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Show ‘7 (yr/m Difl'a e; of the optick New", and in Care. £30k Ill. 97.8 . w .agf-v-fflf-fl-xx compretibd, and other times obftruéted, hmdtmg the progrefs of the ani. mal Liquor and Spirits, into the Nerves. The rure of a 6:11:13":M. Book III. 929 This inequality may happen when the optick Nerves (as the Retina "an"; is their medullary fubfiance dilated) are too much relaxed by the moiflurepr . _ The Cure of this Difeale is performed by Purging Medicmes, difcharging the grol‘s Humors fetled about the beginning of the Nervous Fibrils, after. ward in Plethorick Bodies, Bleeding may be preferibed,which PTOVflh Often very elii'éttial in the removal of a Gutta Serena. Apozemes alfo made of the Flowers of Betony, Rofemary, Sage, Lavender, Lime, Lilly of the Valley, mixed with the Leaves of Eye-bright, Salem. dried by heat. The Denfity of this Coat may much incommode Vilion, which may pro- this Dukafe The De an; of this Coat. seed from drops of grofs Liquor, difiilling out of the extremity of the ca. rotide Arteries, into the fubfiance of the Retina. dine the great, Mountain-Sage; and after the Decoétion is made, Mille- pedes may be infufed, which do open the obliruétion of the optick Nerves, and clear up the animal Spirits, and refine the grofs nervous Liquor. C H A P; XVII. Allo Friéiion of the outward parts, may be beneficial to thin the Blood, and make good its circulation, to hinder its f'tagnancy in the Cortex, about the Origens of the Nerves; and to this end Cupping-Glades may be apply. 0f in? Ear; ed to the Back, Shoulders and Neck. Blil‘tering Plaif'ters may be ufed between the Shoulders, and to the bin. det part, and [ides of the Neck, to draw oh" the Humots from fetling in the ambient parts ot‘the Brain, where the extremities of the nervous Fibrils are feared. time (with your leave) is to entertain you with a fine fight of the neigh- Cauticks applied to the hinder part of the Neck, do often divert the offenfive Matter of the Outta Serena from the Head; or in their place a Selateum may be adminifired, which is of great ufe in this Difeafe. Diet-drinks made ofSarza-parilla, Cuaicum, Sadafras, mixed with [pecificks for the Eyes, often prove very advantageous, as they provoke Sweat, and difcharge ill Humors, ofl‘enliveto the Nerves, animal Spirits and Liquor. , Elcéluaries made of Conferve of Rofes, Flowers of Berony, Lime, Lilly of the Valley, Condite Mirabolam, Powder of Eyebright, Salendine the gem, Vcrvain, and that of Millepedes, mixed and made up with Syrup bouring parts, the Ears, and its rare Compage, as the infiruments of Hear-‘ 1n . ol Lillie-Flowers, or Lillys of the Valley ., may be taken three times a day, drinking alter it a draught ofa cephaicl; Apozeme. AThe Retina, or Retiiorm Tunicle is near akin to the optick Nerves, as being a fine hilme made of numerous optick Filaments, curioufly {pun and interwoven, lo that their Coat may be juflly flyled an expanfion of the OPtick Nerves. This curious Membrane is the chief Organ of Sight, ( to which all the Coats, Humors, and other parts of the Eye are minifierial) as the Vifiblc obytéts make their ultimate Appulfes upon it, which perfeé'ts and determines the Sight. (‘ This 'Tunicichlmffh a pfiguliar Subl'tance Figure, Situation, Veflels, and .onnexion, Wit t enei either leflened or abolilhgd. ourin r ' ‘ gThe Eyes are feared as Two Watchmen in an eminent Ptation of the The that of the Eat. highel‘t Apartiment, to guard us from ill accidents, and entertain us with pleafant Objects, in order to our fupport and happinefs; and on each fide of the Eyes are placed the infiruments of Hearing (to cultivate us with Wifdom and Knowledge) that they may be readily perceptive of Sounds conveyed by the orbicular motion of the Air, naturally tending upward. The All-wife Agent hath made Two Ears (that one being rendred ufelefs by fome difeafe or ill accident, the other may perform its Office) affix: ed to each fide of the 0: 'Petrofitm, as molt appolite for the reception of ' Sounds. To corroborate the Brain and Eyes after other Medicines have been premifed, Ccphalick Powders may be fprinkled upon the Hair; as alfo Fumes of the fame vature may be received into the l‘lvsfirils, and Caps made of Cephalicks and Spices may be very urefit! in a Outta Serena. The wrinkles of the Raina. Aving Treated of the rare Structure of the Eyes, as the Organ of Vifion, mape up of Mufcles, Coats and Humors; my defign at this " i is g P3 t5, Which being Vltlath the Sight Each Ear is framed of Two parts, the one outward, which may be difcerned by the Eye, and the other more inward is concealed, as having its allodgment in the Caverns of the 0: @etrofum. The external part of the Ear being finely expanded, is not the chief Ora' gain of Hearing, but only auxiliary to it, as receptive of, and contraaing the Air, the vehicle of founds, to make fironger Appulfes upon the Mem'brane of the Empamtm. A The whole outward Ear being called by the Antients Aurimla, confiflteth 0f divers parts and names, the thinner, and more large and hard Region, The Ear conhllcth ofTwo Parts. called Pimm, or Ala, and. the more thick and {off is fiyled Lobm Amie. The Timur being the more thin and large expanfion of the outward Ear, Plan Anti»: rule. is for the molt part Cartilaginous, clothed withOnt‘ and within with the Ca; tifula and Cam, and a fine Membrane, interwoven with nervous and carnous Fibrils of a fine Mufcle, inferted into the outward Region and hinder part of the Auricle. , , Fll‘fii‘its finoothnels (which its mucous Matter makes) may be fpoiled, 0 that It may grow unequal and wrinkled, as being contrafied, {0 that it is fth more thin and foft, as it approacheth nearer to the Outward verge of the prominent in fome parts, and deprefied in others; whence the vifible Images are darkly and confufedly reprefented. Auricle, and is formed after a kind of orbicular Figure about the entrance 9f the auditory pafiage, which is much enlarged by the outward Auricular This ExPétnt'ion, and in Brutes ( as Learned Caflizriru hath obferVed) it is framed This 0f many circles tied together by a common mera‘neev The Cartilage is more unequally thick and hard in its middle, and grow- The Cartilage of the Ear. |
