Re: Pool Turd Alert Re: Why do two people see differently with the same prescription?
"Mike Tyner" <mtyner@mindspring,com > wrote in message
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> Were you aware that you left another turd in the swimming pool?
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> Do you ever have an original thought?
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> Does Bates chew your food for you?
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> Does he regurgitate like a bird, or do you wait for it to pass all the way
> through?
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> -MT
Some research from the Uni of Qld looked at this question of myopia and the
impact of glasses. They had some subjects with mild myopia go without their
glasses for a period of time because it is known the slight improvements in
vision can occur. What they found was that there was no change in
accommodation but rather the improvement appeared to arise from improved
V6(?) function - ie; neocortical adjustment. The improvement is minor and
not a cure.
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> "Zetsu" <absolutelyinvincible@hotmail,com > wrote in message
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>> An ophthalmologist of the past named Bates was interested in this
>> phenomenon;
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>> In the November 1923 issue of Better Eyesight Magazine he writes:
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>> [...A person who has been wearing glasses to improve the sight of
>> myopia and has worn these glasses for a number of years is quite
>> dependent upon them. When the glasses are removed, the vision is much
>> less than normal and it is a curious fact that the vision without
>> glasses does not depend directly upon the amount of myopia. A person
>> with two diopters of myopia may have just as poor vision without
>> glasses as one who has six or more. When a myopic patient lays aside
>> the glasses entirely for two weeks, when the vision is again tested it
>> is often much improved. The facts demonstrate that wearing glasses
>> always lowers the visual acuity much below what it is when the glasses
>> are not worn at all. It is a matter of common knowledge that when the
>> glasses are first worn that the patient does not always obtain a
>> maximum amount of relief. Some eye doctors when asked to explain
>> matters sometimes tell their patients that their eyes have to become
>> adjusted to the glasses. It is not always easy to explain things
>> satisfactorily, especially when some fault-finding patients complain
>> that what they wanted was glasses to help their eyes and that they
>> hardly expected to be called upon to adjust their eyes to fit the
>> glasses...]
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