The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-02-07

If you had tuberculosis and
learned that wearing glasses would
cure 1t, you would be pretty quick
to put on glasses, wouldn't you?
DR.. Frank D. W. Bates of Hamil-
ton, Ontario. and DR.. George NJ.
Gould of Philadelphia. both vouch
for the statement that in many cases
tuberculosis can be arrested. by the
use of glasses and In recent pape.
written for physicians. DR.. Bates
cites a series of cases where men
and women have been cured of the
disease by wearing glasses while
other persons living In exactly the
same surroundings refused to wear
glasses and died.
DR.. Bates has no spectacies to sell
and so his statements are at least
worth looking Into While he does
not claim that glasses will cure tu-
herculosis in all Instances. yet no
asserts without reserve that the dis
ease has been arrested in many
cases by the simple wearing OF
glasses suited to the eyes. While
large mass of prominent physicians
: OF the country do not agree with
Dr. Bates yet his arguments sound
reasonable enough.
Tuberculosis Is the result Of a
wornout body. he argues. When the
body is at low ebb the disease germs
enter It and get start. Eye strain
VIII wear out the body by using up
nerve energy. Not only does tu-
bercuiosis have chance to enter
the body as the result of eye strain.
but other diseases find lodgment as
well.
Disease Of any kind will and
Judgment in the body when the Vi
taiity Is low. That 10 why a poorly
nourished man will get sick when
wen nourished man viii ward OF.
disease. II has bean proven time
and again that the man leading
sedentary life Is more likely to die
of disease than one leading an out
door life. The reason is easily found.
The man working indoors usually
places himself under nerve strain.
Nerve strain burns up energy.
Muscle strain also burns up energy.
but the muscle energy can be re-
placed by good. wholesome food
more quickly than the nerve energy.
When the brain is put to hard
effort brain cells are destroyed by
the process. When a man works
hard. muscle tissue is destroyed.
Both losses are made good by the
consumption of food. There Is
natural law that when something
Is accomplished energy is burned
up in the accomplishment.
When a man works under eye
strain day after day. week after
week. month after month and year
after year. the cells 81 seeing are
broken down. II they are broken
down at the right rate of speed they
can be built up AGAIN. but when
they are broken down too rapidly
the result Is call on every part Of
the body to help support the eyes.
When food Is eaten the energy
Even by the food Is given over to
the eyes In large proportions to the
detrtment of other organs. All
through the human system are anti
germ bodies called leucocytes
When the system is run down the
energy belonging to the leucocytes
u given to another part of the body
The office of the leucocytes Is to
destroy disease germs and when
their energy is lost they cannot per-
form their duties. The germs infest
the human body and the person Is
III.
The theory sounds reasonable and
Is on this theory that the advo-
Gates Of spectacle : wearing base
their arguments. If your eyes are
good spectacle wearing would never
heip you. II your eyes are bad, by
MI means wear spcctacles and save
your energy. the doctor says. Not
only Will the conservation Of energy
help In fighting CT tuberculosis. Il
Will help in warding on other dis
eases.
DR.. Bates. who has q reputation
as an expert in tuberculosis treat
ment suggests to the medical pro-
fession that 1t Is quite as import
ant to keep the body In such shape
that germs will not take root in It
as 1t Is to discover germs or invent
new methods in surgery.
His attention was first called 10
eyestrain in the development Of dis
nc esSAEIdA SISlGuI DY a
case of diabetes that was cured by
an operation upon the eyes. A ply
sician had been treating the case Ia
the regular way for four years With
cut result. not expecting cure. Tia
patient got into the hands of Chi
caEo oculist. who performed an
s operation. The ocrlist gave no medi-
cine.
nnnkor r.tn. 49,.
one year afterward and wrote In
quiries about it both to the ply
sician and the oculfst. The ply
aician replied that he had examined
the man q dozen times since the
operation and not traces OF dia-
hetes remained. There had been
ccnplete cure, which he attributed
e his PATIENTS relief from eycstrain
blythe operation. +
Doctor Bates spent three weeks