The Bates Method for Better Eyesight without Glasses

by William H. Bates

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A updated edition of the book detailing the Bates method, a technique for correcting poor eyesight through exercise. The rationale behind the Bates method is that if you wear glasses or contact lenses, the chances are that you don't really need to. Prescription lenses act as a prop for the eye muscles so over time the eyes actually get weaker. In the long term, glasses will only ever weaken the eyes.… (more)

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Wikipedia: "The Bates method is an ineffective and potentially dangerous alternative therapy aimed at improving eyesight. Eye-care physician William Horatio Bates (1860–1931) held the erroneous belief that the extraocular muscles effected changes in focus and that "mental strain" caused abnormal action of these muscles; hence he believed that relieving such "strain" would cure defective vision."

ctsr | Feb 5, 2023 |

It feels somewhat reminiscent of the method used in The Music Man, and since he died in 1931, we know at least some scientific progress must have happened. (

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To the memory of the Pioneers of Ophthalmology this book is gratefully dedicated

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Most writers on ophthalmology appear to believe that the last word about problems of refraction (the deviation of light waves as they enter the eye) has been spoken, and according to their theories the last word is a very depressing one.

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A updated edition of the book detailing the Bates method, a technique for correcting poor eyesight through exercise. The rationale behind the Bates method is that if you wear glasses or contact lenses, the chances are that you don't really need to. Prescription lenses act as a prop for the eye muscles so over time the eyes actually get weaker. In the long term, glasses will only ever weaken the eyes.

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