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no guessing and no dodging movement of the head or book

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Fig. 6. Reading-bar
cropped from page
illustrating Priestly Smith. “On the Etiology and Educative Treatment of Convergent Strabismus. Being the Bowman Lecture, Delivered on Friday, June 10th, 1898.” Transactions of the Opthalmalogical Society of the United Kingdom 18 (1898) : 17-47
University of Chicago copy, digitized April 1, 2013

“The most convenient implement, I think, after various trials, is a thin strip of metal (Fig. 6) bent in two places at a right angle so that it can be held upon the book with a thumb or finger. It is steady in relation to the book, and can be moved easily up and down the page. The patient must be taught how to use it. When his fixing eye reaches that portion of the line which is hidden from it by the bar, he must use his other eye. There must be no guessing and no dodging movement of the head or book.... He will learn this in a day or two, if not at once. Soon he will be able to travel the line with only a slight hitch where he closes the better eye, and at last he will read smoothly by keeping both eyes open.”
pp 44-45
 

28 February 2014

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reading; Priestly Smith, “On the Etiology and Educative Treatment of Convergent Strabismus” (1898)