eye-bright

And there were bits of eye-bright and strong blue bugle ...

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

The association of ideas was suggestive -- the plant eye-bright was used for centuries in diseases of the eye because a black speck in the flower suggested the pupil of the eye.

The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

The eye-bright seer of all things, that wasteth every wrong,

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865

The eye-bright seer of all things, that wasteth every wrong,

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865

So I called to mind that he had once asked me what name we called the eye-bright in these parts, though it were not this morrow, but I should not need to say that, and it should be no lie, seeing he did say so much.

Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Emily Sarah Holt 1864

The juice which exudes from the plant is of a penetrating and diffusible nature; from its effects upon the eye it is called "eye-bright."

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

EU'PHRASY, the herb eye-bright; so called because it was once supposed to be efficacious in clearing the organs of sight.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

In the fall, if you can find the tufts of eye-bright or houstonia cerulia, and mingle them in with your mosses, you will find them blooming before winter is well over.

American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

She came to the stream, Mill Brook, that flowed out from her Pond, where grew the virgin's bower or traveller's joy, bedstraw, the nighshades, the beautiful cardinal flower or eye-bright just budding, and side-saddle flowers.

Margaret 1851

He prescribes euphrasia, eye-bright, for disease of the eyes; appealing confidently to the strange old doctrine of signatures, which inferred its use from the resemblance of its flower to the organ of vision.

Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851