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A. Bielschowsky
Hanover, N. H.

Arch Ophthal. 1934;12(6):939.

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To the Editor.—Allow me to make some remarks in reply to Dr. Marlow's letter in the October number of the ARCHIVES.

I fully appreciate the value of the very interesting results obtained by Dr. Marlow with the occlusion test. In previous publications I have tried to explain the reasons for the difficulties which we find in ascertaining the real (anatomic) position of rest. But also in testing the relative (functional) position of rest in one and the same case the amount and kind of phoria may vary considerably if the patient is tested at different times and under different or even equal conditions. In the face of such experiences Dr. Marlow recommended the prolonged occlusion test of one eye in order to make a possible phoria manifest. He was led to this test by the fact that squint develops in the great majority of patients with amblyopia or amaurosis . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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