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| Zetsu |
 Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:16 am |
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[...The Palming Cure
One of the most efficacious methods of relieving eyestrain, and hence
of improving the sight, is palming. By this is meant the covering of
the closed eyes with the palms of the hands in such a way as to
exclude all the light, while avoiding pressure upon the eyeballs. In
this way most patients are able to secure some degree of relaxation in
a few minutes, and when they open their eyes find their vision
temporarily improved.
When relaxation is complete the patient sees, when palming, a black so
deep that it is impossible to remember or imagine anything blacker,
and such relaxation is always followed by a complete and permanent
cure of all errors of refraction (nearsight, farsight, astigmatism and
even old sight), as well as by the relief or cure of many other
abnormal conditions. In rare cases patients become able to see a
perfect black very quickly, even In five, ten or fifteen minutes; but
usually this cannot be done without considerable practice, and some
never become able to do it until they have been cured by other means.
When the patient becomes able after a few trials to see an approximate
black, it is worth while to continue with the method; otherwise
something else should be tried.
Most patients are helped by the memory of some color, preferably
black, and as it is impossible to remember an unchanging object for
more than a few seconds, they usually find it necessary to shift
consciously from one mental picture to another, or from one part of
such a picture to another. In some cases, however, the shifting may be
done unconsciously, and the black object may appear to be remembered
all alike continuously...]
- Dr. W. H. Bates, January 1920 |
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| Jan |
| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:36 pm |
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Zetsu schreef:
Quote: [...The Palming Cure
- Dr. W. H. Bates, January 1920
Zetsu schreef:
Quote: Well I didn't know about the difference of convention for writing
prescriptions with some of them in 'minus cylinder' and others in
'plus cylinder', so I didn't know there wasn't really a big difference
in the two prescriptions, so it just sounded like a huge amount of
accommodative spasm, so I was surprised. I am just a layperson, how am
I to know these things =P
By keeping your eyes open and your mouth shut when reading the messages
in this newsgroup.
Jan (normally Dutch spoken) |
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