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March 1934

SURGICAL TREATMENT OF CONCOMITANT SQUINT

Author Affiliations

WASHINGTON, D. C.

Arch Ophthalmol. 1934;11(3):423-432. doi:10.1001/archopht.1934.00830100045003
Abstract

In discussing the operative treatment of squint, I shall limit my remarks to concomitant squint because I feel that this type is most frequently neglected. Much more can be accomplished for the young squinter than is being done. The child learns to walk, to talk and to fuse the two retinal images during the first years of life. This, then, is the only time when one can cure squint. Could one eliminate the many time-worn fallacies, such as the belief in ultimate cure by the prolonged use of glasses and the vague hope that the child may outgrow the condition, and attack the problem early, from both a scientific and a surgical standpoint, the final results would be far more gratifying. If glasses do not cure squint, or at least markedly improve it, in from two to three months, they probably never will. Notwithstanding this fact, a majority

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