British Journal of Ophthalmology · 1921 · 19 citations · 0 references
MedicineOphthalmologySurgeryOcular AnatomyOcular PathologyOphthalmic SurgeryRetinal AnatomyRetinal DegenerationRetinal DiseaseRetinal PathologyRetinal SurgeryRetinal Vascular DiseaseOcular Motor AbnormalitiesOculomotor Physiology
a patient on whom I operated for this more than twelve years ago. Previously to the operation he had headache without intermission for seven years, dating from typhoid, and he has had no headache since. But these operations are extremely tricky, and in higher heterophoria it is rather a responsibility to convert a comitant defect into a non-comitant one by operation. Here again, however, nature comes to the rescue and gradually restores more or less comitancy if a muscle is only tenderly dealt with by operation, on the principle of " reversion to organism," as we might call it.