The British Journal of Children´s Diseases, 1916, Vol. 13 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The British Journal of Children´s Diseases, 1916, Vol. 13 The incidence is therefore close on 2 per cent., and girls are affected nearly twice as frequently as boys. The figures of the Belgrave Hospital for Children show how large a proportion of squinters there are amongst those brought on account of some difficulty with their eyes other than external disease. Amongst these 199 cases the great majority were of the fixed type, with one eye turned towards the nose, all but 9 were primary squints, i.e., not associated with actual disease of the eye. Æsthetics. The ugliness of squint is patent. It is probable that the "evil eye," for which many hapless old women were harried to their death on the suspicion of witch-craft in "the good old days," was no more than a common squint, a "cast" in the eye, or "bossing," as it is called in many parts of the country to this day. And bossing had an evil significance; of persons it indicated a despicable and worthless character, usually of decrepid age. "I speak to you, auld Bossis, of perditioun," Lyndsay, ´Works´ (ed. 1592). Not only was squint thought to be of evil significance, but the defect itself was considered the work of evil spirits. In "King Lear" we find the following in the scene on the heath at night: "This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock; he gives the web and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the hare-lips; mildews the white wheat, and hurts the poor creature of the earth." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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