104rA good safe Medicine for a bruised, or bloodshotten
Eye; my Mother./
Take the white of an Egge, and putt to it so much Allome in very fine
Powder, as an Hazell nutt, and so beate them together, till it come to be
5like a tender possett curd, and when you goe to bedd lay that crud all
ouer your Eye, and tye it on with a cloath, and this done two, or three
nights, with gods blessinge will vndoubtedly helpe it./
How to make a water, to take a pearle, or slinn,
Off the Eyes, my Mother./
10Take three quartes, of Faire water, and sett it on the Fyer, and when
It boyles putt it into an earthen pott, or pan, then putt the weighte
of a French Browne in Gould, of Mercury Sublimate into tho hott
Water, and go lett it stand while it be Cold, then putt it vp into a
Glasse, and keepe it, this water will take a pearle, off the Eyes, butt if it
15Be to take a slinn off, and to cleare the eyes, then putt a pinte of the
Same water more, to the same quantitye of the Mercury./
The way how to vse this water, my Mother./
Take a little off it in a glasse, or any thinge made of earth, butt you
must not putt it, either into silver, or pewter, then wett a little ragy
20in the water, and the Eye, beinge shutt, wett the Eye lidds, and vnderneath
the Eyes, and the temples, and so lett it drye in, you must doe it in
the morninge when you awake, and at night, when you goe to bedd,
and what soever you make tho water in, or putt any off it in, it must
be soe no othor vse, and you must alwaies vse this water cold, for it
25it be warme it will doe no good./
Another good Medicime, to take a slinn, or pearle,
or pinn, and webb, out off the Eye./
Take the Juice of celondine, and putt to it, if it be a quarter of a spoone
= full, of the juice, not aboue three, or Fower dropps, of breast Mille, and
30morninge, and eueninge, drop some three dropps at a time in the Eye,
And vse it so long, as you see cause./
Another very safe Medicine for Sore Eyes, my Mother./
Take an Egge, and when it is hard roasted, cutt it through the middle, as hott
as it cometh from tho Fyor, then take out the yolke, and putt into that place, as
35much suger candy, beaten, and searced, as a Hazell nutt, and halfe so much Allom
made as Fine, then putt the egge together, and hold it all, in a single cloath
Like a ball, and so with your fingers nippe it, shell, and all, as small as you can, and
So wringe it into a glasse, and when it is cold, dropp it into your Eye,morninge
and eueninge./