PEDIATRICS Vol. 55 No. 3 March 1975, pp. 391
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THOMAS RAYNALDE ON GOGGLE EYES (1552)

T. E. C. Jr. M.D.

Thomas Raynalde (fl. 1540-1551), an English physician, is best known as the translator of Eucharius Roesslin's Rosegarten which is known in English as the Byrth of Mankynde. This, the first English printed book on midwifery, recommends that goggle eyes be treated as follows:

If the child have goggle eyes, or that it look a squint, then first set the cradle in such a place, that the light may come directly and right in the child's face, neither in the one side, neither in the other, neither above the head, lest it turn the sight after the light. Also mark, on which side the eyes do goggle, and let the light come unto it on the contrary side, so that by this means the goggling of the eyes may be returned to the right place. And farther, it shall be good to hang clothes of divers and fresh colours on the contrary side, and specially of the colour of light green or yellow, for the child shall have pleasure to behold these strange colours, and in returning the eyesight towards such things, it shall be occasion to rectify the sight again.1