William Horatio Bates

Name: Better Eyesight Magazine — October 1920
Author: William Horatio Bates

Better Eyesight Magazine — October 1920

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“Better Eyesight Magazine — October 1920”, is a work by William Horatio Bates. It explores elements such as glasses, Risley and myopic astigmatism.

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — October 1920

“ It was found impossible to raise an army with even half normal vision in one eye, and in order to get the number of soldiers required it was necessary to accept for general service men whose vision could be brought up to half normal with glasses.2
Such figures as the foregoing, terrible as they are, by no means exhaust the subject. In fact they are only the beginning.
Errors of refraction are so common that we have learned to take them lightly. They are usually reckoned among minor physical defects, and the average lay person has no idea of their real character. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — October 1920

“ The condition known as conus in which the choroid, or middle coat of the eye, is destroyed in the neighborhood of the optic nerve exposing the white outer coat (sclera) and forming first a crescent and later even a complete circle is commonly regarded as one of the symptoms of myopia and attributed to the tension resulting from the lengthening of the globe, but Risley's statistics show that while it is somewhat more common in this state of refraction than in hypermetropia it is by no means peculiar to it. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — October 1920

“ It is well known, of course, that they sometimes produce very serious nervous conditions, but the fact that they also lead to all sorts of eye diseases is known only to specialists, and not fully appreciated even by them. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — October 1920

“ From the foregoing facts it will be seen that in the condition of the eyesight of our people we have a health problem, an educational problem, and a military problem, of the first magnitude, and one would think that if any method of either prevention or cure that was even tolerably successful had been found it would immediately be put into general use. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — October 1920

“ About twenty-five years ago a patient came to the New York Eye Infirmary with well-marked atrophy of the optic nerve. According to all that we know of the laws of pathology he should have been totally blind; yet his vision was normal. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — October 1920

“ If she continues to practice the palming, which she now forgets sometimes, I have no doubt that she will, in time, obtain normal vision. She now sees the largest letter on the card twenty feet away, and reads the headlines in the newspapers. Recently Dr. Bates examined her eyes with the ophthalmoscope, and found the appearance of the optic nerve very much improved, more blood-vessels being visible in the papilla, or head of the nerve. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — October 1920

“ If this tendency to strain can be overcome, the vision is always improved, and, if the practice of viewing the pictures is continued long enough, nearsight, astigmatism and other troubles are cured.
If your sight is imperfect, therefore, you will find it an advantage to go to the movies frequently and learn to look at the pictures without strain. If they hurt your eyes, look away to the dark for a while, then look at a corner of the picture ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — October 1920

“ By making the patient more comfortable glasses do often improve his mental condition, but since they cannot relieve the mental strain that underlies the visual one, they cannot improve it to normal and by confirming it in a bad habit they may make it worse. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — October 1920

“ My own experience is that errors of refraction are always accompanied by some organic change. It may be only a slight congestion, but this may be sufficient to lower the vision.
By wearing glasses, avoiding poor lights and limiting the use of the eyes for near work, it is supposed that we can do something to prevent the development of these organic diseases and to check their progress ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — October 1920

“ Better Eyesight, October 1920 A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE PREVENTION AND CURE OF IMPERFECT SIGHT WITHOUT GLASSES
GO TO THE MOVIES Cinematograph pictures are commonly supposed to be very injurious to the eyes, and it is a fact that they often cause much discomfort and lowering of vision. They can, however, be made a means of improving the sight. When they hurt the eyes it is because the subject strains to see them. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — October 1920

“ Children can be treated as soon as they are able to talk. Any small object can be used for eye training, and in the case of children who do not know their letters, kindergarten and Montessori equipment is often useful. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — October 1920

“ If this does not help, try palming for five minutes or longer. Dodge the pain, in short, and prevent the eyestrain by constant shifting, or by palming.
If you become able to look at the movies without discomfort, nothing else will bother you. ”

William Horatio Bates

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