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The testimony of the following letter to the value of the experiences
of patients recently published in this magazine is very interesting.
The statements about the effect of central fixation upon the desire
for sleep are also significant, and the facts have been duplicated in
many other cases.
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I am keenly interested in this medium through which your discoveries
and the experiences of your patients are made known to the public. My
eyesight is improving steadily, and I find that I am grasping and
applying the principles set forth in your magazine more intelligently
every day.

I have improved physically and mentally since I started the exercises.
Ever since I can remember, I have had the greatest difficulty in
rousing myself from a very heavy sleep in the morning into which I
seem to fall after a night of constant dreaming. As a result, I feel
heavy with fatigue and positively stupid mentally. One doctor whom I
consulted said that these nocturnal disturbances were due to
indigestion, or a bad conscience! I told him I guessed it was both!

As soon as I awaken in the morning now, I start my exercises and after
palming, flashing and swinging, I feel as if a fog had lifted and as
if I were suddenly released from a weight that had held me down. I
start the day with a clear mind and buoyant energy that enables me to
accomplish twice as much as I used to. This has been a very
interesting experience to me, and a very curious one. I suppose some
mental scientists would say that I forget my fatigue because I focus
my attention and interest on something else, which may be true to a
certain extent, but not wholly, because it does not explain the sudden
clear vision and physical freedom of which I immediately become
conscious.

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Snellen Test Cards

There should be a Snellen test card in every family and in every
school classroom. When properly used it always improves the sight even
when it is already normal. Children or adults with errors of
refraction, if they have never worn glasses, are cured simply by
reading every day the smallest letters they can see at a distance of
ten, fifteen, or twenty feet.
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Better Eyesight
A monthly magazine devoted to the prevention and cure of imperfect
sight without glasses
Copyright, 1920, by the Central Fixation Publishing Company
Editor—W. H. Bates, M.D.
Publisher—Central Fixation Publishing Co.
$2.00 per year, 20 cents per copy
39-45 East 42nd Street, New York, N. Y.
Vol. II - April, 1920 - No. 4
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