hypermetropia

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In hypermetropia, if one causes fixation at about 30 cm. and then covers the eye with the hand, it frequently deviates inwards.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.

Afterwards, Donders sought to explain the occurrence of convergent strabismus in emmetropia by paresis of accommodation, which must indeed, according to his theory, produce the same result as hypermetropia.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.

Asthenopia, which occurs in children in connection with hypermetropia, is nearly always accompanied by defective vision.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.

Further, however, I maintain that as a rule, at the age when squint usually begins, the accommodation really suffices to overcome even high degrees of hypermetropia.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.

Those cases deserve particular mention, in which it remained doubtful whether hypermetropia of slight degree or emmetropia was present.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.