Ex amplissimi gratiosissimique Collegii Medici Inclytae Academiae Basiliensis decreto ac permissu, Theses sequentes de praecipuis adnatae oculi tunicae affectibus

XXXII.
In ophthalmia, the air should be either warm or cold, according to the reason of the cause, but not immoderately so; the patient should remain in a dark place; use no food, or a more sparse and laudable one; avoid meats, milk, acid, salty, sharp things, and all δύσπεπτα hard-to-digest substances.

XXXIII.
The drink should be honey-water or barley water. Wine is not to be permitted except during the decline of the disease, and if the lippitude has originated from thicker humors, then white and astringent wine, thin and watery, may be allowed.

XXXIV.
If the bowels do not respond naturally, they must be induced by art. Exercises, as well as disturbances of the mind, should be avoided. But in this case, quiet and abstinence are the most beneficial and the foremost of all things.

XXXV.
Hippocrates summarized the method of medicines in aphorism 31, section 6, where he says: The drinking of undiluted wine, the bath, fomentations, bloodletting, or a purgative medicine resolves pains of the eyes.

XXXVI.
Therefore, when ophthalmia has arisen from fullness, bloodletting will aid, where other factors concur. It is convenient to cut the external vein of the elbow, called the Humeral cephalic vein, directly on the side of the suffering eye, until fainting occurs if the inflammation is violent; if it is lighter, then observe those things that Galen proposes to be considered in the mission of blood.

XXXVII.
If pain arises from the acrimony of the humors, and the inflammation...