Tes iatrikes kartos, or, A treatise de morborum capitis essentiis & pronosticis adorned with above three hundred choice and rare observations ... / by Robert Bayfield ...

CAP. LXXXII. De Hippo.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, is an affection of the eye, coming at the first framing, and from the birth of the party, wherein the eyes cannot abide in one place, but are always shaking, and continually trembling in such manner, that you may behold the eye going hither and thither without any rest.

Although Gorraeus accounteth it no disease, because no Physician hath set down any cure for it, yet in labouring to redress this fault, I would use the Instrument called a Mask, as we hinted, to the end, that he which were molested

therewith might not see but by that little hole, whereby the eye should be compelled to stay in that place in looking, which might cause it af∣terward to remain more stedfast.

Some think it best to binde or roll the eyes for a time, and then again to unroll them, which may be profitable in this affection, as also in the squint-eye, called Strabismus.