Chap. 38.] EEMEDTES FOB DISEASES OF THE EYES. 41 1 
rius of antimony are then added, and the mixture is applied 
with wool-grease. For the same purpose, also, the young ones 
of a mouse are beaten up, in old wine, to the consistency of the 
strengthening preparations known as " acopa."^® When eye- 
lashes are plucked out that are productive of incon venience, they 
are prevented from growing again by using a hedge-hog's gall ; 
the liquid portion, also, of a spotted lizard's eggs ; the ashes^ 
of a burnt salamander ; the gall of a green lizard, mixed with 
white wine, and left to thicken to the consistency of honey in 
a copper vessel in the sun ; the ashes of a swallow's young, 
mixed with the milky juice of tithymalos or else the slime 
of snails. 
CHAP. 38. BEMEDIES FOR DISEASES OF THE EYES. 
According to what the magicians say, glaucoma^ may be 
cured by using the brains of a puppy seven days old ; the probe 
being inserted in the right side [of the eye], if it is the right 
eye that is being operated on, and in the left side, if it is the 
left. The fresh gall, too, of the asio^^ is used, a bird belonging 
to the owlet tribe, with feathers standing erect like ears. 
Apollonius of Pitanae used to prefer dog's gall, in combina- 
tion with honey, to that of the hyaena, for the cure of cataract, 
as also of albugo. The heads and tails of mice, reduced to 
ashes and applied to the eyes, improve the sight, it is said ; a 
result which is ensured with even greater certainty by using the 
ashes of a dormouse or wild mouse, or else the brains or gall 
of an eagle. The ashes and fat of a field-mouse, beaten up 
with Attic honey and antimony, are remarkably useful for 
watery eyes — what this antimony^^ is, we shall have occasion 
to say when speaking of metals. 
Eor the cure of cataract, the ashes of a weasel are used, as 
also the brains of a lizard or swallow. Weasels, boiled and 
pounded, and so applied to the forehead, allay defluxions of the 
eyes, either used alone, or else with fine flour or with frankin- 
cense. Employed in a similar manner, they are very good for 
sun-stroke, or in other words, for injuries inflicted by the sun. 
It is a remarkably good plan, too, to burn these animals alive, 
and to use their ashes, with Cretan honey, as a liniment for 
»6 See c. 13 of this Book. 87 gee B. xxvi. c. 39. 
A disease of the crystalline humours of the eye. 
See B. X. c. 33. so Stibium." See B. xxxiii. c. 33. 
