Quotations from the many parts played by British army doctors interpreting the various facets of the anthropo-zoonosis Brucellosis, a disease which itself (as well as the generic name of its etiologic agent) is indeed named after one of them.

Previous models for ocular accommodation have suggested a dual sympathetic/parasympathetic innervation to the ciliary muscle. Such models would predict that sympathomimetic drugs should change the resting point or dark focus of accommodation. The effect of an alpha-adrenergic agonist (10% phenylephrine hydrochloride) on accommodation was examined; the results show a decrease in the near point o...

Aftereffects of accommodation and convergence demonstrate the adaptability of these two visual motor systems. These aftereffects were reduced after ramp tracking exercises of either accommodation or vergence, and this reduced aftereffect or fatigue was associated with an increase of accommodative vergence and vergence accommodation. When one motor system (accommodation or vergence) adapted more...

OBJECTIVE To describe a benign condition of transient, isolated accommodation paralysis in young patients as a specific entity. DESIGN Case series of children and young adults with transient loss of accommodation who were referred to the neuro-ophthalmology clinic at the Meir Medical Center from 1997 to 2006. Five young patients who complained of an inability to read had full neuro-ophthalmol...