[...Relief After Twenty-Five Years
While many persons are benefited by the accepted methods of treating
defects of vision, there is a minority of cases, known to every eye
specialist, which gets little or no help from them. These patients

How does one perform static retinoscopy using a direct retinoscope? Do
dilate the eyes w/ atropine, darken the lights, take the retinoscope,
stand 20' away, and try to neutralize the cat's-eye reflex w/ the
phoropter?

Hi all.  I am about to get my third progressive lens prescription
(will be trying a higher-end lens to hopefully alleviate some
distortion problems I have been having with my present Esilor Panamic
lenses).  The new frames I chose don't come with sunlight clip-ons, so

[...The Variability of the Refraction of the Eye
The theory that errors of refraction are due to permanent deformations
of the eyeball leads naturally to the conclusion, not only that errors
of refraction are permanent states, but that normal refraction is also

Why don't ophthalmologists and optometrists use the Landolt C chart,
instead of the Snellen chart? It's harder to cheat w/ the Landolt C.

I was reading a clinical trial "A randomized trial of atropine vs.
patching for treatment of moderate amblyopia in children", in the
March 2002 issue of Archives of Ophthalmology. My optometrist, Dr
Ryan, says that I need to be patched, but the study says that atropine

Could intravitreal injections of angiopoietin-1 or AcSKDP --
http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/cgi/reprint/101/8/3014.pdf--
be a possible treatment for ROP? Since ROP is caused presumably by the
iatrogenically high oxygen levels given to premature babies causing

What's "spherical equivalent refraction"? My --right eye--
prescription is -11.25 -2.50x178 --I believe this means that my lens
has a power of -11.25D at 178 degrees, and -13.75D at 88 degrees--,
and I heard of this term "spherical equivalent refraction", which

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I wear glasses all the time for short sightnedness, my last pair(s) came
from specsavers about 7 years ago. I can't remember which 2 of the 3 pairs I
still have that I got back then, but now I only use one of the cheap pairs
and they are getting worn.

My brother is 65 and has reached the point of needing cataract
surgery.  He is told he has severe astigmatism in his right eye, and
moderate astigmatism in the left.  I don't know what this means in
terms of diopters - he doesn't have his prescription.

My vision is deteriorating. Reading off of a computer display can help
but often adds problems. Is there software available that avoids some of
the problems I list below without requiring custom handling. In my case  
use Apple's Safari and Mail.

How can one tell if the inter-pupillary distance measured for one's
eyewear is incorrect?
When I turn my head all the way to the right and look towards the
left, certain straight-line images appear curved.

I have monocular double vision in both eyes.  It comes and goes fairly
quickly.  It lasts between a few hours and a couple days.  It occurs
in both eyes at the same time, but not to the same degree.  Sometimes
I see two images quite clearly focused, other times it can be multiple

This is how you do it.
http://www.hpb.gov.sg/web/nmpp/
You think they are kidding you?
Are they supporting Bates?