This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on Web of Science (1)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

JOSEPH I. PASCAL, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1945;33(6):478-481.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

The subject matter of this paper pertains to work which, I think, will form a larger portion of ophthalmologic practice in the future than it does at present. I am using the term visual exercises in its widest possible application.

All are familiar with exercises which are used to develop and improve central macular vision. I think it is generally agreed that these exercises do not increase macular acuity in the physiologic sense. The improvement in vision which results in a great many cases is most likely due to an intensification of the psychic phase of the act of seeing. As Dr. Lancaster¹ has so aptly put it in a recent article, "seeing is only half ocular—the other half is cerebral."

The improvement of central vision is often a large part of the orthoptic treatment of squint. The dulled central vision of the deviating eye is called amblyopia ex . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

Footnotes
Presented before the New York Society for Clinical Ophthalmology, Jan. 8, 1945.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?