Better sight without glasses

Historical Significance: Benjamin was a disciple of WD Bates and follower of his methods as the appreciation on page 8 makes clear as does the preface (dated 1929). The preface describes the author's personal experience of being a 10D myope at age 5 progressing to 20D by the age of 26 with retinal haemorrhaging. He was advised to give up reading by the "great Harley Street specialist" who also said nothing could be done. He read WD Bates book and threw his glasses away and with the help of a natural diet found he could read although his distance vision "was not so good". He studied under London naturopaths and practised as a "practitioner of Natural Methods of Eye Treatment". This book is one of quite a number that espouse alternative treatments to preventing and remedying eye conditions usually under the title of Better sight without glasses or similar: See MacFadden (1901 # 429, 1925 # 1081), Bates 1920, 1944 (#98, # 250), Benjamin 1935, 1940 (#94, # 252), Hauser c1960 (#576)