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PAUL W. MILES, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1953;49(3):271-279.

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MANY STUDIES have been made of the "amplitude of accommodation" in presbyopia, but there has been little attempt to measure its component parts. Since it is a complex of active accommodation, depth of focus, and interpretation or suppression of blur fringes, the old term should be changed to "range of clear vision."

Many textbooks contain figures for depth of focus of the human eye derived mathematically from the dimensions of a foveal cone, but to my knowledge there are no subjective data except those of Ogle¹ (1927) and Burian and Schubert² (1936). They used the same method and obtained results similar to those to be described here. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ST. LOUIS

From the Department of Ophthalmology and the Oscar Johnson Institute of the Washington University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Ophthalmology at the One Hundred First Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Chicago, June 11, 1952.

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