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E. V. L. BROWN, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1938;19(5):719-734.

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Most studies of the changes in the refraction of the eye lack both accuracy and mass of observation. There are two notable exceptions. Steiger¹ in 1913 studied hundreds of Swiss school children between 6 and 11 years of age and developed therefrom his biologic theory of inheritance of states of refraction and the changes which take place in the eyes of growing children. The refraction was determined by the "manifest" method, without cycloplegia, and his conclusions are open to criticism on this score. The second study was made by Kempf, Jarman and Collins² for the United States Public Health Service in 1928 on the homatropinized eyes of 1,860 school children, and the results should therefore be more accurate than those of Steiger. A more recent study of the problems connected with defective vision in school children was made on the homatropinized eyes of 2,625 children by twenty-two observers . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Max Epstein Dispensary and Billings Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Chicago.

Footnotes
Read before the Fifteenth International Ophthalmologic Congress, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 12, 1937.

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