William Horatio Bates

Name: Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1921
Author: William Horatio Bates

Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1921

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“Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1921”, is a work by William Horatio Bates. It explores elements such as card, letter and test.

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1921

“ He is all the time looking at the Snellen test card instead of studying his lessons. He talks about it to the other children in the class, and he encourages them to practice reading it. He tells them that he feels good when he reads it. Makes his eyes feel better. Helps him to learn his lessons. He is impertinent because he persists brazenly in advising me, his teacher, to practice reading those fool letters which do not even spell a word and have no meaning whatever. I wish you would insist that he get glasses for his own eyes and make him stop taking glasses off the eyes of other children. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1921

“ You only make yourself uncomfortable by the strain, and it never benefits you. I then proceeded to have the pupils demonstrate some facts. I directed them to keep their attention fixed on the smallest, letter they could see from their seats, to stare at it, to try to see it better, to concentrate, to partly close their eyelids — in short, to do everything they could to improve their sight. I noted that the teacher, who had previously walked to the back of the room, was listening to what I was saying. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1921

“ The only way to overcome this difficulty completely is to get cured, but the practice you have described sometimes helps to bring out distant objects temporarily. Straining to see at the nearpoint may also improve your distance vision temporarily. One myopic patient, when she wished to recognize people across the street, used to strain to see her finger held close before her eyes and then look at the person she wished to see. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1921

“ Dr. Bates was struck dumb with amazement. He said that, although he had seen opacities of the cornea resulting from constitutional disease clear up, he had never before, in his thirty-six years of experience, seen any improvement in an opacity resulting from an injury, even after years of treatment. That encouraged me so much that I told the patient to palm again, and before she left the clinic that day her right eye had improved to 14/50. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1921

“ If no difference is apparent, rest the eyes by looking away, closing, or palming, and try again. In many cases, when one side has been imagined correctly, the whole letter will come out. If it does not, proceed to imagine the other sides as above directed. If, when all four sides have been imagined correctly, a letter does not come out, palm and repeat. One can even bring out a letter that one cannot see at all in this way. Look at a line of letters which cannot be seen, and imagine the top of the first letter to be straight. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1921

“ Better Eyesight, September 1921 A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE PREVENTION AND CURE OF IMPERFECT SIGHT WITHOUT GLASSES
HOW TO IMPROVE THE SIGHT BY MEANS OF THE IMAGINATION: No. 2 In a recent issue directions were given for improving the vision by the aid of the imagination. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1921

“ She is always so cross; her face gives me a pain." Then I took him back to the classroom and sent him to his seat. I asked the teacher if she could read the bottom line on the Snellen test card. She could not do so. Then I showed her an unfamiliar test card, which she saw even worse. ”

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William Horatio Bates, Better Eyesight Magazine — September 1921

“ In most cases, by employing the association test and showing the patient the connection between the letter and the unpleasant thought, they have become able to see letters which had been pessimums. No. 51 Main street, Orange, N.J.
STORIES FROM THE CLINIC ~ 19: A Trio of Difficult Cases By EMILY C. LIERMAN
MYOPIC and farsighted patients are numerous, and I always feel confident that I can in no time improve their sight; but I suffered a case of cold feet when Dr. ”

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