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I had the opportunity lately to make use of millepedes. There was a child here in this town (a citizen’s daughter) of six years of age, troubled exceedingly with sore eyes, especially one of them, which she would not suffer to be touched or opened for eighteen weeks and more, nor could not endure the least light, having a very sharp fretting rheum in it, which did inflame all the cheek on that side, on which it fell. She had been touched for the evil, but received no benefit. I only gave her small beer with millepedes bruised and infused in it, for a fortnight, to drink for her ordinary drink, and one gentle purge before the use of them; and she is as well recovered as ever she was in her life; the rheum is all gone; she hath no blemish at all in them, only a little speck upon the cornea, which since is worn quite off.
The Correspondance of Robert Boyle. Volume 2, "Letter from Lower to Boyle," June 1664
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We are told that there have been golden ages in the past, but which ones they were seems always to have been concealed in the same poetic minds in which they first originated.
The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke. Essays on the Law of Nature. Locke's "Censor's Valedictory Speech" of 1664: "Can Anyone By Nature Be Happy in This Life? No."
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