TEARS

are secreted by a g situated Pa — be given in any case of fever. It may be prepared thus:— | Side of the Fa The tears are smeared over rage Two ounces of dried tamarinds are obtained from the | the eye by the eye-lids, and the eye is thus cleansed. grocer and are boiled in three pints of water for an hour; | tears then escape through two pores in the eye-lids at the the mixture is then strained and served when quite cold, inner corner of the eye, and pa down the lachrymal duct [s. 415]