111rAnother for red sore Eyes, Lady Hubert/
Take lapis, calaminaris, burne it red hott in a cleare Fyer, and quench
it in white wine, nine times, makinge it red hott every time, then
beat the stone to powder, and searce it through a fine searcer, or a peece
5of lawne, then to halfe a pinte of this rosewater, take as much of this
pouder as will lye vpon three six pences,and when you are to vse it
shake the glasse well, wherein it is, and drop of it into your Eyes, as
often as you please, and if it be for a hott rhume, quench the stone
in white rosowater, and if for a cold rhume then quench it in white
10wine./.
A most excellent, and well approved Medicine
for sore Eyes, with the vses of it./
Take Hoggs geease very new three Ounces, wash it well in red rosewaters
fix howers together, then wash it as longe in the best white wine, that
15can be gotten, wherein two Ounces of the stone calaminaris beinge red
hott, hath beebe seauen times quenched, to this thus peepared, take of tutia
well prepared and finely pollisher,one Ounce, of the stone hamatites
well washed and prepared, two scruples, of Aloes washed and finely powdered
twelue graines, of pearle in fine powder fower graines, of the stone calaminaris
20formerly quenched in white wine, beinge beaten into fine powder two
ounces, mixe all those together in a little red Fennell water, and so
make it vp into an Oyntment, and Keepe it for your vse in a tin pott./
The Aloes must be washed and difsolued in red Fermell water, and so
dryed in the sun vntill the water be dryed vp, and when it is hard
25dryed, beat it into fine powder./
The vse of this Ountment./
Soile the end of your finger in the Oyntment, and anoynte the vpper
lid of the Eye, vnder the Eyebrough, if you please you may putt a little
into the corner of your Eye./ This must be vsed at night when you goe
30to bed, or at any other timo./ when you please./
An Excellent water for sore Eyes./.
Take halfe a pinte of the best white wine, and as much as the quantitye
of a wallnutt of lapis calanimaris, take the stone and make it red hott in
the Fyer, then quench it in the white wine, doe this six, or seauen times,
35then take halfe the stone, and beate it into fine powder, powre the white
wine cleare from the droggs, that will remaine in the bottom, and mixe
both the powder and the wine together, and whom they well stirred
straine it through a fine cloath, and so putt it vp into a glasse with /the\