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CAP. LXXXIV. De Strabismo.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is then, when the Pupilla or Ball of the eye declineth from the middest, so that it appeareth more in the one part of the eye than in the other.
Strabismus à primo ortu, & mala conformatione, non curatur; nec qui à mala assuetudine, vel etiam convulsione aut paralysi, si sit inveteratus, nunquam curatur. Recens verò malum interdum curationem suscipit.
This malady is most incident to children pre∣sently after their birth, through the negligence of the nurse, who setteth the cradle in which the Infant lieth on the side of the light, and not di∣rectly contrary unto it, which maketh the chil∣dren looking to the light, to turn the eye on the side to it; and thus by continuance they are ac∣customed to turn their eye awry.
I have seen it proceed in some, of having too much company with women, the excess where∣of doth marvellously scatter the spirits. In such a case the sick party ought to be nourished, and to drink Asses milk. Also the blood of a Tur∣tle or Pigeon dropped into the eye doth power∣fully help.
Paulus Aegineta appointed a Mask for such as had this disease, to the end they might al∣ways