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CAPTAIN FREDERICK H. THEODORE; MAJOR ROBERT M. JOHNSON; CAPTAIN NATHAN E. MILES; CAPTAIN WILLIAM H. BONSER

Arch Ophthal. 1944;31(5):399-402.

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This report is the result of a survey undertaken to discover the causes of impaired vision in 10,532 of 190,012 recently inducted soldiers entering on basic training at Miami Beach, Fla. The survey was instituted at the suggestion and under the direction of Colonel Wilford F. Hall, Medical Corps, surgeon to the Station Hospital, Miami Beach Training Base. All the men were examined in the course of processing at the Eye Clinic of the station hospital. It should be understood that although the men came from all parts of the country, this study is not intended to represent a visual cross section of the eyes of American men between the ages of 18 and 36, as the induction boards had already eliminated enough of that group to make such a study impossible. Rather, the purpose of the investigation is to throw light on the pathologic reasons that the corrected vision . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MEDICAL CORPS, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES

From the Eye Clinic, Station Hospital, Miami Beach Training Base, Miami Beach, Fla.

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