Tired eyes could be helped by an infusion of elderflowers in water. When cool, this was used to bathe the eyes. Alternatively, an infusion of raspberry leaves, marshmallow leaves and groundsel leaves could be used as an eyewash.
A rather messy cure consisted of butter or vegetable fat blended with honey and the white of an egg. The affected eye was to be smeared with this mixture. A cure for eyestrain whose ingredients might to be difficult to find involved the use of the breast milk of two different nursing mothers. This was to be applied to the eyes.
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