This Oil mitigates the Pains of the Ears and Hæmorrhoids, cures Scabs and Ring-Worms or Tetters; as also Chaps and Clefts in the Breast, Hands, Feet, and Fundament; and is made use of in Burns, &c.
C H A P. VI.
Of Collyrium's.
Collyrium's are Medicines prepar'd for the Diseases of the Eyes: The following is that of Lanfrancus.
Take a Pint of White-Wine, three Pints of Plantain-Water, three Pounds of Roses, two Drams of Orpiment, one Dram of Verdegrease; Myrrh and Aloes, of each two Scruples.
The Orpiment, Verdegrease, Myrrh, and Aloes are to be beaten to a fine Powder before they are intermixt with the Liquors. This Collyrium is not only good for the Eyes, but is also of use to make Injections into the Privy-Parts of Men and Women; but before the Injections are made, it ought to be sweeten'd with three or four times the quantity in weight of Rose, Plantain, or Morel-Water.
A dry Collyrium.
Take two Drams of Sugar-candy; prepar'd Tutty, Lizard's-Dung, of each one Dram; White Vitriol, Sucotrin Aloes, and Sal Saturni, of each half a Dram.