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Questions and Answers
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  All readers of this magazine are invited to send questions to the
editor regarding any difficulties they may experience in using the
various methods of treatment which it recommends. These will be
answered as promptly as possible, in the magazine, if space permits,
otherwise by mail. Kindly enclose a stamped, addressed envelope.
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  Q.  I began to wear glasses for farsight when I was twenty-six. I
began with convex 1.00 D. S. and now at forty-two I am wearing convex
2.50 D. S., or was until a few weeks ago when I decided to try the
methods presented in this magazine. I can read and sew with ease in
the daylight, but cannot read fine print even in a strong electric
light for more than a few minutes without getting a dull ache at the
back of my eyeballs. What I want to ask is this: 1. Do you advise the
use of the test card in my case, or is it only for children? 2. Would
the swing help me, and if so will you explain it a little more
clearly? 3. Is it best to go without glasses as much as I can, or am
I injuring my eyes by so doing? 4. Would it retard the cure to use
glasses just for evening reading? How long will it take for my eyes to
become young again, if that is possible? G. H.
  A.  1. The test card is for everybody. 2. Yes, the swing would help
you. The normal eye is constantly shifting, and thus an apparent
movement of objects regarded is produced. By consciously imitating
this unconscious shifting of the normal eye and realizing the apparent
movement which it produces, imperfect sight is always improved. 3. You
should discard your glasses permanently. They are never a benefit and
always an injury to the eyes. 4. Yes. 5. It is entirely possible for
your eyes to become young again, but it is impossible to guess how
long this will take, because it is impossible to tell how well or
intelligently you will practice central fixation.
  Q.  Why is it that when I look at an electric light half a mile
away it looks as if there were ten or a dozen rays of light going in
all directions? R. R. T.
  A.  Because when you look at an object half a mile away you strain
to see it, and under the influence of the strain you imagine rays
going in all directions so vividly that you seem to see them. It is
for the same reason that the stars twinkle. If you could look at the
light, or at the stars, without effort, there would be no twinkling.
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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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Imagination Number
Better Eyesight
A monthly magazine devoted to the prevention and cure of imperfect
sight without glasses
Copyright, 1921, 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
300 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y.
Vol. IV - May, 1921 - No. 5
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