Stereoscopic treatment of heterophobia and heterotropia : designed to accompany the phoro-optometer stereoscope and the Wells selection of stereoscopic charts / by David W. Wells.

  • Wells, David W.
Date:
1912
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    PREFACE. Conceding the clinical importance of hetero- phoria ophthalmologists are not agreed. As a protest against the extravagant claims made by some enthusiasts, there has arisen a class of eminent practitioners whose members abso- lutely ignore the subject and omit all tests for imbalance, unless there exists actual hetero- topia. The author believes he occupies a middle ground, and that the opinions herein expressed are conservative. The orthoptic treatment of heterotopia is not always successful, but there is a growing con- viction that the surgeon who rests content with securing a cosmetic cure has not discharged his whole duty to his patient. ■ It is unfortunately still true that the majority of heterotropic cases are not seen by the oph- thalmologist until the condition is quite firmly established. No opportunity should be lost to warn the family physician that the time to begin treatment is the minute the deviation is noticed. Believing that the cases of heterophoria requiring relief are much more numerous than those of actual heterotropia, the greater part of this essay will be devoted to the former con- dition.