The practice of surgery . For,when both eyes are implicatedin squinting—though in veryunequal degrees—it will befound quite impossible to re-store parallelism in positionand motion, if the myotomybe limited to that organ whichis most prominently affected—let the division be as extensiveas it may. When operation proves inall respects successful, not onlyis deformity removed, the func-tion of sight is also materially benefited. But all SquintS do [An elastic steel-wire Speculum for separating the ] not require myotomy. Accord-ing to the cause and circumstance, the treatment varies. S
The practice of surgery . For,when both eyes are implicatedin squinting—though in veryunequal degrees—it will befound quite impossible to re-store parallelism in positionand motion, if the myotomybe limited to that organ whichis most prominently affected—let the division be as extensiveas it may. When operation proves inall respects successful, not onlyis deformity removed, the func-tion of sight is also materially benefited. But all SquintS do [An elastic steel-wire Speculum for separating the ] not require myotomy. Accord-ing to the cause and circumstance, the treatment varies. Strabismus may be congenital. During early adolescence, attemptsare to be made to remedy the evil by due exercise or training of theorgan, when one only is affected. The sound eye is to be covered upfor some hours in the day; and the other, employed exclusively, may intime be compelled, as it were, to look straight upon the objects of care must at the same time be taken, that the sound eye do not Fig.
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