Chap. 47.] 
EEMEDIES FOE THE EYES. 
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to the eye-brows with oil, impart to them a black tint. By 
using goats' milk, they say, lice may be exterminated ; and the 
dung of those animals, with honey, is thought to be a cure for 
alopecy : the ashes, too, of the hoofs, mixed with pitch, prevent 
the hair from coming off. 
The ashes of a burnt hare, mixed with oil of myrtle, alle- 
viate head- ache, the patient drinking some water that has 
been left in the trough after an ox or ass has been drinking 
there. The male organs of a fox, worn as an amulet, are 
productive, if we choose to believe it, of a similar effect : the 
same, too, with the ashes of a burnt deer's horn, applied with 
vinegar, rose oil, or oil of iris. 
CHAP. 47. REMEDIES FOE AFFECTIONS OF THE EYES. 
For defluxions^^ of the eyes, beef suet, boiled with oil, is 
applied to the parts affected ; and for eruptions of those organs, 
ashes of burnt deer's horns are similarly employed, the tips of 
the horns being considered the, most effectual for the purpose. 
For the cure of cataract, it is reckoned a good plan to apply 
a wolf's excrements : the same substance, too, reduced to 
ashes, is used for the dispersion of films, in combination with 
Attic honey. Bear's gall, too, is similarly employed ; and for 
the cure of epinyctis, wild boar's lard, mixed with oil of 
roses, is thought to be very useful. An ass's hoof, reduced to 
ashes and applied with asses' milk, is used for the removal of 
marks in the eyes and indurations of the crystalline humours. 
Beef marrow, from the right fore leg, beaten up with soot, 
is employed for affections of the eyebrows, and for diseases 
of the eyelids and corners of the eyes. For the same purpose, 
also, a sort of calliblepharon^^ is prepared from soot, the best 
of all being that made from a wick of papyrus mixed with 
oil of sesame ; the soot being removed with a feather and 
caught in a new vessel prepared for the purpose. This mix- 
ture, too, is very efficacious for preventing superfluous eye- 
lashes from growing again when once pulled out. 
Bull's gall is made up into eye- salves^' with white of egg, 
35 If they are occasioned by irritation, Ajasson thinks that Pliny's re- 
medy may be of some utility. 
■■^^ A cosmetic for " beautifying the eye-brows." 
" CoUyria." 
