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Product Description Better Eyesight Without Glasses is not only the definitive source for the classic Bates Method, it is in itself a remarkable phenomenon. Dr. William H. Bates’s revolutionary and entirely commonsensical theory of self-taught improved eyesight has helped hundreds of thousands of people to triumph over normal defects of vision without the mechanical aid of eyeglasses. If you think that your eyesight could be made better by natural methods, you are right.After years of experimentation, Dr. Bates came to the conclusion that many people who wore glasses did not need them. He gradually and carefully developed a simple group of exercises for improving the ability of the eyes themselves to see, eliminating the tension caused by poor visual habits that are the major cause of bad eyesight. These exercises are based on the firm belief that it is the natural function of the eyes to see clearly and that anyone, child or adult, can learn to see better without glasses. Featuring an eye chart for improving your vision at home, The Bates Method for Better Eyesight Without Glasses will give you all the guidance you need for relaxed and improved vision. About the Author Dr. William H. Bates was a leading New York ophthalmologist, who edited Better Eyesight magazine and published The Cure of Imperfect Eyesight by Treatment without Glasses. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The Bates Method for Better Eyesight Without Glasses By William H. Bates Henry Holt and Company Copyright © 1971 Josephine V. Guffanti All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-0-8050-0241-6 Contents Title Page, I - The Theory and the Facts, II - Simultaneous Retinoscopy, III - The Truth About Accommodation, IV - The Variability of Refraction, V - What Glasses Do to Us, VI - The Cause and Treatment of Errors of Refraction, VII - Strain, VIII - Central Fixation, IX - Palming, X - Memory as an Aid to Vision, XI - Imagination as an Aid to Vision, XII - Shifting and Swinging, XIII - The Illusions of Sight, XIV - Vision Under Adverse Conditions, XV - Optimums and Pessimums, XVI - Presbyopia: Its Cause and Treatment, XVII - Squint and Amblyopia: Their Cause, XVIII - Squint and Amblyopia: Their Treatment, XIX - Floating Specks: Their Cause and Treatment, XX - Home Treatment, XXI - Treatment in Schools: Methods That Failed, XXII - Treatment in Schools: A Method That Succeeded, XXIII - Mind and Vision, XXIV - The Fundamental Principles of Treatment, Notes, Copyright Page, CHAPTER 1 The Theory and the Facts MOST writers on ophthalmology appear to believe that the last word about problems of refraction (the deviation of light waves as they enter the eye) has been spoken, and according to their theories the last word is a very depressing one. Almost everyone in these days suffers from some form of refractive error. Yet we are told that for these ills, which not only are inconvenient but often are distressing and dangerous, there is no cure, no palliative except those optic crutches known as eyeglasses, and, under modern conditions of life, practically no preventive measure. It is a well-known fact that the human body is not a perfect mechanism. Nature, in the evolution of the human tenement, has been guilty of some maladjustments. She has left behind, for instance, some troublesome bits of scaffolding, like the vermiform appendix. But nowhere is she supposed to have blundered so badly as in the construction of the eye. With one accord ophthalmologists tell us that the visual organ of man was never intended for the uses to which it is now put. Eons before there were any schools or printing presses, electric lights or moving pictures, the evolution of the eye was complete. In those days it served the needs of the human animal perfectly. Man was a hunter, a herdsman, a farmer, a fighter. He needed, we are told, mainly distant vision; and since the eye at rest is adjusted for distant vision, sight is supposed to have bee
