Mannhardt also describes a similar case of intermittent squint; that of a girl aged eight years, in whom periodic convergent strabismus had begun four years previously, and for two years had occurred regularly every other day. On undecided vision the eyes were normally placed, but as soon as a near or distant object was fixed, a considerable deviation inwards of the left eye occurred. Under the covering hand both eyes deviated inwards equally. On the non-squinting days strabismus could in no way be produced even by fixation of the nearest objects, only under the covering hand a deviation inwards ensued. The squint could not be removed by quinine, but only by correction of the hypermetropia of 3 D. In any case, then, hypermetropia was one of the causes of the squint, but not the only one, as it cannot operate on alternate days only. Javal, who tries to make this case coincide with his theory, accepting an intermitting paresis of accommodation as the cause of squint, is manifestly in error, as Mannhardt particularly mentions that acuity of vision, refraction and accommodation remained perfectly equal on both days. If it is thus proved, that also in periodic inward squint the deviation may occur quite independently of the accommodation, on the other hand it is apparent, that if once a tendency to squint exists, a disproportionately strong convergence may very easily unite itself with the accommodation. Particularly of course in hypermetropes, who are able to fix nothing without using their accommodation, a remarkable fluctuation of the squint angle very frequently takes place. Sometimes the deviation is exceedingly strong, sometimes so slight that it seems to be absent. It is usually impossible to determine if it is really absent, for as soon as we single out a point for fixation to make the investigation feasible, strong deviation sets in. If in such cases we perfectly atropise both eyes, restore the attainable acuity of vision by neutralisation of the hypermetropia with convex glasses, and yet, nevertheless, as is generally the case, the customary strong convergence takes place on fixation of a distant object, there can be no talk of a strain on the accommodation; at most we can say, that the impulse for accommodation, habitually united with the intention to see distinctly, and the too strong convergence combined with it, also takes place, though by paralysis of the accommodation the participation of the same has become impossible. As accommodative squint those cases are chiefly indicated in which the deviation only takes place when there is a claim on the accommodation. In most cases of this kind hypermetropia is present. I have occasionally seen periodic accommodative squint with emmetropia of the fixing eye.