William Horatio Bates

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

Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1920

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“Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1920”, is a work by William Horatio Bates. It explores elements such as eyestrain, vision and sight.

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1920

“ If one's memory and imagination are imperfect, they can be improved by consciously making them worse than they arc. Persons with imperfect sight never remember or imagine the letters on the test card as perfectly black and distinct, but to imagine them as grey and clouds is very difficult, or even impossible, and when a patient has done it, or tried to do it, he may become able to avoid the unconscious strain which has prevented him front forming mental pictures as black and distinct as the reality.
To make imperfect sight worse is always more difficult than to lower normal vision. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1920

“ When they demonstrate by increasing their eccentric fixation that trying to see objects not regarded lowers the vision, they may stop trying to do the same thing unconsciously.
What is true of the sight is also true of the imagination and memory. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1920

“ After I had learned to "palm," I learned to "swing.” The reason I strained my eyes so when looking at the card was that I stared at one place. So by imagining the letter was swinging like a pendulum, I moved my eyes instead of staring as I had done before. At first the swing was a long one, but after practicing for some weeks, I began getting it shorter until it was only half an inch on each side of the letter. The short swing was more difficult to do than the long one, but it helped more in the end. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1920

“ Even the memory or imagination of fatigue is accompanied by the production of eyestrain and imperfect sight, while the memory of perfect sight will relieve both eyestrain and fatigue. Sleepiness is a common symptom of habitual eyestrain, and when the sight improves the need for sleep is often markedly reduced.
One patient reports that after gaining normal sight without glasses she was able to get on comfortably with seven hours sleep, whereas she had formerly not been able to avoid continual sleepiness and yawning even on nine and ten hours. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1920

“ Better Eyesight, September 1920 A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE PREVENTION AND CURE OF IMPERFECT SIGHT WITHOUT GLASSES
MAKE YOUR SIGHT WORSE Strange as it may seem there is no better way of improving the sight than by making it worse. To see things worse when one is already seeing them badly requires mental control of a degree greater than that required to improve the sight. The importance of these facts is very great. When patients become able to lower their vision by conscious staring, they become better able to avoid unconscious staring. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1920

“ In other words, to make a letter which already appears grey and indistinct noticeably more cloudy is harder than to blur a letter seen distinctly. To make an imperfect mental picture worse is harder than to blur a perfect one. Both practices require much effort, much hard disagreeable work; but they always, when successful, improve the memory, imagination and vision.
EXPERIENCES WITH CENTRAL FIXATION By M. H. Stuart, M.D. Moultrie, Ga. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1920

“ This is a fact, however: that eyestrain has always been demonstrated when fatigue was present, and that fatigue has always been relieved when eyestrain was relieved. Perfect sight is perfect rest, and cannot coexist with fatigue. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1920

“ When he learned how to relax by the aid of the memory, imagination, shifting, swinging and palming, the trouble gradually became less, and now he can stay awake at all times and in all places where people are supposed to stay awake.
STORIES FROM THE CLINIC ~ 7: The Woman with Asthma By Emily C. Lierman
When eyestrain is relieved all other strain is relieved, and therefore patients relieved of eyestrain are often relieved of many other symptoms. Asthma belongs to a large class of diseases with symptoms which may result front nervous disturbances instead of from organic changes. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1920

“ I suggested that he palm at least six times a day for five minutes, and on the second day he was greatly improved, reading with the right eye 20/80, left 20/40. On the third day he read with the right eye 20/40, left 20/30, an increase of vision in the right eye of 200 per cent, and in the left of 100 per cent. He is now at work, and when, occasionally, he has to lay off, it is not on account of any trouble with his eyes, but because of weakness in his knees. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1920

“ Another method of gaining relaxation that I have resorted to is to look at an imaginary period in any dark distant object. In this pine-woods district there are thousands or stumps, many of which have been burned and blackened. ”

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