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ORTHOPTIC TREATMENT.
During the past few years the practice of orthoptics, by
which is meant the treatment of binocular imbalance and
squint has become of great importance, and it is generally
recognised that a big advantage is to be gained by starting
treatment at the earliest possible age at which co-operation
with the patient may be obtained, at the same time making
allowances for the fact that prolonged exercises with young
children may cease to have much beneficial effect, and a
postponement of treatment may be the wiser course. Various
factors should be taken into account when considering treatment,
the mental capacity of a child as well as the psychological
effect of a squint being hardly less important than
the more technical considerations. Though a cure—by which
is meant normal vision with no imbalance and stereoscopic
vision (sense of perspective) is aimed at each time, in many
cases this is not obtained, either it is not possible or on the
other hand it may be economically impracticable, for it is
probably as well to aim at the greatest good for the greatest
number, in a Public Health or Hospital Clinic,