William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — January 1921
“ My eyesight is now steadily improving, and I intend to keep up the treatment until I have normal vision. I have given up the music for the time being – my eyes are more important, ten times more important – and the ridicule of my friends does not disturb me. As long as that old cataract continues to melt away nothing else matters. ”
William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — January 1921
“ A traumatic cataract is one which follows an injury (trauma) to the lens, the opacity being due largely to the formation of connective tissue in the pupil, and, in advance of the event, I should have pronounced the cure of such a condition impossible, although I had previously demonstrated that when patients practice central fixation connective tissue is absorbed in the optic nerve, retina and cornea. In the retina and optic nerve the circulation can be seen to improve as the connective tissue disappears, and I can only assume that this is the cause of its disappearance. ”
William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — January 1921
“ The general diabetic condition has not changed, and it is remarkable that when it is at its worst there is very little lowering of the vision. It is quite evident from the foregoing facts that the cause of cataract (other than traumatic) is strain, and I have found much evidence, both clinical and experimental, to the same effect. I have not been able to produce cataract in a normal eye by strain, but in a cataractous eye I have seen the opacity come and go according as the mind of the patient was relaxed or under strain. ”
