The clinical use of prisms; and the decentering of lenses (1893)
Maddox, Ernest Edmund, 1860-1933 · Bristol : J. Wright ; London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent · leaf 111
he effect produced in the lens, thatthe associated convergence exceeds all proportion,and produces a latent convergence. In hyper-metropia, the accommodative convergence, withoutcorrection of refraction, is, of course, greater as arule than in emmetropia. What conditions lessen the accommodative… … Fig. 46.—The conditions in a myope who has latent convergencein distant vision. shew how the diminution of accommodative con-vergence (id) in myopia is made up by greater reflex(and perhaps also voluntary) convergence (ao)y theamount of which is influenced by the condition ofthe tonic convergence…
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