(1) A plank 2.5 metres x 9.5 centimetres x 4 centimetres, set on edge
and screwed to a table at either end.
(2) A head-rest 45 centimetres high, 35 centimetres broad and 15
centimetres deep. Attached to the centre of the lower strip of the
frame is a concave trough for the chin. Another trough, shaped to
fit over the vertex and with a strip of wood fastened to the front
of it for the forehead, slides up or down within the frame. The
attachment for the forehead can be moved and fixed at various positions
antero-posteriorly. By means of these devices the head can be securely
fixed in any position desired without discomfort to the subject.
In order to have the eyes always in the same plane and at a known
distance from the apparatus at the other end of the plank, a hole was
made in either side of the frame with its centre at a level of the
eyes. Extending through the vertical diameter of each hole is a fine
wire. Fitted into the inner portion of each hole is a cardboard tube 10
centimetres long: the inner end of each tube contains a vertical wire
so arranged that the four wires all fall into a plane at right angles
to the long direction of the plank. A mirror at the outer exit of
either hole enables the experimenter to align the tips of the subject's
corneæ with the wires.
Two parallel strips of wood are so attached to the "head-rest" end of
the plank--one below and the other above it--that they can be rotated
laterally upon the plank, with the bolt which secures them to it for a
centre of rotation. Opposite this centre, and attached to the anterior
surface of the upper parallel strip is a wire needle 25 centimetres
long. By means of a quadricircular piece of cardboard attached to the
plank at the end of the needle, the extent of rotation to the right
or left can be read off in degrees. (The point midway between the two
corneal tips when they are aligned with the wires is in the same axis
of rotation as the head-rest.)
A vertical iron rod 50 centimetres long extends upwards from either end
of the parallel strips, and upon these rods the frame of the head-rest
can be moved up or down by means of thumb-screws upon which it rests.
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