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Show Book 11], 0/1/96; iii/M25; of the Cornea, and their Cures. Book III. W Mortar, may be poured a {ufficient quantity of the defiillid gageiilot Eye. briOht and Roles; and after a due infufion they may 6 cl] ed ina Leanden Alembick, and afterward the Cancred Eye may be oftcn walhed r' '- C H A P. XIII. ‘ ' t r. 7_~ in "lrlljegrlhsed/Egrviere giveth an account of Mauritim Corr-virtue, (0%"??Lib. l. Hippocratde morbir Mulierunt. ‘Rcfert zllc Hzfloram ohm cuyuf. Office @iflazg/Z's of the UVea, and their Cureri 8 (fig fl," dam firming, cui Iota part dextmfaclez Cantro, eoque M chrfo, diutiflime, qme mm wariir auxiliu, a. lerde‘ ~Italn,‘ Ga 11;. ermamcu, Aving dilbourfed the Difaffeéfion of the Admin: and Cornea, the two upper Coats of the Eye, it follows in order, that we {hould treat of Hifpanio', peritir ufa (flit, tandem eulgzm but barbttorlfbrzs reme w [Mame/l. @ullor Gallinateos in part/e: rennet lam: comidebat, qua/5 fepiufcule tommutzmdo : interdiu admombat parti aflefi'a'. 51' , (9v adbuc te idM. Alii admorvent tamer pullorum columhimrnm . . . . [e IMhumbly conciive that the flefh of Chickens and Prdgeonsberng applied warm, and often changed, may draw out the mahgmty ol the Cancrous humor, or at leafi give cafe in great pains frequently attending Cancers, and efpecially thofe of the Eyes, asbeing the molt tender parts, endued With mall: acute fenfe. the Dil‘eafes of the third Coat, the Mom, which is liable to an undue poll- tion, called by the Greek! «Mm, by the Latim, Protidcmia, which is an unnatural fituation of this Tunicle made by the Rupture of the Cornea, either by a Wound, or by an Ulcer. Egineta hath made four kinds of Procidence belonging to the Lit/ext, ac. 'I‘Ihefevctal" cording to its greater or lefs dimenfions; if a finall part only be diflocated, iii-1:3; 5,; he calleth it (Avlzm'admv, as it refembleth in Figure the Head of a Fly; and if W" a greater portion of it be difTeated, he calleth it met/Mina, as beinglike the Stone of a Grape, and if the greateft part of it be difplaced, it is called piin, from the Figure of an Apple; and when the Mom hath contracted a callous nature, it is named Mt, Claw/m". This Difeale is difiinguifhed from thofe of the Cornea,.as a manifeft feparation of the 1/17/24 from the Car{tea may be difcerned, whereas in Nature thcfe Tunicles are nearly conJoyned. As to the Cuteof the Diflocation or Prociclence of the u'vca, it donoteth Aflringent Medicines (mixed with Specificks relating to the Eye) to reduce the um, if poflible, into its proper fituation, and in this cafe Medicines propounded in the Rupture of the Camera, are very proper. 9 All the other Tunicles, are whole Segments, relating to their furtaces, bun the Lima being perforated in the middle, doth fomewhat refemble a Ring, as the hole isa little Circle through which the refemblances of things, clothed with beams of Light, are received into the body of the Eye, and pals through the various Humors to make appulfes upon the Retina in order to its Vifion. .The Pupil of the Eye appeareth greater or lefs , as the little (Luci: iS expanded or contraéted , according to the various polition or t «lea. ' If the Pupil of the Eye be too much enlarged, it is called by Them teat Perfu- the Greeks, MuJ‘glrw‘N, and teceivet‘h this denomination, d Vifiom dehdi E"f"'"-‘"m,‘3 Cl?" obflura, by realon the vifible lEmblances of things grow faint and ZJjéfyiiik‘ Weak as being overpowred with the more radiant beams of Light, and therefore Nature hath made the inner Chambers of the Eye homeWhat dark, that the fpecies of vifible Objects arayed with moderate light, mightbe the better dilEerned, and thereforebath given power to the u?" to contract the Pupil of the Eye, which is performed by the Fibnls of the Ciliary ProcetTes, to [but out the over-bright Rays of Light, Whlch ENC Would confound the more weak reprefentations of vifible Obleéts, which happens in the too great and unnatural dilatation of the Forarnen of the "ma; which hath many caufes, and is fometimes produced by an ill conformation from the birth, but mofi commonly advenUnions, and is caulEd (as divers Phyficians will have it) from 3 W‘fionv of the "7"" a coming from a dry diRemper derived from long \Vatch- rngs, |