The first true PREVENTION study, but killed by the "powers that be".
http://www.central-fixation.com/bate...n-teachers.php
Enjoy,
On Nov 29, 3:07*pm, Lelouch Lamperouge <misa...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> * * * * ——
> * * * * My Experience in Treating Myopia
> * * * * By Irene Kundtz
> * * * * ——
> * * Having worn glasses for seven years and then, after a week's
> treatment, returning to school without them, not only caused great
> excitement amongst my school friends, but began my experience in
> trying to benefit others. It was then that I really realized what a
> wonderful thing it was to have perfect sight and never again wear
> glasses.
> * * My first patient was my chum Margaret, who roomed across the hall
> from me. She was now fifteen years old and had worn glasses ever since
> she was a small child. With her glasses off she could faintly see the
> large letter C. So I immediately taught her the correct way of
> palming. This not only interested her but my two room-mates also, for
> the blacker they imagined a cat or a period the better they could read
> in the dim light. After palming for at least ten minutes she looked up
> and was greatly surprised to see the large C much blacker and more
> distinct. Then I gave her a card with diamond type and taught her to
> swing the little black figure "1". This was something new for all
> three girls, and soon I found myself treating three patients instead
> of one. Swinging seemed rather difficult to them until they tried
> moving their heads from side to side, in this way getting a short,
> easy swing of a quarter of an inch or less. As our time was very
> limited at the dormitory I was able to work with Margaret for only a
> half hour, but in that short time she read three letters at a distance
> of fourteen feet.
> * * This was a great game for me, and when her first treatment was
> over she promised to come again the next evening, and a little earlier
> if possible.
> * * The news of Margaret being able to read three letters on the
> Snellen test card spread through the dormitory very rapidly, and the
> next morning before school I had two others girls ask if they might
> join the class. I was indeed glad to have them and could hardly wait
> until evening to resume my fascinating work.
> * * My two new patients were both fourteen years old and had worn
> glasses since the second grade. As my roommates were out visiting we
> were able to work for forty-five minutes in peace, and each became
> more anxious to beat the other, for with their glasses off they could
> read through the seventy line. While I taught them how to palm,
> Margaret was practicing swinging the figure "1" and working at the
> first letter in the following line, but nothing seemed to give her as
> much rest and benefit as palming. So after helping her she would palm
> again while I took care of the two other girls. At the end of forty-
> five minutes we had made quite a little progress, Margaret having read
> through the seventy line by palming alone, and the other two girls
> through two letters in the fifty line.
> * * Having succeeded in helping three of my girl friends, I next began
> to talk to some of my teachers who had worn glasses from ten to
> fifteen years. But teachers as a rule are very busy correcting papers,
> etc.; so not being able to treat them as well I lent them Doctor
> Bates' book called "Perfect Sight Without Glasses", and found to my
> great delight that it worked just as well, for it not only gave them a
> start but interested their friends also.
> * * Thus I continued giving treatments, sometimes for only fifteen or
> twenty minutes an evening, but every little helped and each treatment
> brought me more patients, and gave me more joy and courage to
> continue.
> * * After treating Margaret for a week, for she was my best patient
> and really made the most progress, she was able to read through the
> fifty line, and would have continued to improve more rapidly had she
> been able to go to school without her glasses.
> * * My experience in treating myopia lasted only two weeks, for at the
> end of that time examinations began and my evenings were occupied with
> studies. Helping and treating others was not only very interesting
> work, but was also benefiting me in continuing my daily practice.
> ——
> School Number
> Better Eyesight
> A monthly magazine devoted to the prevention and cure of imperfect
> sight without glasses
> Vol. V - August, 1921 - No. 2
> Copyright, 1921, by the Central Fixation Publishing Company
> Editor—W. H. Bates, M.D.
> Publisher—Central Fixation Publishing Co.
> Doctors are needed all over the world to cure people without glasses
> $2.00 per year, 20 cents per copy
> 300 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y.
> ——
>
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