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Show The Qif-czzfcs of the Adnata, and their Carer. which I have feen perform'd with good fuccefs. Book III, A temporal Artery may be alfo Opened without the leali danger ( when the inflammation of the Eye is attended with intolerable pain. of the l-lead) which I have adviled with great advantage to my Patients in'extremity- . . Gentle Purgatives may be fafely adVIfcd, mixed with Eye-bright, Fallen. dine the Great, Vet-vain, (ave- and afterward Cupping-glaiics may be applied to the Back, Shoulders, and Neck; and Blilltel‘ing Plail'cers between the Shoulders, and to the Neck, and under the Ears, have proved very beneficial in thiseafe. Inward Medicines made of Cooling Ingredients, and temperate Speci. ' _ licks, may be fafely admiiiil'teted. After Bleeding and Purging, Topicks may be ufed, in which a care inuii be had, that repelling Medicines be not applied to the dilalieficd parts, which do inerallate the thin Humors, and fo detaining them, do inereafe the pain and inflammation. Aliringents made of Bole-Armem'tk, Dragons Blood, MLIllle‘ and Red Rofes, may be mixed with the White of an Egg, and Red Rofe Vineger, and applied to the Forehead, by which the Humor HOWlIlg toward the Eyes, . may be repelled. Among Anodynes in violent pains, accompanying the. inflammation of the Eyes, Milk , efpecially that of a Woman, may be inyeéted gently into the aggrieved part. The White of an Egg beaten into a thin Watry liquor, is highly commended by great Galen, as alleviating pain, and gently checking the flux of llumors. The Pulp of a roaftcd Apple is a good Anodyne in this cafe, and Muci- lages of the Seeds of Pfyllinm and miinces extracted in Rofe "later, which mull be often renewed, lei'. being long made they contraét a Riurenefs, and difeoinpofe the inflamed Eyes. In the beginning of the Difeafe a Cataplafm may be made ofthe Pulp ofa i'ol'ted Apple, of the Seeds of rPffllium and Quinces exti‘aéted in Rofe Water, and with a little of the White of an Egg, beaten into Water, and of "Humans hdilk, and beingmixed, maybe applied to the Eyes. The \Vhite of an Egg ( beingr beaten up with a little Alome in a Leaden Difli, to the confifience of an Ointment) may prove very advantageous in this cafe, if it be applied to the Eye but an hour or theteabouts, and then removed, lei} by its long Pray it fliould ovetmueh thicken the Hhmors in the Eyes, and heighten the Difeafe. iii the iiiereale of the Difeafe gentle Difcutients may be mingled with rePCllllig hiedicincs, as defiilled Water of Eye-bright, Fennel, Salendine the Great, mixed with the Mucilages of l ine-feed exttaéied in Rofe Water, {0 which may be added upon occalion, the Trocbifti Albz' 1 afirfine opio, and Prepared Ttitty; and Sarcocol nourilhed with Milk, when the Difeafe cometh toward :1 hight: This laft Ingredient mufi be often macerated in Milk, and feveral times changed,elfe it groweth foute and fpoileth the vertuf of the Medicine. Qéféjrfttryz in his @harmawpeiiz, giveth a great Charaéter of Cram: MetalIrrimz minted in Eye-bright or Fennel "farm, which is powerful in this cafe; and doth not difcompofe the Eye with any fliai‘pnefs. AVVater may be prepared with Calcined Lead, or Lytliarge, and with Book III. 0f t/ae Dflafiir of the Adnata, :ma't/Qcir Carer. In the Rate of the Difeafe the refolving Medicines [hould overpower the repelling! Fomentions made of Flowers ofChamatmel, Melilote, and Red Rofcs, Fatnnygrick-feed boiled in water and Ptrained (to which may be added a little white Wine) may be fetvieeable to the Eyes. Renowned Riviere givetha great Encomium of Oyl or Liquor (made up ' of burnt Linnen, fet on fire and quenched between two Pewter Diilies) of which a drop mixed with a Childs Spittle, may be put itito the Eye With 1 Feather. In the declination of the Difeafe water mixed with Red wine, proveth very ufeful, as alfo a Medicine made of Aloes, Prepared Tutty, SugarCandy, infufed in Rofe water and white Wine, and expofed to the Sun for 40 days, of which a few drops may be inllilled into the Eye. The Adflam is incident to another Difeafe called by the Lafiflé‘f, ufiguit Myth 0:2"; Ont/i, and by the Greelq, wissu‘wv, from the refemblance it hath with a lVlan's Nail, or the wing of a finall Bird; and fometimes it is like the trieufpidal head of an Arrow, f0 that it fometimes received the appellative of an Arrow. \ . It is defcribed by Celfm and other Phyficians, to be a fibrous or nervous Membrane, arifing from the greater or inner Angle of the Eye, and rarely fromthelefs or ontward; This Excrefcence is often the produét of an inve- Thmnrccf ‘ thevnguir terate Opthalmy, 0r proceedeth from the little Puf'tles or Small Pox, or from Oculi. fome firoke or contufion of the Eye, or from excrementitious Humors 0t ferous parts of the Blood ( deliilling out of the terminations of the Carotide Arteries inferted into the furface of the white of the Eye) which are conereted into a thin membranous fubftance (affixed to the Adfldla) and is enduttd with feveral Figures , whereupon it obtaineth variety of denominations. Gentle purging Medicines, mixed with Specificks, are very good and are ihcrgirfi-i)‘ [it all 1" often to be repeated ; Blil'tering Plaifiers, and a 8mm in the Neck, often cafe. prove very ufeful in this cafe. In reference to this ail, as an Excrefcence, Detergent and Corrolive Medicines are beneficial, made of Sugar-Candy, infufed in Eye-bright or Fennel water, 'to which may be added a little Nitte, or white Vitriol, or burnt Harts-Horn ; Egg-{hells lieeped in White Wine Vinegar, and afterward being dried and finely powdered, may be applied to the Eyes, as alfo Alome, Cerufs, or Camphor infufed in Eye-water, may be ufed to take away this Exerefcenee. A Difeafe near akin to a. Wham, is called by the Latina, 'Pamtm, a Tunicle or Exerefcence refembling fine Cloth, or a Contextute covering the Adnata and fometimes the Cornea, made up of many Vellels filled with Ragnated Blood, which being difcharged through the terminations of the Ar- teries, is lodged fometime's between the Vellels of the Admzta, and (Eemeth to be like a kind of Cloth-work, which proceedeth from the Reticular Plexes of the Arteries filled with Blood, whereupon the numerous Capillaries be- ing dlfiended do approach each other, and [Farm to make a kind of Tunicle invelting the Admire, and fometimes the Cornea, whence the Sight is lellened, or wholly taken away. . Bleeding after Purgatives have been premifed, may be fafely advifed in this Difeafe, p‘ro‘e'ieeding from fiagnated Blood ,- to make good its circulation. lVlinion Red Lead, infufed in White Wine Vineger, which being applied to lthe Eye, doth Worka great Cure in a lhort time, as Learned Riv/m will iaveit. lii B n i And |
