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WILLIAM G. SPILLER, M.D.

Arch Neurol Psychiatry. 1927;18(5):691-708.

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The case studied and reported in this paper was one in which normal associated lateral ocular movements were present, but, in addition, the patient had the power of maintaining fixation of either eye on an object directly in front of him while he slowly rotated the other eye widely outward and brought it back on command.

This condition has been described in various ways, and the entire literature is not extensive. With the exception of the brief reference to Gould's case, all the literature on the subject is in the German language. I have not found a single paper written in English or in French. The phenomenon has been regarded as exceedingly rare by all authors except Schwarz,¹ Levi,² Lechner,³ and possibly Bielschowsky,⁴ but what they describe is different in some respects from the movement that has interested me, although it is important. They describe movement . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Professor of Neurology in the University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA

Footnotes
Read before the Fifty-Third Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association, Atlantic City, N. J., May, 1927.