School Children at the Clinic

[...]

——
Stories from the Clinic
18: The School Children Again
By Emily C. Lierman
——
We have so many interesting cases among the children sent to us
from the schools to be fitted with glasses that one hardly knows where
to begin when trying to tell about them. Little Agnes, eight years
old, comes to my mind, not because she was more remarkable than a good
many others, but because she came recently. Her mother came with her,
and told me that Agnes suffered from frequent headaches and that for
the past year her teachers had been saying that she needed glasses, as
she had great difficulty in seeing the blackboard. The mother had
hesitated to take her to an oculist, however, as two of her children
were already wearing glasses and she did not want to see them on a
third.
I could easily see that Agnes was suffering, and when I tested her
eyes with the Snellen test card I found that her vision was very poor.
At fifteen feet she could not read more than the seventy line. This
was so surprising in so young a child that I thought at first she did
not know her letters; but when I tested her with pothooks she did no
better. I now showed her how to palm, and in a few moments she read
the bottom line. The mother was thrilled and said:
"My goodness! When I first entered this room my hope was gone. I
could think of nothing but glasses for my child. When she read the
card and I saw how bad her eyes were, I was convinced that there was
no escape for her. But now that I see her vision improved so quickly I
have hope indeed."
I told the mother that I was thrilled myself, and added that she
could help me to cure the child if she would.
"What I do for her here you can do for her at home," I said.
"Encourage her to rest her eyes. Nature requires rest for the eyes,
but your little girl, instead of closing her eyes when they are tired,
strains to keep them open."
The mother promised to do all she could, and as she was leaving
she said:
"God sent me here. I will send my two boys to be rid of their
glasses also."
The next clinic day Agnes brought with her her brother Peter, who
was wearing glasses for astigmatism and headaches. He was very
attentive while I treated Agnes, who told me that she had not been
having her usual headaches. Peter's vision I found to be 15/40, right
eye, and 15/15, left eye. After palming only a few minutes his right
eye improved to 15/15 and his left to 15/10. He was very happy when
told that he did not need glasses any more, and that I could cure him
during vacation. As children are cured very quickly when one helps the
other at home, I expect that Agnes and Peter will soon be reading
20/10, which is twice what the normal eye is expected to do.
Another recent patient was Mary, a colored girl, twelve years old.
She complained of such violent headaches that she could no longer
attend school and stayed in bed most of the time. The school nurse had
advised glasses, and she had come to get them. Mary kept her head
lowered much of the time, but when I was about to treat her she tried
to open one eye and look at me. The effort was so great that her face
became a mass of wrinkles. As the light seemed to distress her, I
decided to give her the light treatment, that is to focus the rays of
the sun on the upper part of her eyeballs with a burning glass. I
asked her to sit on a stool where the sun could shine on her eyes, but
when I tried to use the burning glass she was frightened to death. To
reassure her I asked a patient who had already had the treatment to
let me repeat it on her, and when Mary saw her enjoy the light bath
she readily submitted to it herself. Afterward her eyes opened wide
and I was able to test her sight. Her vision was 20/30, both eyes. I
showed her how to palm, and when, after ten minutes, she opened her
eyes, her pain was gone and her vision perfect. I was quite proud to
have accomplished so much in one treatment.
Two days later Mary came again, and with her came the school nurse
and a friend, both eager to hear more of the miracle that had been
worked on Mary. Could it be possible, the nurse asked, that the child
had been cured as quickly as she said? I was surprised myself at the
change in the patient's appearance. Her eyes were still wide open, and
the constant grin on her face made her almost unrecognizable as the
sad creature I had seen two days before. I told the nurse what had
been done for the child and how she could help the other children in
her school who had eye trouble. She came a few times more to watch our
methods, and told me that she was teaching all the children sent to
her for examination of their eyes to palm. This always relieved them,
to some extent, at once. The hard cases, however, she sent to us
without delay.
A very remarkable case still under treatment is that of a girl
with nystagmus, a condition in which the eyes vibrate from side to
side. The child is now so much improved that ordinarily her eyes are
normal, but when anything disturbs her the vibration returns. This
always happens, she tells me, when the teacher asks her a question,
and at the same time she loses her memory. But the teacher allows her
to cover her eyes to rest them, and in a few minutes the vibration
ceases and her memory improves. Before she came to the clinic, she
often became hysterical and was obliged to leave the classroom. Now
she is never troubled in this way.
One of the most puzzling cases I ever had was sent by the school
nurse for glasses. A patient who came from the same school told me
that she was stupid, and she certainly appeared to be so. I asked her
if she knew her letters, and in trying to reply she stuttered
painfully. I tried to reassure her by speaking as gently as I could
but without avail. I could not get her to answer intelligently. I
tried having her palm, but it did not help. I held the test card close
to her eyes, and asked her to point out certain letters as I named
them, but only in a few cases did she do this correctly. Completely
baffled I appealed to Dr. Bates. He asked the child to come to him and
touch a button on his coat, and she did so. He asked her to touch
another button, but she answered:
"I don't see them."
"Look down at your shoes," he said. "Do you see them?"
"No," she answered.
"Go over and put your finger on the door-knob," he said, and she
immediately did so.
"It is a case of hysterical blindness," the doctor said.
The child came for some time very regularly, and now reads 15/10
with both eyes. She has stopped stuttering, and has lost her
reputation for stupidity. She has become a sort of good samaritan in
her neighborhood, for every once in a while she brings with her some
little companion to be cured of imperfect sight. She never has any
doubts as to our capacity to do this, and so far we have never
disappointed her. I hope she never brings anyone who is beyond our
power to help, for I would be sorry to see that sublime faith which we
have inspired in her shattered.
Two of our patients graduated in June, and after the final
examination they told me that they had been greatly helped in these
tests by the memory of a swinging black period. One of them was told
by the principal that if she failed to pass it would not be because of
her stupidity, but because she refused to wear glasses. She gave him
Dr. Bates' book, and after that, though he watched her closely, he did
not say anything more about her eyes.
"I made up my mind to pass without the aid of glasses," she said,
"and put one over on the principal, and you bet I never lost sight of
my precious swinging period. The book has become a family treasure,"
she continued. "When one of us has a pain in head or eyes, out it
comes. It is a natural thing to see mother palming after her work is
done. She enjoys her evenings with us now, because palming rests her
and she does not get so sleepy."
The other graduate said: "I did not have to think of a black
period when the subject was easy, but when I had to answer questions
in the more difficult branches I certainly did find the period a
lifesaver. I know I would have failed without it."
——
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.
——

[...]

And the preventive second-opinion is:

http://myopiafree.i-see.org/soonicansee/index.html

Enjoy,



On Nov 30, 7:47*am, Lelouch Lamperouge <misa...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>
> * * * * ——
> * * * * Stories from the Clinic
> * * * * 18: The School Children Again
> * * * * By Emily C. Lierman
> * * * * ——
> * * We have so many interesting cases among the children sent to us
> from the schools to be fitted with glasses that one hardly knows where
> to begin when trying to tell about them. Little Agnes, eight years
> old, comes to my mind, not because she was more remarkable than a good
> many others, but because she came recently. Her mother came with her,
> and told me that Agnes suffered from frequent headaches and that for
> the past year her teachers had been saying that she needed glasses, as
> she had great difficulty in seeing the blackboard. The mother had
> hesitated to take her to an oculist, however, as two of her children
> were already wearing glasses and she did not want to see them on a
> third.
> * * I could easily see that Agnes was suffering, and when I tested her
> eyes with the Snellen test card I found that her vision was very poor.
> At fifteen feet she could not read more than the seventy line. This
> was so surprising in so young a child that I thought at first she did
> not know her letters; but when I tested her with pothooks she did no
> better. I now showed her how to palm, and in a few moments she read
> the bottom line. The mother was thrilled and said:
> * * "My goodness! When I first entered this room my hope was gone. I
> could think of nothing but glasses for my child. When she read the
> card and I saw how bad her eyes were, I was convinced that there was
> no escape for her. But now that I see her vision improved so quickly I
> have hope indeed."
> * * I told the mother that I was thrilled myself, and added that she
> could help me to cure the child if she would.
> * * "What I do for her here you can do for her at home," I said.
> "Encourage her to rest her eyes. Nature requires rest for the eyes,
> but your little girl, instead of closing her eyes when they are tired,
> strains to keep them open."
> * * The mother promised to do all she could, and as she was leaving
> she said:
> * * "God sent me here. I will send my two boys to be rid of their
> glasses also."
> * * The next clinic day Agnes brought with her her brother Peter, who
> was wearing glasses for astigmatism and headaches. He was very
> attentive while I treated Agnes, who told me that she had not been
> having her usual headaches. Peter's vision I found to be 15/40, right
> eye, and 15/15, left eye. After palming only a few minutes his right
> eye improved to 15/15 and his left to 15/10. He was very happy when
> told that he did not need glasses any more, and that I could cure him
> during vacation. As children are cured very quickly when one helps the
> other at home, I expect that Agnes and Peter will soon be reading
> 20/10, which is twice what the normal eye is expected to do.
> * * Another recent patient was Mary, a colored girl, twelve years old..
> She complained of such violent headaches that she could no longer
> attend school and stayed in bed most of the time. The school nurse had
> advised glasses, and she had come to get them. Mary kept her head
> lowered much of the time, but when I was about to treat her she tried
> to open one eye and look at me. The effort was so great that her face
> became a mass of wrinkles. As the light seemed to distress her, I
> decided to give her the light treatment, that is to focus the rays of
> the sun on the upper part of her eyeballs with a burning glass. I
> asked her to sit on a stool where the sun could shine on her eyes, but
> when I tried to use the burning glass she was frightened to death. To
> reassure her I asked a patient who had already had the treatment to
> let me repeat it on her, and when Mary saw her enjoy the light bath
> she readily submitted to it herself. Afterward her eyes opened wide
> and I was able to test her sight. Her vision was 20/30, both eyes. I
> showed her how to palm, and when, after ten minutes, she opened her
> eyes, her pain was gone and her vision perfect. I was quite proud to
> have accomplished so much in one treatment.
> * * Two days later Mary came again, and with her came the school nurse
> and a friend, both eager to hear more of the miracle that had been
> worked on Mary. Could it be possible, the nurse asked, that the child
> had been cured as quickly as she said? I was surprised myself at the
> change in the patient's appearance. Her eyes were still wide open, and
> the constant grin on her face made her almost unrecognizable as the
> sad creature I had seen two days before. I told the nurse what had
> been done for the child and how she could help the other children in
> her school who had eye trouble. She came a few times more to watch our
> methods, and told me that she was teaching all the children sent to
> her for examination of their eyes to palm. This always relieved them,
> to some extent, at once. The hard cases, however, she sent to us
> without delay.
> * * A very remarkable case still under treatment is that of a girl
> with nystagmus, a condition in which the eyes vibrate from side to
> side. The child is now so much improved that ordinarily her eyes are
> normal, but when anything disturbs her the vibration returns. This
> always happens, she tells me, when the teacher asks her a question,
> and at the same time she loses her memory. But the teacher allows her
> to cover her eyes to rest them, and in a few minutes the vibration
> ceases and her memory improves. Before she came to the clinic, she
> often became hysterical and was obliged to leave the classroom. Now
> she is never troubled in this way.
> * * One of the most puzzling cases I ever had was sent by the school
> nurse for glasses. A patient who came from the same school told me
> that she was stupid, and she certainly appeared to be so. I asked her
> if she knew her letters, and in trying to reply she stuttered
> painfully. I tried to reassure her by speaking as gently as I could
> but without avail. I could not get her to answer intelligently. I
> tried having her palm, but it did not help. I held the test card close
> to her eyes, and asked her to point out certain letters as I named
> them, but only in a few cases did she do this correctly. Completely
> baffled I appealed to Dr. Bates. He asked the child to come to him and
> touch a button on his coat, and she did so. He asked her to touch
> another button, but she answered:
> * * "I don't see them."
> * * "Look down at your shoes," he said. "Do you see them?"
> * * "No," she answered.
> * * "Go over and put your finger on the door-knob," he said, and she
> immediately did so.
> * * "It is a case of hysterical blindness," the doctor said.
> * * The child came for some time very regularly, and now reads 15/10
> with both eyes. She has stopped stuttering, and has lost her
> reputation for stupidity. She has become a sort of good samaritan in
> her neighborhood, for every once in a while she brings with her some
> little companion to be cured of imperfect sight. She never has any
> doubts as to our capacity to do this, and so far we have never
> disappointed her. I hope she never brings anyone who is beyond our
> power to help, for I would be sorry to see that sublime faith which we
> have inspired in her shattered.
> * * Two of our patients graduated in June, and after the final
> examination they told me that they had been greatly helped in these
> tests by the memory of a swinging black period. One of them was told
> by the principal that if she failed to pass it would not be because of
> her stupidity, but because she refused to wear glasses. She gave him
> Dr. Bates' book, and after that, though he watched her closely, he did
> not say anything more about her eyes.
> * * "I made up my mind to pass without the aid of glasses," she said,
> "and put one over on the principal, and you bet I never lost sight of
> my precious swinging period. The book has become a family treasure,"
> she continued. "When one of us has a pain in head or eyes, out it
> comes. It is a natural thing to see mother palming after her work is
> done. She enjoys her evenings with us now, because palming rests her
> and she does not get so sleepy."
> * * The other graduate said: "I did not have to think of a black
> period when the subject was easy, but when I had to answer questions
> in the more difficult branches I certainly did find the period a
> lifesaver. I know I would have failed without it."
> ——
> 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.
> ——
>
> [...]

Is prevention the best idea?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV0lm...eature=related

Enjoy,


On Nov 30, 7:47*am, Lelouch Lamperouge <misa...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>
> * * * * ——
> * * * * Stories from the Clinic
> * * * * 18: The School Children Again
> * * * * By Emily C. Lierman
> * * * * ——
> * * We have so many interesting cases among the children sent to us
> from the schools to be fitted with glasses that one hardly knows where
> to begin when trying to tell about them. Little Agnes, eight years
> old, comes to my mind, not because she was more remarkable than a good
> many others, but because she came recently. Her mother came with her,
> and told me that Agnes suffered from frequent headaches and that for
> the past year her teachers had been saying that she needed glasses, as
> she had great difficulty in seeing the blackboard. The mother had
> hesitated to take her to an oculist, however, as two of her children
> were already wearing glasses and she did not want to see them on a
> third.
> * * I could easily see that Agnes was suffering, and when I tested her
> eyes with the Snellen test card I found that her vision was very poor.
> At fifteen feet she could not read more than the seventy line. This
> was so surprising in so young a child that I thought at first she did
> not know her letters; but when I tested her with pothooks she did no
> better. I now showed her how to palm, and in a few moments she read
> the bottom line. The mother was thrilled and said:
> * * "My goodness! When I first entered this room my hope was gone. I
> could think of nothing but glasses for my child. When she read the
> card and I saw how bad her eyes were, I was convinced that there was
> no escape for her. But now that I see her vision improved so quickly I
> have hope indeed."
> * * I told the mother that I was thrilled myself, and added that she
> could help me to cure the child if she would.
> * * "What I do for her here you can do for her at home," I said.
> "Encourage her to rest her eyes. Nature requires rest for the eyes,
> but your little girl, instead of closing her eyes when they are tired,
> strains to keep them open."
> * * The mother promised to do all she could, and as she was leaving
> she said:
> * * "God sent me here. I will send my two boys to be rid of their
> glasses also."
> * * The next clinic day Agnes brought with her her brother Peter, who
> was wearing glasses for astigmatism and headaches. He was very
> attentive while I treated Agnes, who told me that she had not been
> having her usual headaches. Peter's vision I found to be 15/40, right
> eye, and 15/15, left eye. After palming only a few minutes his right
> eye improved to 15/15 and his left to 15/10. He was very happy when
> told that he did not need glasses any more, and that I could cure him
> during vacation. As children are cured very quickly when one helps the
> other at home, I expect that Agnes and Peter will soon be reading
> 20/10, which is twice what the normal eye is expected to do.
> * * Another recent patient was Mary, a colored girl, twelve years old..
> She complained of such violent headaches that she could no longer
> attend school and stayed in bed most of the time. The school nurse had
> advised glasses, and she had come to get them. Mary kept her head
> lowered much of the time, but when I was about to treat her she tried
> to open one eye and look at me. The effort was so great that her face
> became a mass of wrinkles. As the light seemed to distress her, I
> decided to give her the light treatment, that is to focus the rays of
> the sun on the upper part of her eyeballs with a burning glass. I
> asked her to sit on a stool where the sun could shine on her eyes, but
> when I tried to use the burning glass she was frightened to death. To
> reassure her I asked a patient who had already had the treatment to
> let me repeat it on her, and when Mary saw her enjoy the light bath
> she readily submitted to it herself. Afterward her eyes opened wide
> and I was able to test her sight. Her vision was 20/30, both eyes. I
> showed her how to palm, and when, after ten minutes, she opened her
> eyes, her pain was gone and her vision perfect. I was quite proud to
> have accomplished so much in one treatment.
> * * Two days later Mary came again, and with her came the school nurse
> and a friend, both eager to hear more of the miracle that had been
> worked on Mary. Could it be possible, the nurse asked, that the child
> had been cured as quickly as she said? I was surprised myself at the
> change in the patient's appearance. Her eyes were still wide open, and
> the constant grin on her face made her almost unrecognizable as the
> sad creature I had seen two days before. I told the nurse what had
> been done for the child and how she could help the other children in
> her school who had eye trouble. She came a few times more to watch our
> methods, and told me that she was teaching all the children sent to
> her for examination of their eyes to palm. This always relieved them,
> to some extent, at once. The hard cases, however, she sent to us
> without delay.
> * * A very remarkable case still under treatment is that of a girl
> with nystagmus, a condition in which the eyes vibrate from side to
> side. The child is now so much improved that ordinarily her eyes are
> normal, but when anything disturbs her the vibration returns. This
> always happens, she tells me, when the teacher asks her a question,
> and at the same time she loses her memory. But the teacher allows her
> to cover her eyes to rest them, and in a few minutes the vibration
> ceases and her memory improves. Before she came to the clinic, she
> often became hysterical and was obliged to leave the classroom. Now
> she is never troubled in this way.
> * * One of the most puzzling cases I ever had was sent by the school
> nurse for glasses. A patient who came from the same school told me
> that she was stupid, and she certainly appeared to be so. I asked her
> if she knew her letters, and in trying to reply she stuttered
> painfully. I tried to reassure her by speaking as gently as I could
> but without avail. I could not get her to answer intelligently. I
> tried having her palm, but it did not help. I held the test card close
> to her eyes, and asked her to point out certain letters as I named
> them, but only in a few cases did she do this correctly. Completely
> baffled I appealed to Dr. Bates. He asked the child to come to him and
> touch a button on his coat, and she did so. He asked her to touch
> another button, but she answered:
> * * "I don't see them."
> * * "Look down at your shoes," he said. "Do you see them?"
> * * "No," she answered.
> * * "Go over and put your finger on the door-knob," he said, and she
> immediately did so.
> * * "It is a case of hysterical blindness," the doctor said.
> * * The child came for some time very regularly, and now reads 15/10
> with both eyes. She has stopped stuttering, and has lost her
> reputation for stupidity. She has become a sort of good samaritan in
> her neighborhood, for every once in a while she brings with her some
> little companion to be cured of imperfect sight. She never has any
> doubts as to our capacity to do this, and so far we have never
> disappointed her. I hope she never brings anyone who is beyond our
> power to help, for I would be sorry to see that sublime faith which we
> have inspired in her shattered.
> * * Two of our patients graduated in June, and after the final
> examination they told me that they had been greatly helped in these
> tests by the memory of a swinging black period. One of them was told
> by the principal that if she failed to pass it would not be because of
> her stupidity, but because she refused to wear glasses. She gave him
> Dr. Bates' book, and after that, though he watched her closely, he did
> not say anything more about her eyes.
> * * "I made up my mind to pass without the aid of glasses," she said,
> "and put one over on the principal, and you bet I never lost sight of
> my precious swinging period. The book has become a family treasure,"
> she continued. "When one of us has a pain in head or eyes, out it
> comes. It is a natural thing to see mother palming after her work is
> done. She enjoys her evenings with us now, because palming rests her
> and she does not get so sleepy."
> * * The other graduate said: "I did not have to think of a black
> period when the subject was easy, but when I had to answer questions
> in the more difficult branches I certainly did find the period a
> lifesaver. I know I would have failed without it."
> ——
> 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.
> ——
>
> [...]

The second-opinion on the effect of an over-prescribed minus on the
eye.

http://www.chinamyopia.org/


On Nov 30, 7:47*am, Lelouch Lamperouge <misa...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>
> * * * * ——
> * * * * Stories from the Clinic
> * * * * 18: The School Children Again
> * * * * By Emily C. Lierman
> * * * * ——
> * * We have so many interesting cases among the children sent to us
> from the schools to be fitted with glasses that one hardly knows where
> to begin when trying to tell about them. Little Agnes, eight years
> old, comes to my mind, not because she was more remarkable than a good
> many others, but because she came recently. Her mother came with her,
> and told me that Agnes suffered from frequent headaches and that for
> the past year her teachers had been saying that she needed glasses, as
> she had great difficulty in seeing the blackboard. The mother had
> hesitated to take her to an oculist, however, as two of her children
> were already wearing glasses and she did not want to see them on a
> third.
> * * I could easily see that Agnes was suffering, and when I tested her
> eyes with the Snellen test card I found that her vision was very poor.
> At fifteen feet she could not read more than the seventy line. This
> was so surprising in so young a child that I thought at first she did
> not know her letters; but when I tested her with pothooks she did no
> better. I now showed her how to palm, and in a few moments she read
> the bottom line. The mother was thrilled and said:
> * * "My goodness! When I first entered this room my hope was gone. I
> could think of nothing but glasses for my child. When she read the
> card and I saw how bad her eyes were, I was convinced that there was
> no escape for her. But now that I see her vision improved so quickly I
> have hope indeed."
> * * I told the mother that I was thrilled myself, and added that she
> could help me to cure the child if she would.
> * * "What I do for her here you can do for her at home," I said.
> "Encourage her to rest her eyes. Nature requires rest for the eyes,
> but your little girl, instead of closing her eyes when they are tired,
> strains to keep them open."
> * * The mother promised to do all she could, and as she was leaving
> she said:
> * * "God sent me here. I will send my two boys to be rid of their
> glasses also."
> * * The next clinic day Agnes brought with her her brother Peter, who
> was wearing glasses for astigmatism and headaches. He was very
> attentive while I treated Agnes, who told me that she had not been
> having her usual headaches. Peter's vision I found to be 15/40, right
> eye, and 15/15, left eye. After palming only a few minutes his right
> eye improved to 15/15 and his left to 15/10. He was very happy when
> told that he did not need glasses any more, and that I could cure him
> during vacation. As children are cured very quickly when one helps the
> other at home, I expect that Agnes and Peter will soon be reading
> 20/10, which is twice what the normal eye is expected to do.
> * * Another recent patient was Mary, a colored girl, twelve years old..
> She complained of such violent headaches that she could no longer
> attend school and stayed in bed most of the time. The school nurse had
> advised glasses, and she had come to get them. Mary kept her head
> lowered much of the time, but when I was about to treat her she tried
> to open one eye and look at me. The effort was so great that her face
> became a mass of wrinkles. As the light seemed to distress her, I
> decided to give her the light treatment, that is to focus the rays of
> the sun on the upper part of her eyeballs with a burning glass. I
> asked her to sit on a stool where the sun could shine on her eyes, but
> when I tried to use the burning glass she was frightened to death. To
> reassure her I asked a patient who had already had the treatment to
> let me repeat it on her, and when Mary saw her enjoy the light bath
> she readily submitted to it herself. Afterward her eyes opened wide
> and I was able to test her sight. Her vision was 20/30, both eyes. I
> showed her how to palm, and when, after ten minutes, she opened her
> eyes, her pain was gone and her vision perfect. I was quite proud to
> have accomplished so much in one treatment.
> * * Two days later Mary came again, and with her came the school nurse
> and a friend, both eager to hear more of the miracle that had been
> worked on Mary. Could it be possible, the nurse asked, that the child
> had been cured as quickly as she said? I was surprised myself at the
> change in the patient's appearance. Her eyes were still wide open, and
> the constant grin on her face made her almost unrecognizable as the
> sad creature I had seen two days before. I told the nurse what had
> been done for the child and how she could help the other children in
> her school who had eye trouble. She came a few times more to watch our
> methods, and told me that she was teaching all the children sent to
> her for examination of their eyes to palm. This always relieved them,
> to some extent, at once. The hard cases, however, she sent to us
> without delay.
> * * A very remarkable case still under treatment is that of a girl
> with nystagmus, a condition in which the eyes vibrate from side to
> side. The child is now so much improved that ordinarily her eyes are
> normal, but when anything disturbs her the vibration returns. This
> always happens, she tells me, when the teacher asks her a question,
> and at the same time she loses her memory. But the teacher allows her
> to cover her eyes to rest them, and in a few minutes the vibration
> ceases and her memory improves. Before she came to the clinic, she
> often became hysterical and was obliged to leave the classroom. Now
> she is never troubled in this way.
> * * One of the most puzzling cases I ever had was sent by the school
> nurse for glasses. A patient who came from the same school told me
> that she was stupid, and she certainly appeared to be so. I asked her
> if she knew her letters, and in trying to reply she stuttered
> painfully. I tried to reassure her by speaking as gently as I could
> but without avail. I could not get her to answer intelligently. I
> tried having her palm, but it did not help. I held the test card close
> to her eyes, and asked her to point out certain letters as I named
> them, but only in a few cases did she do this correctly. Completely
> baffled I appealed to Dr. Bates. He asked the child to come to him and
> touch a button on his coat, and she did so. He asked her to touch
> another button, but she answered:
> * * "I don't see them."
> * * "Look down at your shoes," he said. "Do you see them?"
> * * "No," she answered.
> * * "Go over and put your finger on the door-knob," he said, and she
> immediately did so.
> * * "It is a case of hysterical blindness," the doctor said.
> * * The child came for some time very regularly, and now reads 15/10
> with both eyes. She has stopped stuttering, and has lost her
> reputation for stupidity. She has become a sort of good samaritan in
> her neighborhood, for every once in a while she brings with her some
> little companion to be cured of imperfect sight. She never has any
> doubts as to our capacity to do this, and so far we have never
> disappointed her. I hope she never brings anyone who is beyond our
> power to help, for I would be sorry to see that sublime faith which we
> have inspired in her shattered.
> * * Two of our patients graduated in June, and after the final
> examination they told me that they had been greatly helped in these
> tests by the memory of a swinging black period. One of them was told
> by the principal that if she failed to pass it would not be because of
> her stupidity, but because she refused to wear glasses. She gave him
> Dr. Bates' book, and after that, though he watched her closely, he did
> not say anything more about her eyes.
> * * "I made up my mind to pass without the aid of glasses," she said,
> "and put one over on the principal, and you bet I never lost sight of
> my precious swinging period. The book has become a family treasure,"
> she continued. "When one of us has a pain in head or eyes, out it
> comes. It is a natural thing to see mother palming after her work is
> done. She enjoys her evenings with us now, because palming rests her
> and she does not get so sleepy."
> * * The other graduate said: "I did not have to think of a black
> period when the subject was easy, but when I had to answer questions
> in the more difficult branches I certainly did find the period a
> lifesaver. I know I would have failed without it."
> ——
> 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.
> ——
>
> [...]

On Nov 30, 5:29*pm, Otis <otisbr...@embarqmail.com> wrote:
> Is prevention the best idea?

Sure.

Anything you know of that has been proven both safe and effective?

You've certainly never shown us anything.

Also, perhaps you should stay away from threads that reference
children.

Could invoke a TRO, Uncle Otie.

On Nov 30, 5:33*pm, Otis <otisbr...@embarqmail.com> wrote:
> The second-opinion on the effect of an over-prescribed minus on the
> eye.

How ARE his kids doing?

I'm guessing ... myopic ... like your niece, Joy -- the results of
YOUR failed experiment.

Also ... in re: this "second-opinion" crap: we're all still waiting
for you to present your First Fact.