An additional word as to the treatment of exophoria / by George M. Gould.

  • Gould, George Milbrey, 1848-1922.
Date:
1893
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Credit: An additional word as to the treatment of exophoria / by George M. Gould. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    [Reprinted from The Medical News, November i8. 1893.] AN AD D mON AL WORD AS TO THE TREAT- MENT DF EXOPHORIA. By george M. GOULD, A.M., M.D., OF PHILADELPHIA. I HAVE received such a large number of letters of inquiry as regards the little suggestion in rê the treatment of exophona made in The Medical News of October I4th, Æat it bas become almost impossible to answer each inquiry individually. I should like to add a word or two in order to classify and explain several points that seem to bave been left in some doubt : I. The treatment of insuffîciencies by means of weak pnsms to strengthen the muscles.” seems to bave been devised and recommended by Dr. Dyer so far back as hnn^’ vétéran clinician and honored teacher. Dr. Noyés, of New York (and pos- sibly many others), bas long carried out this plan practke''^'? the plan, in bis thTt me I explained at Iberatme’of^rb'^ “PP^^-tunity to look up the bterature of the subject, and did not know of the excdlem ^ of the D. Savp ^ “ethods suggested by my friend o^her f ’ Tenn. To these and any acknnTÎ^'i? “ Prism-gymnastics ” I would gladly i perti n?t P’-«‘''edence and give ail honor !o far ThkTn muscular gymnastic exercises of the eye 1 his in answer to two correspondents who thought I had ^hat even these mLhods treatment bave proved unsatisfactory is évident from