Discoursing with a Lady, who had been very long troubled with a very Unusual Indisposition in her Head, and, tho’ She looks well, is never without Pain in it; tho’ looking into her Eyes, I perceived nothing Amiss, yet conjecturing that so Obstinate a Distemper must have had some Unusual Influence upon her Sight; I learn’d by Inquiry that after the Violent Fits of Pain and Disorder she had from time to time in her Head, if she did but cast her Eyes, or turn them suddenly, from one side to the other, there would presently ensue a Convulsive Motion in One of them, whereby it would notonly bedrawn away, but, which was very strange, All White Things, and most other Objects, that she look’d on with that Eye, appear’d Green to her: And yet this was not a Transient Discomposure that would go quickly off, but would Molest her for a good while, and frequently Return’d upon her for a whole year; so that she dispaired of Recovering the use of that Eye, vvherevvith yet she novv sees very vvell, tho’ her Cephalick Distempers vvere rather Mitagated than quite Cur’d. And vvhen I ask’d her, vvhether, vvhilest the Convulsion of her Eye lasted, she did not see Objects Double? She ansvver’d, that vvhilest that Distemper vvas upon her, if she vvent to Read in a Book, the Letters vvere so apt to appear Double, that when she vvas bent upon Reading, she vvas fain to shut the Distemper’d Eye, and Imploy only the Other.
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