Who is Dr. Bates ?
Dr. William Bates (1860-1931) was an ophthalmologist practising in New York. He started to question traditional views on eyesight because they could not explain some of the things that he was seeing in his practice. He started his own research and developed alternative theories on the eye, some of which were ahead of their time. He recognised the link between the mind and vision, which even researchers today do not fully understand. He discovered that it was possible to improve eyesight in many cases, and devoted his life to showing people how to do this. He published his research and techniques for improving eyesight in 1920 in a book called Perfect Sight Without Glasses. His ideas were rejected by conventional medicine at the time, and are still not generally accepted today. However thousands of people have improved their eyesight using his methods.
