On squinting, paralytic affections of the eye, and certain forms of impaired vision / by Carsten Holthouse.

  • Holthouse, Carsten, 1810-1890.
Date:
1858
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On squinting, paralytic affections of the eye, and certain forms of impaired vision / by Carsten Holthouse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    SECTION I. ILLUSTRATIONS OF CONVERGENT SQUINT. I. OE LUSCITAS, OR, PARALYTIC CONVERGENT SQUINT. The deformity which goes by this name, con- sists of an immovable distortion of the eyeball in an outward or inward direction. It may be caused by disease or injury of the orbital muscles or nerves, by burns about the eyelids, or by tumours within the orbit. The most common cause is undoubtedly the first, namely, disease of the orbital nerves or muscles producing paralysis of the latter. Unlike ordinary strabismus, the paralytic form is met with more frequently in the outward direction, and will be treated of under the head of Divergent Squint. I shall now proceed to give examples of paralytic convergent squint.