IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) // 1.0 I.I ■50 "^^ •U ... I g5 2.2 L8 1.25 III 1.4 IIIJ4 ' ' '" .4 6" - ► m. >> '/ ^ ^. •'.v' Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 this (latent squint) without experiencing the least discomfort. I have also neglected all cases of hyperphoria which could not be shown to exceed one degree. 1 am not prepared to assert that one degree or less of hyper- phoria may not in some persons cause more or less discomfort. If so this should be relieved by wearing a correcting prism, and I am under the impression that I have succeeded in relieving a few of these cases in this way. The objections charged against prisms of two or more degrees do not hold good in prismatic action so feeble as this, and it may be that the mere mental effect of wearing glasses accounts for the apparent benefit, as there must be a strong neurotic element in all cases that experience distress from very slight perturbing influences, otherwise we should meet with an infinitely larger number of people disturbed by wearing im- properly centred glasses than is actually the case. This statement must not be construed in such a way as to minimise the importance of wearing properly centred glasses in all cases. It is merely intended to point out the incontrovertible fact that there are vast numbers of persons who can and actually do overcome slight artificial deviations without difficulty. It is not an uncommon experience that weak prisms, worn for the correction of faulty equilibrium, afford relief for some time and then lose their effect. I have come to regard this as an indication for operative interference in some cases where the proper course to pursue was difficult to determine. The equilibrium tests were made in distance (6 metres) with prisms, Stevens' phorometer and the compound Maddox rod coloured red. I regard this instrument as not less reliable than the Stevens' phoro- meter, but have habitually used both. It was essential to have some standard of fusion power, and the following was accepted as normal. Ab- duction 5° to 8", adduction 25" to 50°, sursumduction 2° to 3'. This standard is not absolute, and is chiefly useful for purposes of comparison. In every case where there is binocular vision, the range of fusion may be temporarily increased in any direction by systematic exercise of the muscles. I have seldom known this apparent increase in power to be long maintained after the exercises had been discontinued. Equal exercise of all the muscles will sometimes develop a preponderating power in a sense that did not exist before. This fact, when it occurs, is more significant than the original latent tendency. An habitual abduction of 5° and adduction of 25° (in the absence of hyperphoria) could hardly be regarded as abnormal, but an abduction of 5° with an adduction of 60° or more, and esophoria of more than 2° or 3° would probably be sufficient justification for opera- tive interference. When there is binocular vision with a latent ten- dency in any direction, and a considerable relative excess of power in the muscles acting in that direc- tion, the fault may safely be corrected by operation — tendon relaxation or tendon shortening. Relief from headaches, asthenopia, and neurasthenic symptoms often follows such operations ; they are, therefore, not only justifiable, but positively indicated under such circumstances in the absence of refractive error, or where the refraction has been corrected without afford- ing relief. A careful investigation of every case of muscular anomaly during a number of years in private practice has furnished from a material of 8,000 patients no cases that seemed suitable for operative inter- ference, i.e., about 1*4 per cent.; they may be classified as follows : — * Esophoria 37 Exophoria 31 Hyperphoria 30 Hyper-exophoria 10 Hyper-esophoria 2 no A tabulated statement showing the principal features of each case may be of some interest. The figures showing the degrees of tendency and fusion power are the average of several, sometimes of many measure- ments in each case. It will be seen that the number of cases operated upon for the three principal forms of deviation are nearly equal, i.e., 37 cases of esophoria, 31 of exophoria and 30 of hyperphoria. There were only 12 cases requiring operation for the correction of both horizontal and vertical deviation, and only 2 of these were for an upward and inward deviation. I desire to call attention to this fact, as it is a striking commentary on the contention of those who claim that the chief factor in the aetiology of con- vergent squint is to be found in the presence of hyperphoria. A study of the tabulated results shows t';-l there were 39, or 35*4 per cent, of cases which may fiirly be classed as cured ; 37, or 33*6 per cent., greatly bene- fited ; 20, or 18 per cent., somewhat benefited ; 8 unimproved, and in 6 the result was unknown. Leaving out these last 14 cases the operations would appear to have benefited in 87 per cent, of all the cases so treated. 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It will be observed that whilst there were many cases of refractive error among the no cases, there were also a great many with little or no refractive error, and in no case was an operation performed in the presence of a refractive error in which relief was not first sought by its correction. I cannot agree with those who contend that the correction of errors of refraction will always correct associated muscular faults. If this be true, how can we account for the many cases of muscular faults in which refraction is emmetropic ? It is undoubtedly true that some of the lower grades of muscular faults may be benefited by wearing suit- able prismatic glasses, but the usefulness of these is exceedingly limited, and those who depend upon them are doomed to frequent disappointment. I have not had sufficient experience in the correction of muscular faults in persons suffering from epilepsy and chorea to say that they cannot derive benefit from ocular therapeutics or operations to secure equilibrium, but so far as my experience goes I am inclined to believe that little or no relief is to be expected from such treatment, at least quoad the functional nervous disorder, but I would not hesitate to recommend the scrupulous correction of refractive errors in such persons, or of any considerable muscular fault, if present, just as 1 would recommend the removal of every discoverable source of nerve irritation or cause of ill-health whatever it might be. A searching analysis of the no cases 1 have tabulated 17 would bring out a good many interesting facts which I cannot discuss now ; for instance, among those cured there were two of esophoria with normal refraction in which the chief complaint was persistent vertigo, both entirely relieved by tenotomy of the internal recti ; in neither of these, however, was there anything approaching epileptiform phenomena. The clinical investigation of functional muscular anomalies can only be undertaken at the expense of enormous loss of time and the exercise of unbounded patience on the part of the surgeon ; hard conditions, it is true, but not too hard for him who delights in his profession and feels the joy of overcoming difficulties that have baffled others. If the results I have now placed on record are reliable, and I believe they are, being the outcome of many years' patient observation and steady work, free, I hope, from partiality of any sort, then it follows that whoever ignores the injurious effects of muscular faults in ophthalmic practice, fails to accord at least i per cent, of his patients the benefit which a proper application of his knowledge should bestow. 1 have purposely abstained from any discussion of the theoretical aspects of faulty muscular equilibrium, for the reason that I could not on the present occasion do justice to this part of the subject, and from a clinical standpoint it matters not what the cause of physical distress may be so long as the means employed for its relief are efficient. In reply to some points raised in the discussion which followed the paper, Mr. BuUer said : Mr. President, first as to the point raised by Dr. Stevens — want of uniformity in standard of measurement. I claim that it is impossible to establish a definite standard for all cases, and say that a man must come up to that standard or he is abnormal. I think that Dr. Stevens supports me in this contention, i8 if I remember rif^htly, in his work on functional muscular disturbances, the first work in which he brought this subject prominently before tlie public. He admits, I think, in that work, that there is a difference in individuals, and that a man may be allowed a certain difference of muscular power in different ocular muscles, and that what may be normal for one man is not normal for another. In other words, that the relative strength of the ocular muscles has to be taken into account in considering what is the normal standard. I said, from five to eight degrees for abducting power and twenty-five to fifty for adducting power. Now the relative proportion between these is pretty much the same, and if a man is comfortable with five degrees of abducting power and twenty-five degrees of adducting power after a good many trials as to the strength of the muscles, surely that is sufficient evidence that, as far as he is concerned, we may regard this as a normal condition or a fairly normal condition. On the other hand, there are a large number of people who I am perfectly convinced cannot get an abducting power of eight degrees excepting by long-continued exercise of the external muscles, and I believe that the abducting power, if increased by exercise, will lapse back into the original condition unless the exercise is main- tained, so that it is exceedingly difficult to establish an absolute standard, if indeed it is possible. As for the method of testing for deviations or the relative merits of the Maddox rod or Stevens' tropometer, I must say I have not found the tendency to confusion with the Maddox rod that Dr. Stevens claims to exist. I have, however, found a somewhat greater degree of deviation by the use of the Maddox rod than by Stevens' tropometer. Now as to Dr. Mittendorf's remarks concerning the frequency of operating. I would have no objection to doing frequent operations, and getting very little effect at a time, and repeating the operations as often as seemed necessary to achieve my results little by little ; indeed I would prefer to do it in that way if I had such control over \ 19 my patients as would enable me to do it, but 1 am quite sure that if I were to propose to operate upon my patients half a dozen times for correction of slight degrees they would leave me. I have gone on the principle of correcting as nearly as possible in one or two operations any moderate degree of defect, or if there is a large degree of defect I have stated plainly to the patient that I might have to perform several operations. Sometimes I have operated upon one muscle more than once, but never more than twice. That is my position. With regard to the refractive question I thought I had expressed myself distinctly on that point. I do attempt to correct every error of refrac- tion, and correct it as absolutely and completely as I know how. I cannot do more than that. I am only restrained from absolute correction of a refractive error by the ignorance of my patients, most of whom are too ignorant to tell me the difference between a quarter and an eighth of a dioptre ! With reference to Dr. Osborne's question as to what is the proportion of cases in which I have used atropine, I would say I have used atropine or homatropine in all my cases, as I consider that it is essential to use one of these drugs. Homatropine is sufficient in some cases, but in others I think that atropine is necessary, and I use it in order to get absolute correction of the refraction, for I know that in people less than 50 years of age you cannot depend upon getting absolute correction without using a mydriatic. I investigate the refractive error most scrupu- lously before doing anything for the muscular faults. I think Dr. Howe has misunderstood me in my statement as to the large number of cases of normal eyes *n which hyperphoria was discovered. I quite agree with him that an absolutely normal eye, a physiologically normal eye, is a rarity, and I thought I had explained that part of my position sufficiently clearly in saying that I allowed for physiological deviations to a slight degree, and where there was no disturbance apparently resulting from abnormal conditions I certainly would not be in favour of interfering in any way. ,■> 20 The tests as to muscular strength were made of course by examinations repeated sufficiently often to justify me in my own mind, in assuming that I had arrived at about what was the limit of the muscular power in the individual before I proceeded to operate. I have not operated upon any of these cases where it was fair to assume that the headaches were due to a fault in the general health. Surely if a person comes to you with a history of having headaches for fifteen or twenty years, it is absurd to assume that it is due to some fault in the general health which can be cured by giving him some trumpery drug or other. As a general rule, long- continued trouble of this kind depends upon something pertaining to the individual, which cannot be so easily cor- rected. If in the course of ten or fifteen years an individual has not had opportunity of improving his health in such a way that he can correct headaches depending on it, it is certainly remarkable, but if he comes to you with head- aches, and obvious errors of ocular functions are detected, such as to entitle one to assume that their correction may lead to some beneficial result, and after the operation your patient steadily recovers from the malady which has pur- sued him for ten or twenty years, surely it is fair then to assume that at least your result was due to the therapeutic measures you adopted. ;:%