Hermann M. Burian

Absence of Spontaneous Head Tilt in Superior Oblique Muscle Palsy

We used the head-tilt test--based on an imbalance between the function of a paretic superior oblique muscle and its homonymous superior rectus muscle, rather than on an anomaly of cycloversion-to test three patients with superior oblique muscle palsies. Spontaneous ocular torticollis was absent if a patient had poor vision in one eye or if his vertical fusional amplitudes were of such magnitude that he was able to overcome his vertical deviation in all positions of gaze. These latter instances, though rare, may be more common than reports indicate.

Georges De La Tour and the Overaction of the Superior Oblique Muscle

From the Department of Ophthalmology, Univerxad sity of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Reprint requests to Hermann M. Burian, M.D., Department of Ophthalmology, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. recumbent St. Sebastian, being treated by St. Irene. It was a night piece with the light coming from torches to the left and above, forming successive picture planes, giving an almost cubist appearance. I was very much intrigued by de La Tour but could not find anything about him in the books at my disposal, and the art history students and instructors from whom I sought information shrugged him off as a minor manierist. This did not deter me from searching for his paintings on my various travels, and

Introductory Remarks by Honored Guest

A year or so ago my friend Jerry Pearlman asked me whether I would be willing to say a few words to set the stage for this Symposium. Not being able to decline any request of Jerry’s, I accepted with pleasure. But you will realize my somewhat anxious surprise when a circular letter appeared a couple of months ago, stating that I had accepted to be the honored guest—a distinction of which I knew nothing. Of course, I am very grateful to Jerry, with whom I spent a few happy years in Iowa, that he wanted to single me out in this fashion, but I am also keenly aware that I deserve this honor infinitely less than many another person present here.