
deaienefie bee the greater, they infufe the faid gall into the ears, tempered with myrrhe and rue, 
and fomade liot all together in the pill of a pomegtanat. Fatlardalfo is good for this purpofe: 
arid the greene dung of an affe inftilled with oile rofat; provided alwaies, that all thefe medicines 
be warme when they bee dropped into the ears. But the fome that a horfe-doth froth, is beter 
than allthefe: or the afhes of horfe dung frefh made and burned, mixed with oile of rofes. In this 
cafe likewife are commended boeufe fewet, goofe greace, and frefh butyr. The urine of agoat * 
'F or bull, yea and {tale chamber-lie which Fullers ufe,made hote, and the vapour thereof recei- 
ved into the eare, at the narrow mouth or necke of abottle, cureth the deafeneffe thereof. Some 
put thereto a third part of vinegre, anda quantitie of the piffe of acalfe which is yet a fuckling 
and never tafted graffe : yeaand others there be, which put thereto the dung mixed with the gall 
of the faid calfe, {he skin or flough alfo which {nakes catt off, is very good to be applied unto the 
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