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Mr. Home's Lecture 
neously tied up the sound eye ; the bandage was therefore re- 
moved to the other eye, and that which had been bound up was 
left open. He now saw objects without pain, or the smallest 
uneasiness. He was thus kept with one eye confined for a week, 
after which the bandage was laid aside ; the disease proved to 
be entirely gone, nor did it return in the smallest degree while 
he remained in the hospital. Rest alone had been sufficient to 
allow the muscles to recover their strength, and thus produced 
a cure. 
A repetition of cases, I am very sensible, is not the most 
pleasing mode of conveying information, except to medical 
men; I have therefore selected those only, which are absolutely 
necessary to explain the different phenomena of the diseased 
states of the eye at present under consideration. The cases 
brought forward with this view, are rather to be looked upon 
as the detail of so many experiments made in the investigation 
of the diseases, than as histories of particular patients. 
When muscles are strained or over fatigued, to put them in 
an easy state, and confine them from motion, is the first object 
of attention; and this practice is no less applicable to the mus- 
cles of the eye, than to those of other parts. 
Of Squinting. 
Whenever the motions of the two eyes differ from one ano- 
ther, whether in a less degree, so as to produce double vision, 
* or in a greater, turning one eye entirely from the object, the 
disease has been called squinting. What I mean at present to 
consider under this head is, where the deviation of one of the 
eyes from the axis of vision is greater than that by which ob- 
