508 OxM DISEASES OF THE EYES. 



horfe would lee but wildly after all, without 

 artificial help. 



The cruel and filly idea of putting out one 

 eye to fave the other, appertains properly to 

 the old fyftem, and is coufin-german to that 

 religious practice of hanging or drowning u 

 poor wretch, burning or burying alive a guilt- 

 lefs animal, for bewitching or being bewitched! 

 And the perpetrators of thefe humane and 

 legal afts, were great and good men — great and 

 good men ! Were they knaves or fools ? They 

 were furely far enough from fools, but an ob- 

 flinate and implicit faith, and adherence to 

 fyftematic follies, has ever had the fad efPecl of 

 changing honell: men into knaves, and of lead- 

 incr the moft able into the commiffion of a6is 

 which would difgrace an ideot. The puttmg 

 out one eye is perfectly ufelefs, fince if the 

 other be naturally good, the meafure is unne- 

 ceffdry ; if not, it can have no good effecl, but 

 may have the evil one of inducing a frefh in- 

 flammation, perhaps by fympathy, upon the 



beft eye. 



In a GuTTA Serena, both eyes are gene- 

 rally affedcd, and are vulgarly called glafs 

 eyes, appearing cl^-ar and [hining, although 

 they admit little or no light. They are fome- 

 times lar^e and prominent like calves eyes, at 

 others fmall and flat, in colour often of a light 

 blu^, the Dupil being deep blue, or black. 



The 



