Bad weather sometimes will effect the eyes, whence they will become raw and blood shot; which ought to be remedied in time, in order to prevent further inflammation. In this case make the following eye water.
No. XVI
Take Alum, One Scruple. Fine Sugar, Two Scruples. Spirit of Wine, and Camphor (A) Ten Drops. Fresh Water, Three Ounces.
Mix them in a vial, and hang it up so that it may settle; then pour off the clear into another vial, which keep for use.
Of this excellent eye-water, drop a few drops into the blood-shot eye, which in a little time, will bring it to health again.——If the eye lids are raw and inflamed, Turner’s Cerate, or what is yet better, No. [XI]. which prove very beneficial.—Should the inflammation be very heavy, apply the following poultice, from which you may expect great benefit.
No. XVII
Take Oatmeal, and Sugar powdered an equal quantity, and make it into a poultice with the yolk of eggs; upon which pour a few drops of the spirit of Camphor.
This kind of poultice you will find very cooling and agreeable to the eye, in order to assuage the pain; or take the following.
No. XVIII
Take the white of an egg upon a stone, or pewter plate, which rub with a piece of alum, till you get a fine white cream-like substance.