AFIER operations for convergent squint, a comparatively frequent result is that the eyes are straight for distance, but on attempting near vision, the squint reappears. It happens even after a full recession of both medial recti and after the fullest possible spectacle correction. This residual acconmmodational squint proves a great handicap to the full restoration of binocular single vision an...

During routine work in the Orthoptic Department, we noticed that, in some children who were having their visual acuity tested by the Snellen method for the first time, the results proved worse than those recorded previously by the Sheridan Gardiner method. The majority of patients concerned had been having occlusion for amblyopia, which was either presumed or shown to exist by a test of the vis...