are ours), which is scientifically more important, and which should be the splendid function of the family physician, is ignored. Dr. Gould contributes but little towards the attainment of this lofty aim. He plunges at once into a " medical description of past lives," choosing for his examples De Quincey, Carlyle, Darwin, Huxley and Browning. At first sight the choice seems to be an unfortunate...

PURPOSE To compare the long-term surgical outcomes of augmented bilateral lateral rectus (LR) recession with original surgery. DESIGN Retrospective, nonrandomized clinical study. METHODS A total of 447 children with ≤35 prism diopters (PD) of basic and divergence excess-type intermittent exotropia, who underwent original bilateral LR recession based on the largest angle measured at distance...

Several models of myopia predict that growth of axial length is stimulated by blur. Accommodative lag has been suggested as an important source of blur in the development of myopia and this study has modeled how cross-link interactions between accommodation and convergence might interact with uncorrected distance heterophoria and refractive error to influence accommodative lag. Accommodative la...

AIM To determine the efficacy and safety of keratorefractive surgery in patients with accommodative and non-accommodative strabismus in a prospective study. METHODS Preoperative assessment included uncorrected (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), manifest and cycloplegic refraction and orthoptic examination. Laser in situ keratomileusis, laser epithelial keratomileusis and Artisan ...

610 CHANGES IN OCULAR AND VISUAL FUNCTIONS DURING SLEEP DEPRIVATION—INCLUDING EXOPHORIA (THE TENDENCY OF THE EYES TO DIVERGE) AND DIPLOPIA (double vision)—have been reported since the late 1930s.1,2 Currently, the significant implications of such changes in many practical and operational contexts account for several evaluations of the real effectiveness of saccadic eye-movement measures after s...

BACKGROUND In strabismus surgery the challenge is the preoperative determination of the surgical dosage. We assessed the long-term follow-up after strabismus surgery for exodeviations and evaluated the employed dosage. PATIENTS AND METHODS We present a study of 53 consecutive patients who underwent surgery for exodeviations. One year postoperative results were analysed based on strict criteri...

purpose: to report the results of orthoptic training in two middle-aged patients according to current theories. case report: a 56-year-old female with decompensated exophoria and myopia and a 68-year-old male with decompensated esophoria and moderate hyperopia underwent vision therapy according to standard procedures for improving fusional vergences and ocular accommodation. sheard and percival...

Let $S$ be a dense subsemigroup of $(0,+infty)$. In this paper, we state   definition of thick near zero, and also  we will introduce a definition that is equivalent to the definition of piecewise syndetic near zero which presented by Hindman  and Leader in [6].  We define density near zero for subsets of $S$ by a collection of nonempty finite subsets of $S$ and we investigate the conditions un...