Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [serial] . ands of children all around us are being sacrificed for the simplereason that we have been slow to grasp and disseminate a few fundamentalfacts involved in most cases of crosseyed children. The fact that a largepercentage of these cases are amenable to proper treatment, coupled withthe fact that so few seek treatment until they have reached the agewhere all hope of relief has passed, prompts me to bring this matter tothe attention of the family physician. Too often parents minimize the seriousness of this defect, bei
Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [serial] . ands of children all around us are being sacrificed for the simplereason that we have been slow to grasp and disseminate a few fundamentalfacts involved in most cases of crosseyed children. The fact that a largepercentage of these cases are amenable to proper treatment, coupled withthe fact that so few seek treatment until they have reached the agewhere all hope of relief has passed, prompts me to bring this matter tothe attention of the family physician. Too often parents minimize the seriousness of this defect, being contentwith the fact that the child is happy and comfortable, and unmindfulof the handicap to the childs future success and happiness. If an arm orleg of a child were paralyzed or deformed, the obvious defect would claimthe attention of the parents, and little time would be lost in bringing thematter to the attention of the family physician. But if an eye is out of 158 THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA m DR. W. P. SPEAS MUSCLE TUCKING INSTRUMENT -i-SlZE.
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