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In alternating squint the refraction of the emmetropic eye was taken, as determining it for insertion in the lower division of the statistics.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.

Still the elastic tension of the ocular muscles decides even here; if the interni preponderate, convergent squint results, when the myopic eye is used for near objects, the emmetropic for distant ones.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.

Both eyes are emmetropic and possess full visual acuteness.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.

Thus it happens frequently in divergent strabismus, when one eye is myopic, the other emmetropic.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.

Finally it must be added, that if the ophthalmoscopic estimation of refraction is to be exact, mydriasis by atropine is required, when, as is known, even emmetropic eyes may show a slight degree of hypermetropia.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.