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Author: Guillemeau, Jacques, 1550?-1613.
Title: A worthy treatise of the eyes contayning the knowledge and cure of one hundred and thirtene diseases, incident vnto them: first gathered & written in French, by Iacques Guillemeau, chyrurgion to the French King, and now translated into English, togeather with a profitable treatise of the scorbie; & another of the cancer by A.H. Also next to the treatise of the eies is adoiyned a work touching the preseruation of the sight, set forth by VV. Bailey. D. of Phisick
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Print source: A worthy treatise of the eyes contayning the knowledge and cure of one hundred and thirtene diseases, incident vnto them: first gathered & written in French, by Iacques Guillemeau, chyrurgion to the French King, and now translated into English, togeather with a profitable treatise of the scorbie; & another of the cancer by A.H. Also next to the treatise of the eies is adoiyned a work touching the preseruation of the sight, set forth by VV. Bailey. D. of Phisick
Guillemeau, Jacques, 1550?-1613., Weyer, Johann, 1515-1588. Medicarum observationum rararum., Textor, Benoît, 16th cent. De cancri natura et curatione., Hunton, Anthony.
[London]: Printed by Robert Waldegraue for Thomas Man and VVilliam Brome, [1587?]
Alternate titles: Traité des maladies de l'oeil. English.
Subject terms:
Scurvy -- Early works to 1800.
Cancer -- Early works to 1800.
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A Treatise of the diseases of the eyes, which are in num∣ber, an hundred and thirteene: wherevnto they are subiect.
The first section containing the descrip∣tion of the eye.
CHAP. 1. Of the profitte, vse, and situation of the eyes.
CHAP. 2. Of the rampires & defenses of the eies.
CHAP. 3. Of the coates and membranes or Partch∣memtlike skinnes of the eies.
CHAP. 4. OF the humors vvhich are in the eies
CHAP. V. OF the sinevves, veines, and arteries, of the eyes.
CHAP. 6. Of the muscles of the eies.
CHAP. 7. Of the kernels commonlie called the glandules of the eies.
CHAP. 8. Of the fourme and figure of the eies.
¶ The second section containing such diseases as befall the vvhole eye.
CHAP. I. Of the eie that falleth out of the place, which disease is called in greek ecpiesmos or proptosis, and in latine pro•ipsus, exitus, expres•io, exertio. Also of the Oxe eie, or great eie, which is in Greeke named exopthalmia, in latine o•u∣li prominentia, of the common sort goglo eye.
CHAP. 2. Of the leane, vvithered, or diminished eie, which is called in Greeke atrophia opthalmou, in Latin imm••tio profunditas macies oculi: Also of the litle eyes, co∣monlie called pinking eies, and in Greek Micropthalmos, in latine paruus oculus.
CHAP. 3. Of the bursten and broken eie, called in greeke rexis, in latine ruptio.
CHAP. 4. Of the eie vvhich is troubled or confu∣sedlie mixed, and set out of order, called in greeke Synchysis, and in Latin Inflatio •culi.
CHAP. 5. Of the eie vvhich is svvolne, and puffed vp, called in greeke oedema •pthal∣mou, in latine inflatio oculi.
CHAP. 6. Of the hot burning eie, or Carbuncle in the eie. called in greek anthracosis op∣thalmou, in latine, carbunculatio
CHAP. 7. Of the moist, running, or vveeping eie, called in greek Reuma opthalmou, in latine Fluxus oculi, delachrymatio.
CHA.P. 8. Of certaine diseases vvhiche the olde writers haue assigned to the whole eye: and first of such as see best downeward, or things that be neere them, commonlie called poe-blinde, in greek m•opiasis, mi∣opia, citossis, in latin, lus•ositas, nus•iositas, propiaqua visio.
CHAP. 9. Of the continual dimnes, diminishing, or hinderance of the sight, called in greek amblyopia, in latin, hebetudo, or ca∣ligatio.
CHAP. 10. Of those vvhich see not in the night which disease may be called night blnd∣nesse, in greeke it is called Nictalspi•sis, in latin Nocturna or Vespertina Caecitudo.
CHAP. 11. Of day-blindnesse, or catts eies, called in greeke hemeralopia, in latin noctur∣na visio.
The third section containing the diseases of the muscles of the eies which are by som referrd to the whole eie.
CHAP. I. Of the squint eye, called in greek Stra∣bismus, in latin Strabositas or oculi di∣stortio.
CHAP. 2 Of the shaking eye, or horse eye, called in greeke hippos, in latin equus.
CHAP. 3. Of the Senselesse eie, or Palsie in the eie, called in greeke paeralysis op•hal∣mou, in latin resolutio oculi.
¶ The fourth section contayning the diseases which are incident to the eyliddes.
CHAP. 1. Of the blovving or puffing vp of the eyelidde called in greeke emphisema opthalmou, in latin inflatio.
CHAP. 2. Of the Tettar, Ringworme, or Scabbs on the eielidds, or sharpe fleumy bleared∣nes, called in greeke Psoropthaimia in la∣tin L•ppitud•pruriginosa.
CHAP. 3. Of the itchinge or drye ringvvorme, or blearednesse of the eyes called in greeke xeropthalmia in latin arida l•ppitudo.
CHAP. 4. Of the hardnesse of the eye, or harde blearednesse called in greeke Scle∣ropthalmia, in latin lippitudo dura, or siccitas oculi.
CHAP. 5. Of the fallng of haire from the eieliddes or bauldnesse of them called in Greeke Maedarosis and Milphosis, in latine Def••∣uium pilorum or Glabaties palp•bra•um al∣so of thicknesse ioyned with baldnesse in the eyeliddes, called in greeke Ptilosis latine, Cra•sittes callo sapa•polrarum.
CHAP. 6. Of the hardnes of the eie-liddes, called in greeke Scleriasis, in latin Durities pal∣p•brarum, and of the harde aposteme in them called Se•rrosis.
CHAP. 7. Of the roughnesse of the eie-liddes called in greeke Trachoma, in latin As∣pritudo: Also of the Figge in the eie-lidds in greeke Sicosis, in latin Ficositas, or Fi∣cosa Palpebra, and of the brawnie eie-liddes called in greeke Tilosis, in latin Callosa Palpebra.
CHAP. 8. Of the Hares eie, or open eie, called in greeke Lagopthalmos, in latin Leporina palpebra.
CHAP. 9. Of the inuersion, or turning inside out of the eye, called in Greeke Ectropi∣um, in Latine Inuersio.
CHAP. 10. Of the eyelids which are tied & ioined togither, called in Greeke Agcylosis, and Agchyloblepharon, in Latine In∣uiscatio, or detentio palprebrarum: & of the diuers kindes thereof, named Symphisis and Prophisis blepharon.
CHAP 11. Of the shorte or maymed eye-liddes, called in Greeke Coloboma, in Latin mutilatio, and after Celsus, curtum.
CHAP. 12. Of a fatte substaunce lying vnder the eye-lidde, called in Greeke Hidaus, in Latine aquula, or palprebarum a∣quositas, or vesica.
CHAP. 13. Of the corruption or rottennesse in the eye-lids, called in Greeke Mide∣sis, or midosis, in Latine putredo.
CHAP. 14. Of the wart or barly corne on the ey∣lidde, commonly called (as I sup∣pose) a Stian, in Greeke crithe, or posthia, in Latin hordeum, or hordeo∣lum.
CHAP. 15. Of the hailestone of the eieliddes, cal∣led in Greeke chalaxion, in Latine grando.
CHAP. 16. Of harde knottes vpon the eye-liddes, named in Greeke Poriasis, in Latin Tophus: also of grauell or the stone in the eye-lids, in Greeke Lithiasis, in Latin Lapidescentia, or lapis pal∣pebrae.
CHAP. 17. Of lice which brede in the eye-liddes, called in Greeke pthiriasis, in Latine pediculatio.
CHAP. 18. Of haires growing in the eielids which hurt the eie, called in greeke trichiasis, in latin oculorum a pilis offensio. also of the diuerse kinds thereof.
CHAP. 19. Of the loosenesse or weakenesse of the eye-liddes, called in greeke atonia ton blepharon, in latine imbecillitas palpe∣brarum.
CHAP. 29. Of little pieces of flesh in the eye-lid, or mulbery, called in greeke pladoro∣t• ilam•rum.
CHAP. 21. Of the svvollen or stretched out veines called varix or varices, in Greeke cirsos, also of meliceris, steatoma, atheroma.
¶The 5. section, containing the diseases vvhich are incident to the membranes or parchment like skins of the eye.
CHAP. 1. Of the blacke mortified or bloudshed∣ding eie, called in greeke hipospagma, or aimalops, in latin sanguinis effusio, or sugillatio.
CHAP. 2. Of the puffing vp, or svvelling of the membranes of the eyes, called in Greeke epanastoma octhodes, in Latin ficus, or othewise hymenon epanasta∣sis, rebelliones, or membranarum emi∣nentiae, & extuberantiae.
CHAP. 3. Of wrinckles in the membranes, called in Greeke rutidosis, or russosis, in latin corrugatio.
CHAP. 4. Of the inflammation of the eye, called in greeke opthalmia, in latin inflam∣matio adnatae, ot lippitudo: also of the diuerse kinds thereof, which are che∣mosis in greeke, in latin hiatus or hia∣tulatio, phimosis, or praeclusio, taraxis, or perturbatio, epiphora or delachri∣matio, opthalmia sphacelisousa, or in∣flammatio ocularis in sphacelum de∣generans.
CHAP. 5. Of the naile of the eie, commonly cal∣led the webbe, in greeke pterugion, in latin vngula, or angulus.
CHAP. 6. Of certaine white spots in the mem∣branes named cornea, & coniunctiua, called in greeke aglia, or aiglia, in la∣tin albicans cicatrix: also of a knotte there arising, in greeke poros, & poro∣sis, in latine tophus, or durities adnatae or corneae.
CHAP. 7. Of the blisters in the hornie mem∣brane, called in Greeke phlictaenae, in Latine pustulae: also of their di∣uerse kindes.
CHAP. 8. Of the vlcers in the horny membrane called generally in greeke elcos, in latin vlcus: also of the diuers kindes of them, as mistines, in greek aclis, in latin caligo, cloudines, in greeke ne∣phelion, in latin nubecula, the rounde vlcer, in greeke argemon, in latin vl∣cus rotundum, the fierie vlcer, in greek epicauma, in latin vlcus inustum, the pitte, in latine fossula or annulus, in greeke bothryon, holownes, in greeke coiloma, in latin cauitas, the filthy vl∣cer, in greeke egcauma, in latin vlcu• sordidum
CHAP. 9. Of the malicious eating or consuming vlcers, called in greeke nomae, in latin vlcera depascentia.
CHAP. 10. Of the crabbed, or as it is commonly called, canctous vlcer, in Greeke el∣cos carcinodes, in Latine vlcus can∣ceratum.
CHAP. 11. Of a scarre in the cornea, or hornie membrane, called in greeke oule, in latin cicatri•: also of the diuers kinds thereof, as the spotte in the eie, com∣monly called argis, and leucoma, in latine albugo: of the vvhite shining scarre, in greeke paralampsis, in latine cicatrix splendens.
CAAP. 12. Of the eye full of matter or corrupti∣on, called in greeke pyosis opthalmou, in latine oculus purulentus: of the kindes thereof, which are a nayle or webbe, in greeke onix, in latin vnguis a putrefied eye, in greeke hipopyon, in latin sanies in oculo.
CHAP. 13. Of the falling out of the membrane v∣uea called in greek proptosis ragoides, in latin procidentia: also of the diuers kinds therof, resembling the head of a flie, in greeke miochephalon, in la∣tine formicalis ruptura, or muscae ca∣put: 2. resembling a grape, in greeke staphiloma, in latin vuatio or vuea: 3. resembling an apple, in greek melon, in latine malum: 4. resembling the head of a nayle, in greeke elos, in la∣tine clauus.
¶The sixt section, containing the diseases which are incident to the apple of the eie.
CHAP. 1. Of the enlarged or broad apple of the eye, called in greeke mydriasis, or pla∣tycoriasis, in latin pupillae dilatatio: al∣so of the displaced apple of the eye, in latin pupillae e loco remotio.
CHAP. 2 Of the consumption of the apple of the eye, called in Greeke Ptisis op∣thalmou, in Latine tabes oculi.
CHAP. 3. Of the webbe or cataract, called in greeke hypochyma, in latine suffusio, gutta, aqua, imaginatio.
The seuenth section, intreating of those diseases, which are incident to the humors of the eies.
CHAP. 1. Of greene, pale, or gray eyes, called in greeke glaucoma, or glaucosis, in latin glaucoma, or coesii oculi, and by the interpretour of Auicen, viriditas ocu∣li: also of the wolues-eie, or curst eie in greeke aethemoma, in latine raui o∣culi.
¶ The eight section, contayning the diseases incident to the corners of the eye.
CHAP. I. Of an Aposteme in the great corner of the eye, called in greeke, anchilops, in Latine, abscessus ocularis.
CHAP. II. Of the weeping fistula, called in greeke, aegilops in Latine, fistula lachrimalis.
CHAP. III. Of the outgrowing of flesh in the great corner of the eye, called in greeke en∣canthis, and according to Auicen ad∣ditio carnis lachrimalium.
CHAP. 4 Of the vveeping eye, called in greeke, rhaeas or rhaeades •pthalmou, in latine fluxus oculi.
CHAP. V. Of fretting and itching Vlcers in the corners of the eies called in greeke Peribrosis, and Epinyctis, in latin An∣gulorum Erosio, or Pruritus Lachry∣malium
The ninth section comprehending the diseases incident to the sinewe of sight, which is called n latin Nervus opticus ór visualis.
CHAP. I. Of the stopping of the sinewe of sight, in greek amaurosis, in latin obfuscatio, guita saerena: also of the deceiuing or dimme eie, called in greeke parorasis, in latin halluctnatio, or calltgatio.
CHAP. 2 Of the depression or weaknes in the si∣new of sight, called in greeke simptosis in latine, concidentia.
CHAP. 3. Of the breaking asūder of the sinevv of sight, called in greek, aporrexis in La∣tine abruptio also of paremptostis or coincidentia.
The Copie of the Letter.
¶ To the courteous and carefull Chyrurgian.
¶ A discourse of the Scor∣by translated out of Wyers ob∣seruations.
The causes.
The Signes.
The Prognostications.
Their Diet.
An Addition.
CHAP. I. Of the nature and diuers kindes of Cancers or Can∣kers.
CHAP. 2. The Cure of the Cancer in generall.
CHAP. 3. Of the nevv Cancer, not secret, but superficiall, that is to say: consisting in the outvvard parts, and not vlce∣rated, vvhiche Galen sometime cal∣leth the hidden Cancer.
CHAP. 4. Of the great, olde, rebellious, and vl∣cerated Cancker vvhich is onely cu∣red by manuall operation.
CHAP, 5. Of the secrete Cancer in the Matrice, or such lyke place vvhich cannot re∣ceiue incision.
CHAP. 6. Of the secrete and hidden Cancer.
CHAP. 7. Of the vlcerate Cancer,
CHAP. 7. Of the cancer in the head, necke, shoul∣ders, brest, arme-holes, flanke.
CHAP. 8. Of the Cancer in the matrice.