On squinting, paralytic affections of the eye, and certain forms of impaired vision / by Carsten Holthouse.

  • Holthouse, C. (Carsten), 1810-1901.
Date:
1897
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Credit: On squinting, paralytic affections of the eye, and certain forms of impaired vision / by Carsten Holthouse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mia. She could witli great difficulty read a few words of the brevier type; the sight of the left eye was good. The operation was performed subcoujunctivally with complete success; and three days afterwards^ the sight of the eye being again examined, she could read the noupureii type with great facility. This and the preceding cases illustrate the advantages of the subconjunctival mode of dividing the adductor muscle, which is more especially to be preferred whenever the squinting eye is fuller that the other. IV. OF THE FOURTH FOUM OF CONVERGENT SQUINT. This form, it will be remembered, is chiefly remarkable for the tendency of the deformity to shift fi'om one eye to the other, which has given rise to the term Alternating being applied to it. This peculiarity has been supposed by Mackenzie and others to depend on the equality of vision of the two eyes, or rather on the slight