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Show Boolt I ll. 0ftbe ‘Difczfler of the leea, and their Cures. Boohlli, ings, Fevers, and the like, other times this Difeafe followeth from a fourcc oi Humors mixed with the Blood and imported by the Carotide Arteries into the fubfiance of the Helm, and enlarging the Pupil of the Eye. CHAP. XIV. And other times the hole of the Met/ea is amplified by a quantity of the aqueous Humor extending it, and rendring the Pupil more large. The external caufes enlarging the Perforation of the "we, may be fomc l'trolte, or fall, or retention of the Breath, which is common to Womenin Travail, to promote the birth of the Child. If this Difeafe proceed from a dry dil'temper of the Tunicle, it doth denote 0f the fDi/ezz/tr oft/ac Warr} Humor; oft/ye Eye, and their Curer. H E warty humor of the Eye, when it recedes from its natural dif- Reliorative Medicines in a Heétick Fever, as alfo Emollient Medicines to be T pofition, is called by the Greeks, may", by the Latinas, Sufufio, The increal'e of the aque- applied to the Eye, as a Decociion made of Mallows, Marlhmallows, Eye- when the aqueous Liquor is encreafed in dimenfions, whereby the dilatation of the Pupil of the Eye is enlarged; or when it offends in quality as it is ous humor of called suffu- rendred more grofs, it is molt properly called Oculi fitflufio, proceeding from fin. bright, (9t. If the Pupil of the Eye be too much enlarged by Blood and Recremcm; fome Recrements of the Blood, defiilling out of the Terminations of the Carotide Arteries, and fpoiling the native purity of the warty humor ; Galen is of an opinion that this Difeafe may be derived from the condcnfation of it, but this is very rare, and is molt commonly produced from the afllux of other extending the Lima, Purging and Bleeding are very proper, and afterward Aflringent Medicines may be adminil'tred ( to corroborate the Eye and lcli fen the Foramen of the life/em made of Red Rofes dried, and Prepared Tut. The overmuch contraction of the Pupil. ty, Bole-Armenick, Dragons Blood, put in a Nodule, and infufed in Red Rofe water, of which being fqueefecl, fome drops may be infiilled into the affefied Eye. If the enlargement-of the Pupil proceed from a Broke, fall, or any other way of Contufion, Bleeding and Clylters may be advifed, and in cafe ofan Inflammation, fuch Medicines may be ufed which have been propoundtd heretofore in the Opthalmy, as alfo a Pultice maybe applied to the Eye made of Bean-Flower, Leaves of Plantain, Red Rofes dried, with a fulfieient quantity of Rofe-water, and afterward fome drops of Pidgeons Blood may be inl'tilled into the Eye, which is very good in all wounds and contufions of the Eyes. If the Pupil of the Eye be over-much contraéted, it cannot give a due reception to vilible Objeéts, which are befi feen in this call: in a well enlightnecl Medium. When the Perforation of the Eye is over-much leffened, the Sight is rendred dim, and only capable of feeing Objects, directly oppofite to the Eyeand thofe that are placed laterally, cannot be difcemed. If the Eye belong verfed in a place full of bright Rays of Light, it is for: ced to contract its Pupil to {hut our the radiant beams, which elfe would whol- ly confound the Sight. The unnatural contraction of the hole of the Mom, fometimes is derivcd from the birth, and Other time from too much moifiure imparted in the full- {tanceof the Helen, and from the defect of the warty Humor of the Eye? whereupon the um {inketh and its Perforation is lelfened. the Eye is i ‘ grofs Humors; the Suffulion of the Eye is vulgarly called Cataraé'fa, which A Camel}; is very improper, as the word denoteth, a violent and f'teep clefcent of Wa- of the Eye. ter, which cannot happen in the Eye. This Difeafe may truly be accounted, as relating to the watry humors of The caufirsuf the Eye, as it is difafl‘eéted by grofs Humors (rather than Vapours ) feared between the Cornea and Cril'talline humor. Some Phyficians afligne another caufe of a Suffulion, which is only fpurious, and floweth, as they conceive, from Vapours of the Stomach and other parts of the Body difafi'eaing the Eyes, which feem to reprefent the Phantafms of Fleas, Flies, and Spiders Webs, flying up and down in the Air ; but the molt common and true caufe of the Sul‘l‘ufion of the Eye, doth t ‘ y l ‘ not come from Vapours, but excrementitious parts of the Blood, oufing out of the Extremities of the Carotide Arteries (inferted into the Mom) into the watryliquor of the Eye, which groweth more and more difcom- pofed in its funétion, as the aqueous Humor is more and more incraflated by the recrements of the Blood. Sometimes this Difeafe may take its rife in fome part from a grols Liquor del'tilling out of the Termination of the Nerves (implanted into the lit/ea) into the warty liquor of the Eye, and is more rate, than the other caule, arifing out of the recrements of the Blood. This Difeafe admitteth many dilcriminations from the greater or lefs grofnefs of the ofl‘enfive Matter, or from the quantity of it, or from the part affetEted. In reference to the various degrees of thicknefs of the Recremerlts, the Sight is more or leg ofl‘énded; In the beginning of the Suffiifion gm Humor is thin and tranfparent, and giveth lcfs diflurbance to the ve. And in the increafe and {late of the Difeafe, the Recremcnts of the Blood grow more condenfed and opace;, f0 that the vifible Object cannot be duly or not at all received into the aqueous and Crifialline Humor of the Eye; And as the quantity of excrementitious Liquor Of the Eye is more or lefs lhaded, the Sight is leffened or abolilhed. Du In the faid Dil- cafe. |