Loss Of Sight Research Paper

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schedule of conduct that would return the eye to healthy normal ways and so to
perfect sight.
This was done by creating and developing certain exercises which re-educated
the eye muscles, brought them back into normal ways of movement and of rest,
educated them out of bad habits into good ones.
As his work began to attract attention from the results he obtained, a group of
students gathered around him and were taught the principles of normal sight with-
out the use of glasses.
This treatment of eyes without the use of glasses was applied to thousands of
people and every type of refractive error was treated with phenomenal success.
Today there are people practicing this method in many cities of the United States,
Canada, England, South …show more content…

This is no less true for people of middle age or even advanced years if the trou-
ble is taken soon after it appears. It is not age but the length of time that the error
has been present causing bad habits to form that is important, far more important
than the age of the person in whom it occurs.
In making the foregoing statements, it is well to say again that the treatment is
used for all eye troubles for which glasses are fitted and is not intended to apply to
loss of sight from degeneration.
In 1920, I began the studies which ultimately led me to Dr. Bates, with whom I
worked for many years, in fact, until I started my own practice. There I came to be-
lieve that a man who knew how to use his eyes properly would never need glasses
but could see clearly his whole life long. Because of the remarkable power of en-
durance the eye has, one could have young eyes at eighty or as long as he lives.
There I saw hundreds of people from two years old to ninety take off their glass-
es and attain normal sight. Thousands of people are doing it still, although Dr.
Bates himself is gone, most of them under practitioners of this new method,

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