eye-water

A little borax serves for eye-water and alum for sore mouth.

The Land of Midian 2003

I do not recommend its use as eye-water, though an old farmer assures me it has undoubted virtues when thus applied.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

This is the best eye-water ever made for man or beast.

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette

To use it, mix one teaspoonful of rain-water with one of the eye-water, and bathe the eyes frequently.

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette

Then she offered me a receipt for eye-water, in case I suffered from weakness arising from over-exertion of those organs -- declined, with thanks.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various

If you have rheumatism, bathe in the splendid sulphur baths or the Indian Spring; if your eyes are weak, use the eye-water, which beats any ever charmed by magical incantations.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

I; and many a jug of Saint Patrick's eye-water, night after night, did his Reverence and myself enjoy, chatting over the exhilarating and national beverage.

Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell Anonymous

Col. Mulberry Seller's eye-water enterprise were as nothing to my graft when I get it agoing.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

Indian tribe besieging the two captains for eye-water, fly-blisters, and other patent wares.

Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark 1903

"Simple, simple" -- the great Colonel Sellers of eye-water fame never looked more cool and unconcerned when calling attention to the facts,

Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891