Re: Halos
Dear Zetsu,
Subject: Bates, and YOUR credibility.
I have seen this before. Posting WONDEUL statement about
how you got to PERFECT vision, of 20/15 and 20/10.
Then you berate an ophthalmologist for NOT doing that.
Then when asked to do is yourself -- you sit on your
butt and don't do anything.
I do not think Bates is discredited. I think it is his "followers"
who, by their lack of self-checking discredit Bates.
It is like an obese kid -- that complains about being
obese -- and blames some one "medical" -- when,
he will not:
1. Weigh himself (read Snellen),
2. An work on losing weight -- under HIS control.
This effort to "pass" responsibility "somewhere else" -- is at
the root of the obesity problem.
For that reasion I suggest:
Have you checked your Snellen?
http :// www .smbs.buffalo.edu/oph/ped/IVAC/IVAC.html
You have cried "wolf" once too often.
Just my second-opinion on "Bates People",
But, not all are like Zetsu -- but ....
Enjoy,
On May 19, 11:50 am, Zetsu <absolutelyinvinci...@hotmail,com > wrote:
> [...Halos
>
> When the eye with normal sight looks at the large letters on the
> Snellen test card, at any distance, from twenty feet to six inches or
> less, it sees, at the inner and outer edges and in the openings of the
> round letters, a white more intense than the margin of the card.
> Similarly, when such an eye reads fine print, the spaces between the
> lines and the letters and the openings of the letters appear whiter
> than the margin of the page, while streaks of an even more intense
> white may be seen along the edges of the lines of letters. These
> "halos" are sometimes seen so vividly that in order to convince people
> that they are illusions it is often necessary to cover the letters,
> when they at once disappear. Patients with imperfect sight also see
> the halos, though less perfectly, and when they understand that they
> are imagined, they often become able to imagine them where they had
> not been seen before, or to increase their vividness, in which case
> the sight always improves. This can be done by imagining the
> appearances first with the eyes closed; and then looking at the card,
> or at fine print, and imagining them there. By alternating these two
> acts of imagination the sight is often improved rapidly. It is best to
> begin the practice at the point at which the halos are seen, or can be
> imagined best. Nearsighted patients are usually able to see them at
> the near-point, sometimes very vividly. Farsighted people may also see
> them best at this point, although their sight for form may be best at
> the distance...]
>
> - Dr. W.H. Bates, February 1920