Neutralizing Cylinder Glasses as Test for Malingering
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Neutralizing Cylinder Glasses as Test for Malingering.
IT is not easy to outwit a malingerer clainming a reduction of his visual acuity to approximately the same extent in both eyes. Some suspicion is aroused if the examinee reads fluently the first three or four lines of the sight-test and suddenly stops, as if he has decided beforehand lhow far down he will read. A clever malingerer, who has a certain knowledge of the principles underlying our te...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1942
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.26.11.512