On some forms of headache / by R. H. Elliot.

  • Robert Elliot
Date:
[1907]
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    trouble. Likewise a marked strabismus is not easily overlooked, and will drive even an ignor- ant person to seek medical relief, with the key of tbe trouble as it were in her or his hands. Strange as it at first sight may seem, these marked cases of ocular defect are not always productive of headache. The reasons for this are not however hard to find. Lastly, I come to the class of cases of which I wish to speak to you to-day, viz., the lesser or latent errors of the intra or extra ocular mechanism, which may lead to chronic asthenopic symptoms. It very frequently happens to me to meet with such cases in winch able and well-known medical men have exhausted the whole battery of their medical arraentarium, before it has occurred to them to think that possibly the patient's whole trouble lies in his or her eyes. Again I meet with cases, such as a medical man here present recently sent me, in which the patients have steadily rejected the advice to obtain an expert opinion on the condition of their refraction on the ground that they could see as well as any one else, and therefore it could not be their eyes which were at fault. It would be beside my present purpose to enter into a detailed description of the anatomi- cal arrangements of the intrinsic or extrinsic musculature of the eyes, but I may be permit- ted to recall a few simple facts to your memory. The external and internal recti are respective- ly pure abductors and adductors. The superior and inferior recti beside elevating or depressing the eyes are adductors ; whilst the two obliques are subsidiary abductors. The superior recti and the inferior obliques elevate the eyes, whilst the inferior recti and the superior obliques are depressors.
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