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period extending from one month to two years, electrical stimulation always produced accommodation in the lens-less eye precisely to the same extent as in the eye which |
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The animal was exhibited at a meeting of the Ophthalmologi-cal Section of the American Medical Association, held in Atlan tic City, and was examined by a number of ophthalmologists present, all of whom testified that electrical stimulation of the eyeball produced accommodation, or myopic refraction, precisely as in the normal eye. |
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had a lens. The same experiment with the same result was performed on a number of other rabbits, on dogs and on fish. The obvious conclusion is that the lens is not a factor in accommodation. |
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