4b. OPTHALMICS

Opthalmics are medicines appropriated to the Eyes.

Aphorisms on Opthalmics, collected by Culpeper, (Composita, 1656):

• Medicines appropriated to the Eyes, are of two sorts, such as are appropriated to the visive Spirit, and such as are appropriated to the Eyes themselves.
• The best Medicines for the eyes perform their office (as Physicians say) by a hidden quality.
• As for the constitution of the Eyes, seeing they are most exact in sense, so they will not lightly bear the least inconvenience; therefore every thing is not proper for the eyes, which sharpens the sight by attenuating.
• But even in external things you must have a special care that they be not too hot, nor too sharp, nor hurt by hardness, biting nor viscosity.

Warming Opthalmics

Warming Opthalmic Compounds

Cooling Opthalmics

Cooling Opthalmic Compounds

Medicine Which Preserve the Sight

Compounds to Preserve the Sight