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TEST CARD Fifty Feet. Thirty Feet. CG Twenty Feet. F E P Fifteen Feet. LZOD Ten Feet. CNGAB Five Feet. H A Q 0 E Three Feet. Z U K L T P A Two Feet. B R o eGO N r-. THE MAIN POINTS of BETTERSIGHTWITHOUTGLASSES By Harry Benjamin See how far away you can see the letters on the bottom line without strain or effort. The exercisesfor improving memory and imagination and central fixation can best be performed with the aid of this Test Card. Wear your glasses as little as possible. The best results are obtained when they are discarded altogether. The main points of the natural treatment of defective vision are:- Palming, swinging, blinking, splashing the eyes with cold water, and exposing them closed to the sun's rays. (These are known as Aids to Relaxation.) Cultivation of memory and imagination. central fixation, and careful and methodical reading. (These are known as Aids to Vision.) Theeye muscleexercises, the remedialneck exer cises,andlast,butbynomeansleast.asensiblediet. Remember that glasses. belp you to see, but donot naprove vision. They really binder it and make your disabilityworse in tune. The oDJyreRJ ....,. to regein normaJ rilioD l8 by t.be a.ppUcatiODot the method..outllDe<.1a.bove,and detailedID..BetterBllhtwithoator.._·' l'ublislwd liy HEALTH FOH ALL Publishing Co., Gateway House, Bedford Park. Croydon, Surrey, for use in conjunction with the book "BetterSightWithoutGlusscsv-c-Prlcc~/(jnet. (Copyright) BETTER SIGHT WITHOUT GLASSES BY HARRY BEN]AMIN, N.D. Member, British Naturopathic and OsteopathicAssooiaton Author 01 Everybody's Guide to Nature Cure You,. Diet in Health and Disease Adventu,.e in Living-Autobiog,.aphy of a Myop, Common-sense Vegetarianism Unorlhodox Healing versus MedicalScience How to Become 100% Healthy BasicSelf-Knowledge. Etc_ HEALTH FOR ALL PUBLISHING COMPANY GATEWAY ROUSE, BEDFORD PARK, CROYDON, SURREY FirstImpression (2,000) 1929 Second Impyession (2,000) 1930 Thiyd lmpyession (2,000) 1930 Fourth.Impression (2,000) 1931 FifthImpression (2,000) 1931 Sixth Impression (2,000) 1932 SeventhImpression. (2,000) 1932 EighthImpression (2,000) 1933 Ninth Impyession (5,000) 1933 Tenth Impression (5,000) 1934 EleventhImpression (5,000) 1935 Twelfth Impression (5,000) 1936 ThirteenthImpression (5,000) 1937 Fourteenth.Impyession (FullyRevised) (5,000) 1938 Fifteenth Impression . (5,000) 1938 Sixteenth Impression . (5,000) 1939 SeventeenthImpression(Revised) (5,000) 1941 EighteenthImpression (5,000) 1941 Nineteenth Impression (5,000) 1942 Twentieth Impression (10,000) 1943 Twenty-firstImpression (10,000) 1943 Twenty-secondImpressiow (10,000) 1944 Twenty-thirdImpnssion (10,000) 1944 Twenty-fourth Impression (10,000) 1945 Twenty-fifth Impression .. (10,000) 1946 Twenty-sixthImpression (10,000) 1947 Twenty-seventhImpression (15,000) 1948 Twenty-eighthImpression (17,000) 1952 Twenty-ninth Impression (15,000) 1955 Thirtieth Impression ... (15,000) 1958 Thirty-fiyst Impression. (15,000) 1962 MADEANDPRINTEDINQREATBRITAINBY THE GARDEN CITY PRESS LIMITED LETCHlVORTH,HERTFORDSHIRE · AN APPRECIATION IT is with a feeling of deep appreciation that the Author acknowledges the personal benefit received from putting into effect the principles underlying the Bates Method, as outlined in the book Perfect Sight Without Glasses" by Cl Dr. W. H. Bates, of New York. He hopes that the present volumewillhelp to bring to Dr. Bates' name a large measure ofthe fame he so richly deserved, but which has so far been deniedto him, as the founder of these revolutionary methods ofeye-treatment. 3 CONTENTS PAGB FOREWORDby StanleyLief, NoD.,D.Oo,D.C. 9 PREFACE 11 toSecondEdition 17 .. NinthandExtendedEdition 18 .. FourteenthandFullyRevisedEdition 19 .. TwentiethEdition 20 CHAPTER I. Introductory 240 IIo How the Eye Works 28 Ill. WhySpectaclesareHarmful lJ.4, IV. TheCausesofDefectiveVision 88 V. TheTreatmentofDefectiveVision 4Ao VI. Aidsto Relaxation 47 VII. Aidsto Vision 54 VIII. EyeMuscle Exercises 59 IX. Diet 67 .,. X. HowtoCarryOuttheTreatment 72 Specimen Cases: Myopia 74 Hypermetropia 76 Astigmatism 77 Presbyopia ... 78 Strabismus(Squint) 78 Cataract 79 CHAPTER XI. TheCauseofEyeDiseases 88 XII. TheTreatmentofCataract 88 XIII. Conjunctivitis 94 XIV. Glaucoma.. 99 0 XV. Iritis, Keratitis,andUlcersoftheCornea 102 5 LIST OF ILLUSTRAnONS PAGE DiagramoftheEye 29 ViewofEyeMuscles 30 Palming 48 Swinging 51 EyeMuscle ExerciseNo. 1 60 3 61 RemedialNeckExerciseNo. 1 63 3 64 4 Ob 5 66 7