Note 98 — Chapter XIX
Reading edition
It seems likely that the strains in the recti muscles have something to do with the vacillating judgment in these atropin cases. The internal recti contract whenever we accommodate. They squint and produce double vision when the innervation for accommodation is excessive. To see singly, when straining the atropinized accommodation, the contraction of our internal recti must be neutralized by a correspondingly excessive contraction of the external recti. But this is a sign of the object's recession, etc.