Long description
Artists, teachers, army officers, housewives, elderly people, parents, and children with vision problems wrote about their experiences with the Bates Method and giving up their glasses in Better Eyesight, Major eye conditions (myopia, astigmaticsm, farsightedness, presbyopia, amblyopia, strabismus, cataract, gluacome, blindness) were discussed by Bates, other opthalmologists, the medical community, and readers. The significance of this literature is both historical and immediate. For the first time, the connection between eyestrain to shoulder and neck pain, headaches, and other muscular tension is discussed.