Psychiatry in Africa

SIR,-It is sometimes useful to determine whether a person is naturally rightor left-handed, and the following simple test, noted many years ago in a book on shooting, seems little known. The person points with a finger, quickly, at a suitable slim object, and then at once, without any change of position, closes one eye to see if the finger is " on " and then opens it and closes the other. One eye wins at this test repeatedly and that is the dominant eye. Useful if shooting, the test can be useful in medicine if, as seems to be the case, dominant eye goes with dominant hand.I am, etc.,