The older ophthalmologists had a parallel strabismus and probably understood by that, what we now designate as relative divergence.
If the externi preponderate, then permanent or periodic divergent strabismus is caused.
The operation may be performed with or without an iridectomy, the lens being removed by pressure on the cornea with a large strabismus hook.
With the help of cocaine and good illumination they can easily be removed with a strabismus hook, Lister’s ear hook, or a pair of fine probe-pointed nasal forceps with serrated extremities.
The strabismus hook may be inserted, both upwards and downwards, to see that the tendon is properly divided, but all pulling on the muscle with a hook should be avoided, as it is painful and disturbs the muscular equilibrium.
The tendon is defined in the wound and a strabismus hook passed beneath it; its middle portion is isolated and two silk sutures, with a needle at each end, are passed through it and tied.
Division of the tendon of the internal rectus only, without its expansion, will usually rectify cases of latent convergent strabismus with a deviation of about 12° prism (Maddox test).
Strabismus may be either single or double--affecting one eye or both.
Generally it is a congenital defect, and the squinting is toward the nose--strabismus convergens.
The varieties of strabismus are so common that they will be passed without mention.
Angell and Elsner in March, 1895, reported a case of anencephaly, or rather pseudencephaly, associated with double divergent strabismus and limbs in a state of constant spastic contraction.
The muscles of the extremities, especially those of the legs, are oftenest affected, but I have known the head as rigidly retracted as in tubercular meningitis, and have seen cases in which strabismus has been an early symptom.
Strabismus is a symptom of very ordinary occurrence, particularly when other paralytic or spasmodic phenomena exist.
Another curious mark rarely wanting in the subjects of mental strabismus is an irregular and often sprawling and deformed handwriting.
Strabismus is sometimes complicated with other diseases, such as convulsions, epilepsy, hydrocephalus, and analogous lesions.
Hence our schoolrooms may be regarded as a fruitful source of mischief, one cross-eyed child being often the cause of strabismus in many others, merely from that habit of imitation to which the young are so much addicted.
As might be supposed, these different forms of strabismus do not occur with equal frequency.
The most common variety of strabismus by far is the convergent, in which the eye is directed inwards, or inwards and upwards.
In the same manner we may satisfactorily account for the existence of strabismus in several members of the same family, of which a remarkable instance has recently come under my own observation.
One of the most disagreeable effects of strabismus is the deformity to which it leads, rendering the individual an object of constant observation and ridicule.
Whether strabismus occurs with equal frequency in both sexes, is still an unsettled question.
Strabismus essentially consists in a contracted state of one or more of the muscles of the eye.
The operation for strabismus is liable to occasional failure, the principal causes of which may be thus enumerated:—1.
The eye in this variety of strabismus is seldom drawn out very far, nor is it so apt to be attended with the same amount of upward obliquity as the convergent.
He told me that years ago he had a mild case of strabismus and that both eyes seemed to glare down his nose till he got restless and had them operated on.
Whenever he took off the glasses, the strabismusand diplopia immediately returned.
The sergeant-major was removed to Lemnos with headache and giddiness, and a week later developed bilateral internal strabismus with double vision and head noises.
His strabismus was a startler, and it shook my nerve at once; It affected me with dizziness, like gazing from a height.
His hideous strabismus held me helpless, a blind thrall Shattered my nerves completely, put my skill to open shame.
Their occasional association with strabismus or nystagmus constitutes a plea for their possible dependence on some encephalic lesion.
Strabismus (Walton) and ocular palsies (Nieden) have also been known to lead to lateral deviation of the head and permanent torticollis.
Pupils were widely dilated; internal strabismus of the right eye was present.
The strabismus which was present on the day of admission had entirely disappeared; pupils slightly dilated.
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