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Walter J. Bristow, M.D.
Columbia, S. C.

Arch Ophthal. 1938;19(5):797.

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To the Editor:—In the December 1937 issue of the ARCHIVES the surgical treatment of strabismus is reviewed by Dr. Maynard C. Wheeler of New York. On page 1005 Dr. Wheeler states: "One of the newer and more original contributions to the surgical treatment of strabismus is the method for shortening a muscle by means of the myocampter, perfected by Barraquer."

I have never seen Barraquer's myocampter, but Dr. Wheeler's description of the instruments and the procedure is almost identical with that of the instruments and procedure of the late Dr. H. H. Briggs, of Asheville, N. C.

In the Transactions of the Section on Ophthalmology of the American Medical Association for 1909 and again in a paper read at the New York meeting of the American Medical Association in June 1917 and published in the Transactions of that year (pages 260-270), Dr. Briggs described his method of tendon . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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