This is Dr. Bates article stating the problems he had with other doctors (who\u00a0 preferred to sell eyeglasses, eye surgery) when Dr. Bates was curing their\u00a0 patients naturally; Other Doctors try to hide Dr. Bates discoveries from\u00a0 the public. Doctors expel Dr. Bates from the Hospital he worked at after\u00a0 Dr. Bates cures patients without glasses, surgery, drugs and proves the facts\u00a0 of Natural Eyesight Improvement.<\/p>\n
Fifteen or twenty years ago the\u00a0 specialist mentioned in the foregoing story read a paper on cataract at a\u00a0 meeting of the ophthalmological section of the American Medical Association\u00a0 in Atlantic City, and asserted that anyone who said that cataract could be\u00a0 cured without the knife was a quack. At that time I was assistant surgeon at the\u00a0 New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and it happened that I had been collecting\u00a0 statistics of the spontaneous cure of cataract at the request of the executive\u00a0 surgeon of this institution, Dr. Henry G. Noyes, Professor of Ophthalmology\u00a0 at the Bellevue Hospital Medical School. As a result of my inquiry I\u00a0 had secured records of a large number of cases which had recovered, not only\u00a0 without the knife, but without any treatment at all. I also had records of\u00a0 cases which I had sent to Dr. James E. Kelly of New York and which he had cured,\u00a0 largely by hygienic methods. Dr. Kelly is not a quack, and at that time was\u00a0 Professor of Anatomy in the New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital\u00a0 and attending surgeon to a large city hospital. In the five minutes allotted\u00a0 to those who wished to discuss the paper, I was able to tell the audience\u00a0 enough about these cases to make them want to hear more. My time was, therefore,\u00a0 extended, first to half an hour and then to an hour. Later both Dr. Kelly and\u00a0 myself received many letters from men in different parts of the country who had\u00a0 tried his treatment with success. The man who wrote the paper had blundered,\u00a0 but he did not lose any prestige because of my attack with facts upon his\u00a0 theories. He is still a prominent and honored ophthalmologist and in his latest\u00a0 book he gives no hint of having ever heard of any successful method of\u00a0 treating cataract other than by operation. He was not convinced by my record of\u00a0 spontaneous cures, nor by Dr. Kelly’s record of cures by treatment; and while\u00a0 a few men were sufficiently impressed to try the treatment recommended, and\u00a0 while they obtained satisfactory results, the facts made no impression upon the\u00a0 profession as a whole, and did not modify the teaching of the schools. That\u00a0 spontaneous cures of cataract do sometimes occur cannot be denied; but they\u00a0 are supposed to be very rare, and any one who suggests that the condition can\u00a0 be cured by treatment still exposes himself to the suspicion of being a\u00a0 quack.<\/p>\n
Between 1886 and 1891 I was a lecturer at the Post Graduate\u00a0 Hospital and Medical School. The head of the institution was Dr. D. B. St.\u00a0 John Roosa. He was the author of many books, and was honored and respected by\u00a0 the whole medical profession. At the school they had got the habit of putting\u00a0 glasses on the nearsighted doctors, and I had got the habit of curing them\u00a0 without glasses. It was naturally annoying to a man who had put glasses on a\u00a0 student to have him appear at a lecture without them and say that Dr.\u00a0 Bates had cured him. Dr. Roosa\u00a0found it particularly annoying, and the\u00a0 trouble reached a climax one evening at the annual banquet of the faculty\u00a0 when, in the presence of one hundred and fifty doctors, he suddenly poured out\u00a0 the vials of his wrath upon my head. He said that I was injuring the\u00a0 reputation of the Post Graduate by claiming to cure myopia. Every one knew that\u00a0 Donders\u00a0said it was incurable, and I had no right to claim that I knew more\u00a0 than Donders. I reminded him that some of the men I had cured had been fitted\u00a0 with glasses by himself. He replied that if he had said they had myopia he had\u00a0 made a mistake. I suggested further investigation. “Fit some more doctors\u00a0 with glasses for myopia,” I said, “and I will cure them. It is easy for you to\u00a0 examine them afterwards and see if the cure is genuine.” This method did not\u00a0 appeal to him, however. He repeated that it was impossible to cure myopia,\u00a0 and to prove that it was impossible he expelled me from the Post Graduate, even\u00a0 the privilege of resignation being denied to me. The fact is that, except in rare cases, man is not a reasoning being. He is dominated by authority, and when\u00a0 the facts are not in accord with the view imposed by authority, so much the\u00a0 worse for the facts. They may and indeed must win in the long run; but in the\u00a0 meantime the world gropes needlessly in darkness and endures much suffering that\u00a0 might have been avoided.<\/p>\n
Dr. Bates spent his lifetime dealing with these type of doctors. In time many agreed with Dr. Bates, worked with\u00a0and were trained by him to teach Natural Eyesight Improvement. There are now\u00a0more and more\u00a0modern eye doctors that are\u00a0teaching the Bates Method, working with Natural Vision Improvement teachers, students.<\/p>\n
(Medical doctors have passed a law making it is\u00a0 illegal for anyone to use the word CURE unless they are a doctor.) What is\u00a0 happening to our country? There is still corruption in the medical field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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