Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-24

NEW YORK CIT4 Dec. El.-Ldst
summer, while standing near a WIRE
fence in the midst of a
storm a fourteen-year-old boy was
stunned by lightning A common
enough occurrence. you may thlhk'
but there was something most un-
common about this one. n boy
had always had very poor vision
was nearly blind, IL fact-but When
he consciousness after the
lightning bolt and locked about for
his rlasses, ne found that he did not
/ need them. He could see perfectly.
This case gives support to the new
ophthalmology, which declares tnat
| the eve is Ia perfect instrument and
that il we only learn to use 1t per-
fectly we can all throw away our
| glasses. Mycpia, hypermetropia n
| astigmatisu, are ali defects caused
by syestrain. il says, and not by dis
! eased or imperfect visual organs
They are therefore durable by pro-
per methods of relaxation, whereas
the old ophthaltlology held that
they were ipcurable. being caused by
imperfect apparatus, defective from
birth.
According to DR.. William H. Bates
the father of the new opht .alinol-
ogy, who hes examined and treated
| the eyes of hundreds of thousands or
patients at nis clinic at the Harlem
Hospital here in New York, seeing is
a passive performance and with per-
feet vision there IS no. the least eff
fort. 1t is only when we strain to
| see at distance tina. we become myo-
pic or near-sighted. and when we
| strain to see at close quarters that
we become hypermetropic or far
sighted. If we would only relax the
eyes and net put forth such tr tnen-
dous effort. we would find our WIS.,
ion greatly improved.
But how to relax the eyes? DR..
Bates ~prescribes remembering
black" as one of the most eficacious
methods. Close your eyes, put the
PAINS of your hands across them
being careful to exert no pressure
on the eyeballs, and remember black.
Think of the blacklist thing you
know mans silk hat, a totally
| black cat or a black velour curtain.
This sounds easy. but as a matter
| of fact it is quite the opposite. Few
people can imagine perfectly WITH
out mental strain; if they could they
would not have defective Vislol For
one of the strange discoveries or the
new ophtLaimolcgy is that il you
can remember perfectly, or imagine
perfectly. you can see perfectly
Remember Black
Some pcos must practice for q
long time before they can remem-
Der black without at the same time
thinking of other culors, and 1t Is
! almost impossible to hold the image
Of any black object iE the mind fo1
more than a couple of seconds. II
is therefore best not TO dwell upon
one object but to slip from yne black
article to aCother-sEoes. coat, UNI
brella. muller, cat, curtain, etc. a..
When you can remember blaci
perfectly with your eyes closed. yot
must learn 10 do SC with your eyes
pen. You may next be asked to re
member the whiteness OF snow witt
the sun shining on Il, after which yot
are to look at a card os equal white
ness in order TO see a very smac and
very black 30" or perhaps merely
period. When you look at the tes'
card again you viii doubtless be sur
prised to find hat YOU can read the
bottom line. which formerly wa
only a blur.
1t is simply a matter of relaxa
ton. The boy who was stunned b!
1 llGIllllAAlE ItQ AAlN
him. DR.. Sates does not know TIT
how and he is unable to form an,
deirlte opirion without having
complete history CT the case. but ]
is possible, he thinks that the light
ming stroke and the boys subsequen
unconsciousaess brought about a re
Taxed condition of the eyes whicl
relieved them of their habitual straiI
and produced normal vision as if b.
a miracle4
Or. Bates has written a book Of
the correction of imperfect visio.
without glassesin which he describe
many patients who were able to dis
card their glasses in periods rang
ing from hours to weeks. Some Eel
immediate relief after a twenty-min
ute period of relaxation. Other
had to keen il up for W or thre
ten-minute periods each day over
long period. Ons man, who had al
WAYS suffered from defective visio
and who had worn glasses since h
was a boy. devoted n entire da
to the relaxation process, sittIn
quietly in a darkeEed room and Ian
guidiy summo ning a long ~processio
OF black objects 70 mind. AT IN
end of the day he was amazed to I'm
that he could see perfectly withou
his horn-riIGmed sHectacles.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES tell us that tn
visual organ of man was never II
tended for the uses tC which it
now put" Ir. Bates explains in hi
book. "Long before there were an
schools or printing presses, electrH
lights or moving pictures. IL wa