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hypermetropia

NOUN
farsightedness
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WEAK
nearsightedness


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Observation of these cases further teaches, that treatment with convex glasses has prospects of success, particularly in periodic squint with hypermetropia, if squint can disappear spontaneously even without correction of the hypermetropia.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.

During the examination I found on the right hypermetropia 5·5 D., visual acuteness 5/12 to 5/9, on the left with + 5·5 D., V = 1/12.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.

Isler found in hypermetropia of 2 to 10 dioptres squinting in 75 per cent.; in my statistics H. 1·5 D. to the highest degrees of hypermetropia are likewise represented by 75 per cent.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.

At any rate the fact is settled that squint can disappear spontaneously, and without the aid of convex glasses even in high degrees of hypermetropia.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.

Afterwards, Donders sought to explain the occurrence of convergent strabismus in emmetropia by paresis of accommodation, which must indeed, according to his theory, produce the same result as hypermetropia.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.