Incipient Cataract Relieved

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Incipient Cataract Relieved

By C. L. Steenson, M.D.
New York.
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This patient when first seen had a vision of 20/200 in each eye, and
was wearing, for distant vision, the following glasses: right eye,
concave 6.00 D. S. combined with 1.00 D. C., 90 degrees; left eye,
10.00 D. S. combined with 1.00 D.C., 60 degrees. Owing to the presence
of incipient cataract in each eye these lenses improved his vision
only 20/50 in the right eye and 20/100 in the left. For reading his
glasses were three diopters weaker. He now has flashes of normal
vision. He was helped most by the use of his imagination.
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Since boyhood—I am now sixty-five—I have had myopia and astigmatism,
for the correction of which I have worn glasses and spectacles. About
two years ago cataract developed in my right eye, and a few months
later in my left eye. Both were in mild degree, but still bad enough
to seriously obscure the field of vision. I had previously been
annoyed by vitreous opacities which made little black spots dance in
the field of vision. I also suffered from frequent severe headaches.
My glasses were often changed without much relief.

About November 1st of this year (1920) I consulted Dr. Bates, of whom
I had heard much and favorably. His methods of treatment seemed
exceedingly rational, and he gave me great hopes of getting rid of my
eye troubles. First of all he made me discard my glasses, which, at
first, seemed rather hard, but to which I have gradually become
reconciled. Through what I would call a system of progressive
education of sight, I have now almost got rid of the myopia, the
vitreous opacities do not bother me anymore, and, apparently, the
cataracts are disappearing by degrees. The headaches have also
disappeared. I have resumed, to a great extent, the literary and
research work on which I have been engaged since my retirement from
active practice, and I have no doubt that, ultimately, I shall be in
possession of full visual power. Upon my future progress I will report
at a later date.
No. 122 West Ninety-ninth Street
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Cataract Number
Better Eyesight
A monthly magazine devoted to the prevention and cure of imperfect
sight without glasses
Copyright, 1921, by the Central Fixation Publishing Company
Editor—W. H. Bates, M.D.
Publisher—Central Fixation Publishing Co.
$2.00 per year, 20 cents per copy
342 West 42nd Street, New York, N. Y.
Vol. IV - January 1921 - No. 1
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