> Otis> After reading his ORIGINAL studies -- that made sense -- and
> were LIMITED (1903 - 1913 ) I came to the conclusion that he
> began to exagerate his statements. (i.e., make excessive claims
> and statement.)

> "This" is an interesting aspect to the cure of imperfect sight.

> In article
> <68b3fbe3-d718-4dfd-a7e1-eeeb4e693...[at]u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com> ,
> *Zetsu <absolutelyinvinci...[at]hotmail.com> wrote:
> > [...A very remarkable patient, a girl aged eight, was treated more
> > than fifteen years ago. The vision of the right eye was 2/200 while
> > that of the left eye was 10/200. The right eye turned in most of the
> > time. The vision of the left eye was improved without glasses by
> > alternately resting the eyes.
> > An attempt was made to teach her how to see best where she was
> > looking. She very soon acquired the ability to practice central
> > fixation when the larger letters were regarded. The child became much
> > interested when she realized that her eyes felt better, while the
> > vision and strabismus improved. She practiced central fixation on
> > smaller letters and other objects. The strain which was manifest by
> > the contortions of the muscles of her eyes, face, and other parts of
> > her body disappeared. Her voice became more musical with the
> > improvement of her vision and the subsidence of the strabismus.
> > It was remarkable how well she became able to practice central
> > fixation on very small letters and other objects. She would hold a
> > glass slide on which a small drop of blood was mounted, and claim that
> > she saw the red cells, the white cells, and other minute particles
> > with her right eye while the glass slide was pressed against her
> > eyelashes. She was able to read each letter and period in photographic
> > reductions of the Bible, by central fixation...]
> > - Dr. W.H. Bates, March 1930
> I amazed by how obtuse these few sentences are. The little I have been
> able to extract makes no sense to be based upon my knowledge of
> geometric optics. Is someone able to translate from this pseudo-English
> into real English? I want to get an idea of just how crazy Bates was.
> A big help would be to describe the geometric configuration by giving
> dimensions in millimeters. Include focal lengths or powers of the eye's
> optical parts;
> Bill- Hide quoted text -
> - Show quoted text -

> In article
> <dabel-5C5769.17540527032008[at]c-61-68-245-199.per.connect.net.au> ,
> Dan Abel <dabel[at]sonic.net> wrote:
> > I would call this 14mm. Anybody disagree?
> What is "this". "Anybody disagree?" is as ungrammatical as the writing I
> was trying to understand.

> I would call this 14mm. Anybody disagree?

> In article
> <68b3fbe3-d718-4dfd-a7e1-eeeb4e6938e4[at]u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com> ,
> Zetsu <absolutelyinvincible[at]hotmail.com> wrote:
> > [...A very remarkable patient, a girl aged eight,

> > Her voice became more musical with the

> > - Dr. W.H. Bates, March 1930
> I amazed by how obtuse these few sentences are. The little I have been
> able to extract makes no sense to be based upon my knowledge of
> geometric optics. Is someone able to translate from this pseudo-English
> into real English? I want to get an idea of just how crazy Bates was.
> A big help would be to describe the geometric configuration by giving
> dimensions in millimeters. Include focal lengths or powers of the eye's
> optical parts;

> [...A very remarkable patient, a girl aged eight, was treated more
> than fifteen years ago. The vision of the right eye was 2/200 while
> that of the left eye was 10/200. The right eye turned in most of the
> time. The vision of the left eye was improved without glasses by
> alternately resting the eyes.
> An attempt was made to teach her how to see best where she was
> looking. She very soon acquired the ability to practice central
> fixation when the larger letters were regarded. The child became much
> interested when she realized that her eyes felt better, while the
> vision and strabismus improved. She practiced central fixation on
> smaller letters and other objects. The strain which was manifest by
> the contortions of the muscles of her eyes, face, and other parts of
> her body disappeared. Her voice became more musical with the
> improvement of her vision and the subsidence of the strabismus.
> It was remarkable how well she became able to practice central
> fixation on very small letters and other objects. She would hold a
> glass slide on which a small drop of blood was mounted, and claim that
> she saw the red cells, the white cells, and other minute particles
> with her right eye while the glass slide was pressed against her
> eyelashes. She was able to read each letter and period in photographic
> reductions of the Bible, by central fixation...]
> - Dr. W.H. Bates, March 1930