An old name for amauroʹsis. It was at one time thought that a transparent, watery humour, distilling on the optic nerve, would produce blindness without changing the appearance of the eye.
“So thick a ‘drop sereneʹ hath quenched these orbs.”
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Milton: Paradise Lost, iii. 25.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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