Aquous

ELectuarium è ſucco Roſarum doth draw forcibly from places farre diſtant, choler, thinne and aquous humours, very commodious and eaſie to be vſed for thoſe which be troubled with the goute, in caſe they haue not a vehement ague ℞.

This is apparent in all Broths, and Extracts of Grain or Herbs, or the Juyce of Fruits, which (the aquous part being exhaled) leave a Rob, or Extract, clammy thick, and of the Conſiſtence of Tar, although not pinguous, but viſcous and gummous.

We have one reaſon more to add for its being aquous, becauſe all bodies intrinſically abound with proper ſalts, which muſt be diſſolved and diluted: but of this, more in another place.

We ſhall conclude this hiſtory of the eye with a paſſage from the celebrated Dutch anatomiſt, Antonius Nuck concerning the aquous humour which ſuſtains the uvea tunica. This profeſſor, in an anatomical lecture at Leyden, publicly demonſtrated that the aquous fluid copiouſly flowing out of the eye of a dog, which had been wounded for the purpoſe, in ſix hours time the ball of the eye recovered from its flacid ſtate and was replete with the aquous humour, without any medicinal application; and it is the ſame with the human eye, nature having made proviſion ſpeedily to repair the loſs of this fluid, from any wound in the outermoſt coat of the eye, by the help of certain lymphatic ducts inſerted into the ball of the eye, and proceeding from glandules formed to ſeparate this water from the blood for that purpoſe.