ORTHOPTIC AND SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF STRABISMUS:  REPORT OF SIXTY CASES

The cases reported in this series were seen over a period of three and one-half years. For the first six months the management consisted largely of surgical measures and occasional fusion development with Worth's amblyoscope. The need for more orthoptic training was obvious from the start. An attempt was made to teach one of the nurses working in the outpatient department to give the exercises, using the amblyoscope and the Keystone telebinocular. This was a much better plan, but still far from satisfactory. Finally a department was established where the work could be done thoroughly and the records kept by an assistant who had spent the past eleven years assisting an ophthalmologist. The orthoptic training has been carried on in that department for the ten months prior to writing, and the results have been much more satisfactory than before.

EXAMINING ROUTINE

Particular emphasis was placed on obtaining from