Dr. Bates – Inner Blindness https://www.iblindness.org Improve Your Eyesight and Ditch Your Glasses Thu, 05 Dec 2019 05:39:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.iblindness.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-icon-32x32.png Dr. Bates – Inner Blindness https://www.iblindness.org 32 32 The Radical Cure of Errors of Refraction https://www.iblindness.org/5376/radical-cure-of-errors-of-refraction/ https://www.iblindness.org/5376/radical-cure-of-errors-of-refraction/#comments Sun, 24 Nov 2019 18:02:05 +0000 https://www.iblindness.org/?p=5376

New York Medical Journal, May 8, 1915, Vol 101, No 19.

Introduction

In most textbooks on ophthalmology it is clearly stated that errors of refraction are incurable, and that relief of the symptoms can be obtained only with the aid … more...

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New York Medical Journal, Feb. 3, 1917, pp. 200-202.

A woman, fifty-four years of age, was first seen by me on May 9, 1915. Her son, who guided her into the office, stated that his mother had been “going blind” … more...

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Written sometime between 1920 and 1930. The copy I got a hold of was missing source info.

It is a truth that one can only imagine what one remembers. It is also a truth that one can remember only what … more...

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Originally printed in Hearst’s International, vol. 44, no. 3, Sept 1923, pp. 42-43 & 128-132.

The “editor’s note” below is part of the original article.

Editor’s Note: When Mr. Hapgood was in Berlin he was astonished to see that the … more...

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Originally printed in the American Journal of Clinical Medicine, July 1921, pp. 437-443.

The “editorial comment” paragraph below is by the editor of the journal above.

EDITORIAL COMMENT — To be able to do without one’s eyeglasses, to read and … more...

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Originally published in the Journal of the Allied Medical Associations of America, Oct 1921.
Read at 10th Annual Meeting, Allied Medical Associations of America, held in Atlantic City, June, 1921.

At this time I have to announce what I consider … more...

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Gloria Ginn, a longtime vision improvement teacher, put together this collection of questions and answers about reading that Bates published at the end of various issues of his Better Eyesight Magazine.

View the PDF below, or download it … more...

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Eye doctors know best. That’s what we’re taught. If there were a natural treatment for myopia, or other conditions, eye doctors would know about it and be offering it to everyone.

Would they? What happens when there’s a new discovery … more...

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These will give you a feel for where Dr. Bates did his pioneering work in helping patients get out of their glasses and learn to see.

Darrel mailed these to me a while back, several high quality photos printed on … more...

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Are you ready to believe you can see?

If not, that’s ok – Here’s what you can do next.

Plus, a little about having an instructor or coach help you.

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