Better Eyesight: The Complete Magazines of William H. Bates
Better Eyesight: The Complete Magazines of William H. Bates Books
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Artists, teachers, army officers, housewives, elderly people, parents, and children with thought problems write about their experiences with the Bates Method and giving up their glasses in Better Eyesight. Major eye conditions (shortsightedness, astigmaticsm, foresight, presbyopia, amblyopia, strabismus, cataract, gluacome, loss of sight) are discussed by Bates, other opthalmologists, the medical community, and readers. The significance of this literature is both historical and immediate. For the first time, the connection between eyestrain to shoulder and neck pain, headaches, and other muscular tension is discussed.
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This book is an vital addition to Better Eyesight Without Glasses and Relearning to See.
Rating: 5 / 5
William Bates was a scientist, researcher, visionary, and a radical. In his magazines are presented a multitude of case histories about his patients. We get to hear the tales of a wide variety of individuals, their temperaments, and what techniques worked for them. The style is dated, but the essence of his teachings are timeless.
An invaluable resource in your ‘thought’ library. It’s large, but can be digested in bite size articles. A wonderful collection.
Rating: 5 / 5
I am amazed by how much this book has helped me. Bates’ principles really do work! I have only been reading the book for about a month, yet my eyesight is improving. I can’t wait until my next eye appointment so I can surprise my ophthamologist (who gave me stronger glasses at my last eye exam — they are now too strong for me to wear!).
Rating: 5 / 5
This books is more simpler to know then the other book by Thomas Quackenbush. This book is more matter-of-fact in that it clarifies the principles of better eyesight and how to improve on it. The Relearning to See book is fantastic but it’s more of a scientific academic fact kind of book. This book is more motivating as it gives case studies and proof that the method works. You can’t get this priceless in rank anywhere else. It is my attitude that this book is the best book out there on natural improvements of eyesight. If you have only one book to choose for eyesight. Get this one. It’s a legend in it’s own aptly.
Rating: 5 / 5
In his introduction the author refers to the contents of the Better Eyesight magazines as a treasure chest. Really this compilation is priceless! It is chock-full of absorbing in rank —articles by Dr. Bates, case studies and many testimonials from people of all ages and all walks of life — covering supposedly irreversible conditions such as nearsightedness, foresight, astigmatism, cataracts, glaucoma and many more. If you are not amazed by what you read in at least one case history, then you’d better have someone check you for a pulse. The book also confirms that Dr. Bates’ teachings had nothing to do with eye aerobics and everything to do with relearning how to RELAX the mind and the eyes for better thought and improved overall health.
Even though I’m not a novice at natural thought improvement (see Relearning to See review), this book has greatly inspired me. The moment I started reading Better Eyesight, it was like stepping back in time to get private advice from Dr. Bates in his clinic. It was also uncanny to read many unique observations so similar to my eye re-education experiences. I’m on the homeward stretch of my 20/20 goal (or keener!) and Better Eyesight has bolstered my motivation. It’s helped remind me to quickly recognize and right myself when I lapse into poor thought habits and my progress has surged.
Dr. Bates humbly stated that he had no external cure to improve eyesight. It was nature’s way of healing and he cited cases where people improved their thought with no knowledge of his teachings. (I know of two adults who despised their prescribed glasses as kids, quit wearing them, and their sight returned to normal.) But Dr. Bates found that most people, especially those who’d worn lenses for any part of time, needed to relearn the relaxed use of their eyes to have any opportunity of reversing locked-in strain and blur.
Dr. Bates appeared to have high scientific principles, yet knew the limitations of science and the dangers of submissive adherence to authoritative dogma. He once believed the orthodox teachings and it took him many years to reconcile their errors to his satisfaction. His findings were well documented and published in the medical journals and scientific literature of the day and report has it that went unchallenged. Instead Dr. Bates was ostracized and ridiculed in such a bigoted and arrogant manner. He seemed to take it all in stride with a sense of humor by interspersing his wit in many articles squarely aimed at the nay-sayers.
Better Eyesight also gives glimpses of Dr. Bates beyond the eye clinic. His ethics, values and philosophy towards industrialization, mass-education and modern medicine closely parallel views of more contemporary social critics such as author Ivan Illich. In Limits to Medicine — Medical Vengeance, Illich provides a definition from a medical dictionary of iatrogenic conditions or disorders. In essence, they are those caused by medical intervention. Progressive shortsightedness has to be the granddaddy of all iatrogenic disorders, mainly due to the prescribing of full-power compensating lenses, and not the genetic disorder falsely invented.
Another fascinating facet of Dr. Bates was his discovery of adrenaline, now a household word when we hear overpaid professional athletes on TV talk about their adrenaline rush. Yet sadly the benevolent work of improving thought naturally for which Dr. Bates dedicated his life is so small known and has been so grossly maligned. Thankfully his teaching methods and writings were preserved and have been edited and annotated by the author in this legacy. Hopefully it will help set the record honest and give Dr. Bates more widespread recognition that’s long overdue.
Maybe some future day when these teachings become mainstream principles a museum will house a chamber of horrors showing artifacts of the iatrogenic era. Animated lifelike figures in a “Blind Faith” section may possibly depict people straining to see through Coke-bottle glasses, poking bloodshot eyes to insert contact lenses and having corneas burned by lasers. Aghast parents will be at a loss to clarify to their children how so many people willingly paid to be maltreated in the name of progress.
Rating: 5 / 5