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A20928	A discourse of the preseruation of the sight: of melancholike diseases; of rheumes, and of old age. Composed by M. Andreas Laurentius, ordinarie phisition to the King, and publike professor of phisicke in the Vniuersitie of Mompelier. Translated out of French into English, according to the last edition, by Richard Surphlet, practitioner in phisicke; Discours de la conservation de la veüe. English	Du Laurens, André, 1558-1609.; Surflet, Richard, fl. 1600-1616.	1599 (1599)	STC 7304; ESTC S110934	175,205	211

potabile conserues of Rubies and Emeralds Elixir vitae or the fained and fabulous fountaine of restored youth cannot withstand but that our heate must at length grow weake and feeble The opinion of the Egiptians condemned Galen derideth very well an Egyptian Sophister which had drawen commentaries of the immortalitie of the bodie If a man sayth he could when a thing is come to his perfection renew the same at that very instant and make the principles thereof in like maner new without doubt such a bodie would become immortall but this thing being impossible it must needes fall out that euery naturall agent must weaken it selfe and so of necessitie waxe old The men of Egypt Alexandria did beleeue that the natunall cause of olde age did come of the diminishing of the heart they said that the heart did growe till-fiftie yeeres the weight of two drams euery yeere and that after fiftie yeeres it waxed lesser and lesser till in the end it was growne to nothing but these are nothing but vaine imaginations and meere fooleries We haue caused many old men to be opened whose hearts haue been found as great and heauie as those of the yonger sort There is then but two inward causes of our old age the contrariety of the principles whereof we are composed and framed and the action or operation of our naturall heat which consisting in the consuming of his radicall moisture doth by little and little fall a drying and cooling of our bodies Outward causes of our old age that cannot be auoided There are other causes also of our dissolution which are outward and such as cannot be auoyded For seeing that our bodies are compounded of three substances which are subiect to waste the one wherof is subtile and of an airie nature the second liquide and the third solide it must needes be that we haue some outward thing for to repaire them otherwise our life would neuer last longer then the seuenth daie for this is the terme which Hippocrates hath giuen to perfect bodies and such as haue much naturall heate That which repayreth our nature is called nourishment and it is three fold the ayre drinke and meates the aire vpholdeth and maintaineth the substance of spirits the drinke all that which is liquide and the meate that which is solide This threefolde kinde of nourishment how well soeuer it be cleansed and purified hath notwithstanding euermore something disagreeing with our nature and that so much as that it cannot assimilate and turne it into it owne nature and therefore maketh an excrement of it which being retained altereth the bodie and maketh an infinite number of diseases See and beholde how meates doe of necessitie alter out bodies I leaue to speake of all other outward causes as ouer violent exercises an idle and sitting life long and continuall watching the passions of the minde which of themselues can make vs olde as feare and sadoes because we may in some sort auoide and shunne them I leaue also to say any thing of chancing causes or such as may befall vs by hap hazard as hurts I am onely purposed to shew that it is of necessitie that euery liuing creature must waxe olde that he sostereth within himselfe the naturall causes of his death and that he hath outward causes thereof hanging about him which cannot bee auoyded CHAP. II. A very not able description of olde age SEeing is is most certaine that our bodies Distinction of ages euen from the daye of our birth are subiect vnto many alterations and changes the phisitions hauing regard vnto such alterations as are most sensible and apparant haue diuided the whole life of man into many parts which they haue called ages The opinion of the Egyptians The Egyptians haue made as many ages as there are seuens in the number of an hundred for they verily beleeued that a man could not liue aboue a hundred yeeres The Pythagoreans The opinion of the Pythagorists which were very superstitious in their numbers haue published in their writings how that in euery seuenth we feele some notable change both in the temperature of the bodie and in the disposition of the mind and that al this ought to be referred and attributed to the perfection of the number of seuen I purpose not here to discusse the question of numbers I haue handled it largely enough in my third book of critical daies it is sufficient for me to sit downe and rest my selfe with all the most famous writers in saying that man following the naturall course of life vndergoeth fiue notable alterations and changes in his temperature and runnoth through fiue ages which are Fiue ages Infancie Adolescencie Youth Manhood or the constant age and Old age Infancie is hote and moist Infancie but moysture exceedeth and keepeth heate so vnder foote as that it cannot shew his effects it lasteth till thirteene yeeres of age Adolescencie followeth next Adolescencie which yet is hot and moyst but so as that heat beginneth to play the master the sparkes thereof are seene to glitter twinckle and shine in euery thing In the mankind the voice groweth greater all their waies and courses stretch and reach further and further they cast their first wool In the female kind their paps grow hard great to the sight of the eye their blood stirreth it selfe throughout all their bodie and causeth it to giue place and make way for it till it haue found out the doore this age holdeth on to twenty foure or tweny fiue yeeres which is the appointed and prefixed terme for growth After this commeth Youth Flourishing youth which is hot and drie full of heate liuelihood and nimblenes it hath his course till fortie yeeres The manly age Then the bodie is come to his full stature and this is called the mans age or constant age it is the most temperate of all the rest participating the foure extremities indifferently and continueth to the fiftith yeere Old age And there beginneth Olde age which containeth all the rest of our life But yet notwithstanding this olde age may further bee diuided into three ages Three degrees of olde age there is a first old age a second and a third I haue nothing to doe with that which is caused by sickenes and called Senium ex morbo The first old age is called greene because it is accompanied with prudence The first full of experience and fit for to gouerne common weales The second beginneth at seuentie yeeres The second and is incumbred with many small disaduantages it is very cold and drie As for the coldnes there are so manifest signes and tokens of it that no man hath euer made anie doubt of it for if you do touch them you shall alwaies finde them as cold as yee they haue no liuely or vermilion colour all their sences are weakened and become subiect to an infinite number of colde diseases but as for the other

His drie distemperature is the cause of an accident which the Grecians call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is a shrinking together and drienes of the christalline humour thereby becomming as it were white Hippocrates in his third booke of Aphorismes obserueth that this disease doth seldome happen but to olde folke and wee iudge it incurable The christalline may shift out of his place many waies for either it may shift to either side or rise higher or fall lower or it may shrinke further into the eye or come forward toward the forepart of the eye Howsoeuer it remoue and shift The accidents that fall out when the christalline humor is remoued out of his place it hurteth the sight very much if it bee sunke farre backe into the eye it causeth that wee cannot behold things which are neere at hand if it be set too forward it letteth from seeing a farre off if it be more to the one side or to the other we see a squint and when it is too high or too low euery thing seemeth two because they are not leuell The diseases of the watrie humour The waterish humour being also a part as well as the others hath his particular diseases If it be too much dried as it falleth out very oft in cataracts it taketh the sight cleane away If his store be greatly diminished the christalline humour drieth the grape-like coate withereth the hornie membrane shrinketh and the outward light is not rebated As concerning the glassie humour writers haue not noted any diseases properly belonging thereto but in my iudgement it is subiect to the same affects that the waterish both in his temperature substance and quantitie The diseases of the coates The tunicles of the eye are sixe but there are not any moe then three which haue been noted to haue particular diseases that is to say the coniunctiue the hornie and the grape-like for no man hath designed any vnto the cobweb-like net-like or glassie one The diseases of the white coate Inflammation The diseases proper vnto the coniunctiue are three inflammation the naile called in Latine Pterigium and mortification The inflammation of this membrane is sometime so sleight as that it healeth of it self and then it is called of the Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The cause thereof is for the most part outward as smoke winde the Sunne dust open ayre the smell of onyons if this inflammation be greater it is absolutely called Ophthalmia if it bee very great in so much as that it causeth the white to be very much puffed vp and thereby the apple of the eye to seeme to stand in a hollow the Greekes doe call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There are inflammations proceeding of blood others proceeding of choler others of fleagme The differences of the inflammation of the the eye and some of melancholie Galen speaketh both of moyst drie ones Hippocrates of symptomatical and criticall ones Trallian of such as are accompanied with a consumption and such as are not of maligne ones such as are vsuall in the plague time such as are not maligne of continuall ones and such as keepe ordinary returnes The naile The second kind of disease is called Pterigium This is a sinewy flesh which beginneth to grow most commonly at the great corner of the eye and from thence spreadeth it selfe like a wing vnto the apple of the eye it is also sometime like vnto a naile it followeth very often the inflammations that are not orderly cured it is accompanied with some itching as also with a little rednes and with some teares The seuerall sorts of it There are many kindes of it which are all distinguished either by their colour or manner of fastning of themselues or by their substance or greatnes As for the difference of colour there are white red and yellowish ones They differ in respect of their fastning because some sticke fast and close to whereas others doe suffer themselues to bee easily separated They differ in substance because some are thicke and some thin some soft some hard some membranous like skinnes some fatty and like vnto grease and some varicous which are like vnto a net knit and made of many small veines and arteries The bignes maketh the last difference for some are so small that they passe not the white othersome so great as that they reach vnto the apple of the eye and doe greatly hinder the sight The third and last disease proper to the white tunicle Mortification is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 blacknes or the mortification of the eye Paulus Aegineta and Aetius had defined it a bursting of the veines of the eye which causeth the blood to settle it selfe all vnder the white tunicle and the hornie also making all things seeme red vnto the eye The cause hereof is ordinarily outward as some blow or fall sometimes it is inward as the fulnes of the veines and the thinnesse of the blood There are some other diseases of the white tunicle as pustules and white spots in maner of a skarre but they are common with this vnto the hornie membrane The diseases of the hornie membrane Pustules The diseases of the hornie membrane are pustules common maligne and cankerous vlcers the retention of purulent matter called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the skarre and the rupture The pustules are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Grecians and Bothor of the Arabians These are like vnto little bladders proceeding of a thin and waterish humour which gathereth amongst the small skinnes of the hornie membrane and setteth them vpon the stretch The diuers sorts of pustules Their differences are knowne by their colour for some are blacke and therefore growing betwixt the first and second leafe and some are white and do grow betwixt the third and fourth leafe They differ in situation because some are more superficiall and others more deepe They differ in respect of matter because some doe rise of a cholericke humour others of a cleere and thinne water Vlcers commonly happening in the hornie membrane If the purulent matter continue long after that the pustules bee broken it maketh an vlcer in the hornie membrane The Phisitions both Greeke and Arabian make seuen sorts of vlcers three inward and foure outward the first of the inward is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Three vlcers within the hornie membrane of Paulus Aegineta and Auicen annulus of others Fossula that is to say a small streite hollow vlcer hauing no matter in it the second is wider and not so deepe Paulus calleth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Auicen lilimie the third is very filthie and croustie the Grecians call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Arabians Alficume The outward vlcers are foure The foure vlcers in the vtter part of the horny membrane the first is like vnto a grosse smoke and maketh the apple of the eye blacke they call it 〈◊〉

sprinkeled with a drop or two of the essence of Fennell or else to rub the palate with the said essence alone whose vapour ascending vp to the braine and eye will shengthen them and not suffer them to attract any vicious humours Rubbing of the head Fricasies and rubbings of the head made against the hayre with bags perfumes and artificiall coiles such as we will prescribe in the chapter of rheume will euacuate the braine by insensible transpiration Hippocrates in the diseases of the eyes Cupping-glasses applieth cupping glasses vnto the necke and hinder part of the head to the shoulders and thighes We must not forget among the particular euacuations of the head Causticks to speake of cauteries it is very true in deede that Phisitions doe not accord of the place where they are to bee applied Some there be that applie them vpon the top of the head but I am iealous of that place for that I haue seene fearefull accidents to happen by reason of Pericranium when the causticke hath searched too deepe and I could like it better that it should be applied behinde for such reuulsion would worke more effectually and further it is very certaine that the rising of all the sinewes lyeth behinde This is a worthie thing to bee noted A worthie obseruation of the originall of the sinewes and that which but a few men haue marked I haue oftentimes shewed the same both in my publique and priuate dissections There is a certaine Italian Phisition which boasteth himselfe to haue been the first founder and finder of this matter but I haue long since read the same obserued of Hippocrates in his booke of the nature of bones This cauterie is not to be applied vpon that part of the head called Occiput because that thence there would issue nothing The fittest place for the application of cauteries but ouer against the space which is betwixt the first and second Vertebre being the very place where Setons also are ordinarily set In old and inueterate diseases of the eyes I could approue of that deriuation made by cauterie behinde the eares because the branches of the veines and arteries called Carotides and Iugulares from which the eye hath all his outward store of veines and arteries do passe along that way And these are the most proper fit meanes in my iudgement to euacuate as well sensibly as insensibly the whole bodie the head and the eyes I haue not spoken of blood-letting because there is not any place for it here Blood-letting and it is so farre off from profiting them which are weake sighted that it weakeneth them more taking away blood which is the storehouse of nature and that iuyce whereby it is most cherished And yet in great paines inflammations and sudden fluxes of humours it may doe good After euacuation we must thinke how to strenghthen the braine and the eye to which vse and purpose there are opiates lozenges and powders which haue propertie to cleere and strengthen the sight as Treacle and Mithridate are greatly commended and commanded for such as haue their braine and eyes very rheumatike and moyst Medicines to strengthen and sharpen the sight The conserues also of the flowers of Betonie Sage Rosemary and Eyebright there may bee framed a composition or Opiate in maner as followeth Take of the conserues of the flowers of Eyebright Betonie and Rosemary of each an ounce of olde Treacle three drammes of conserue of Roses halfe an ounce of the powder of Diarrhodon a dramme and a halfe of Maces two scruples make an Opiate hereof with the syrope of Citrons and take thereof of oftentimes in the morning when you rise A confection One may also make a confection with two ounces of rosed Sugar and as much of the sugar of Borage flowers with two drams of the powder of Diarrhodon and halfe a dram of the powder of Eyebright Betonie and Fennell which may be taken in the morning A powder to be taken at night At night going to bed there are certaine powders to bee vsed and taken inward that so the vertues thereof may bee conueied together with the vapours of the meate Take of Eyebright three drammes of Fennell two drammes of Anise and of Seseli a dram of Mace two scruples and of Cinamome and Cloues as much of the seede of Rew and Germander halfe a dramme of the seede of Pionie a dram of roses Sugar so much as needeth make them into very fine powder and take thereof a spoonefull at your going to bed A powder helping concoction After meate also one may vse digestiue powders with Coriander Fennell red Roses Corall Pearle Eyebright Mace and rosed Sugar or els vse this condite Take of Fennell and Coriander Comfits of each halfe an ounce A condite of the rindes of Citrons and Mirobalanes condited of each two drammes of dried Eyebright one dram of Mace halfe a dram of rosed Sugar so much as needeth make thereof a condite whereof take a spoonefull after euery meale The Arabians doe highly commend this powder to bee taken after meate Take of the Trociskes of Vipers a dram of the powder of Eyebright foure scruples of sweete Fennell two scruples of the stones which are found in the eyes of a Pike one scruple of rosed Sugar foure ounces and make thereof a powder And hitherto concerning inward medicines which serue for the cleering and strengthening of the sight and now wee are to lay out the outward which are waters colliries and oyntments There are an infinite number of receipts but I will put downe three or foure of the most exquisite and best approued Outward remedies As for to wash the eyes in the morning vse these distilled waters Take of the crops of Fennell Rew Eyebright Veruaine Tormentil Betonie A distilled water wilde Roses of male Pimpernell Burnet Clarie Agrimonie Cheruile mountaine Hissope and mountaine Siler of euery one two good handfuls shred all these hearbes very small and infuse them first in white wine and afterward in the vrine of a young boy that is in perfect health and thirdly in womans milke and lastly in good honey after which distill the whole and keepe this water carefully putting euery morning a drop therof into the eye You may also euery morning wash your eyes with wine Another water wherein hath been boyled Fennell Eyebright and a little of Chebule Mirobalanes Some make a water of the iuyces of male Pimpernell Germander Clarie and Rew putting thereto afterward of Cloues Mace and Nutmeg two on three drams and haue infused them all together in white wine to distill them with good honey I finde the remedie which I now set downe A very good medicine for the eyes to be very good for the preseruation and strength of the eyes Take of the water of Eyebright and Roses well distilled foure ounces afterward prouide two or three small bags in which is contained a dram and