SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the Angola Seed: SHOWING Its Admirable VIRTUE IN CURING All DISTEMPERS OF THE EYES.  
Written by a Doctor of Physic in the Country to Dr. Goddard, one of the Royal Society at London, Anno 1660.  
London Printed, etc. 1682.   

SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the Angola Seed: SHOWING Its Admirable Virtue in Curing all Distempers of the EYES. In a LETTER, etc.  
SIR,  
I Received your Letter, wherein you give me an Account of a strange sort of Distemper in the Eyes of the Inhabitants about London: And I find you desire that I would communicate what useful Observations I have made in that Distemper.  
I must tell you, that our Country Folk are infested with the same Distemper, and I attribute it unto some unusual Qualities in the Air and Winds at this time; and I find that the use of an American Specific doth great Service with us: I learned it of an Indian Doctor; it is a sort of a Scarlet Seed with a small black Speck in it: They are not easy to be met with, I once had some from a Druggist in Walbrook, but have forgot his Name. They singularly dry up Rheums in the Head, strengthen the Optic Nerves, cool Inflammations in the Eyes, and comfort the Animal Spirits; they cleanse and heal: By their Balsamic virtue disperse the cloudiness of the Brain, and clear the Sight. I am credibly informed that Dr. Stepkins that Eminent Oculist, performed many Admirable Cures with them, amongst Men, Women and Children.  
One of your Citizens of London, who hath consulted with Dr. Turbervil of Salisbury, came into our Country, having a grievous Opthalmy, desired my Assistance, finding no Relief by his Advice. I directed him to the use of these American Seeds: I gave him the Tincture, Spirit and Extract in Waters, and also in Milk, and in all the liquid Aliments he took, and I caused him to wear a Necklace of the same. It dried up all his Rheums in Forty days time.  
An old Gentlewoman whose Eyes were almost put out by the Evil, and had not only an Inflammation, but a Cataract was much feared, because some of her Relations had been blind by that Distemper. I applied the same Remedies to her, and it succeeded to Admiration.  
A young Woman whose Eyes were wonderfully inflamed after the Small Pox, and so weak she could not endure to look against the Light, and in great Pain; she had been blooded, and Purged, and Bannioed and Blistered, and Cupped, had made two Issues, and a Seton in her Neck; and the Lady Ivy had applied many Eye-waters, and Powders and Ointments for seven Months▪ and all to no purpose; and at length the use of this Specific perfectly recovered her Eyes, to the great Joy of her Relations and herself.  
A Child about four years old, whose Eyes were extreme bad, and lay under the hands of a Woman who pretended great skill, she picked Five pounds out of the Parents pocket, upon a Promise of Cure, but never performed it. But at length one who had received Benefit by this Specific, recommended it, and received thanks for so doing from the Child's Friends, and it hath been well ever since.  
A Minister whose Eyes by Reading and late Studying had a violent Defluxion of Rheum upon them, that they always looked Blood-shotten; after the use of other Methods for two Months together, to no purpose; and then hearing of this Medicine, applied himself to it, and only washed his Eyes with pure Spring-water, and this Specific perfectly recovered him.  
A young Child born blind, was helped by the Nurse's taking these Drops, the Child only sucking her Milk, but its Distemper was an Opthalmy, but not a true Cataract.  
There was a whole Family very much Distempered with Hot Rheums in their Eyes; three of the Persons were in danger of Cataracts growing in them: They had used all sorts of Applications, and had suffered three pretending Women to tamper with them several Months, and at last hearing of these Scarlet Seeds, wore Necklaces of them, and took the Tincture made of them in all their Drink, and in a Month's time were perfectly Cured, only taking twenty Drops at a time.  
FINIS.