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for spiting of blood
past made of fine meale such as bookbinders use helpeth all such as doe spit blood being taken warm at once

for spiting by ruhme
Take ye best hony you can get & eat of it in ye morning or any tyme of ye day half a spoonfull at a tyme about 2 ounces in a day or more if you will in ye morning eat wth bread tosted or as you please

For wattering Eyes
The graines of wheat being dryed brown but not burnt ye powder therof mixed wth whit wine is good for wattering Eyes if it be laid theron or therto

for eyes yt have a speke in them it takes it away in a litle tyme
Take a peice of new holand or douglas or Cambrick & wrape it up as a peice of paper, & burn it on a pewter plat & take a drop of ye oyle of it & put it into ye eye morning & night & you will find it lessen ye speck in yt growes in ye sight & tak it away they yt told it said ye receipt was worth £100

To draw a ruhme from ye eyes
Take a bullet yt has been shot through a gun & beat it very thin & make holles in it & bind it to ye nape of ye neck & it will drain ye rume away

For sore eyes or red eyes wth ruhme
Take 2 or 3 spoonfulls of good clear [varges] & put to it of Lapis caleminarys & tutte of each a penith made into fine powder & put thes in a litle botell corked & shake it wn you use it & wet your eyes wth it goeing to bed on ye out side of ye eyes or ofener in a day this will keep half a year

Commended by do: Thurberwell an Oculist
Take of white rose watter & nants Brandy yt wch is right & comes from thence & mixe an equall quantity of each together & so wash your eyes wth it 2 or 3 tymes a day & it will clear your sight

an Aproved medicien for ye eyes
Take a little Lapis Caleminaris a quarter or half an ounce & put it into halfe a quarter of good Canary, shake it & let it stand while ye powder is setled then take a few dropes in a spoon wn tis clear & wth your finger dab it upon your eye lides & then twincle it into your eyes then shake your botle & let it setle before you use it againe
{one in year said he saw better since he had used it yn he had done in 10 years before}

An Extreordinary smoak for ye eyes
Take Lignum aloes, storax sasafras barke, amber, of each one drame, cut bettony half an ounce Rosmary flowers or Rosmary half a quarter of an ounce & as much Tobaca as Rosmary mixe wth it take this in a pipe when you are goeing to bed or as often as you please

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