Strong Eyes
Strong Eyes
How Weak Eyes May Be Strengthened and Spectacles Discarded.
By
Bernarr Macfadden
Editor of "Physical Culture," and "Woman's Physical Development,"
and author of "Virile Powers of Superb Manhood," "Strength from Eating," "New Hair Culture," "Athletes Conquest," etc., etc.
Copyrighted 1901
—by—
Bernarr Macfadden in U. S. A.
Entered at Stationer's Hall, London, England.
All Rights Reserved.
Published by the
Physical Culture Publishing Co.,
New York, U. S. A.
CONTENTS.
Preface (not in original TOC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
1 | |
| Chapter I. | ||
THE EYES—The most Important of Human Organs of Sense. The Mechanism and Mystery of Sight—The Lauguage of the Eye and its Expression of Individual Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
3 | |
| Chapter II. | ||
BEAUTIFUL EYES—The seat of Intellectual and Emotice Charm—Elusiveness of Definition—The Physical Causes of Beautiful Eyes—Concordant Development of Eyes with Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Chapter III. | ||
STRONG EYES—Their Necessity to a Strenuous Life The Limitations of the Blind and the Weak-sighted—Strong Eyes the main Factor in Personal Magnetism and Hypnotism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Chapter IV. | ||
DULL EYES—Always the Result of General Physical Debility—Absurdity of Looking for a Local cause or of Seeking for Local Remedies—The Eyes a Thermometer of Health—How Dull Eyes may be Brightened . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
29 | |
| Chapter V. | ||
WEAK EYES—Result of Over-taxing—Bad Light and Wrong Positions in Reading—How these are to be Corrected—Evils of Present Education of School-children—How Weak Eyes may be Strengthened . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Chapter VI. | ||
CRIPPLED EYES—The Eyes that are Born so—The Eyes that are Made so—Spectacles are Crutches—How these may be Laid Aside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Chapter VII. | ||
DISEASED EYES—Congestion and its Treatment—Inflammation and its Treatment—Catarrh of the Eye and its Treatment—Granulation and its Treatment—Eye-pimples and Styes, Tumors of Eyelids and their Treatment—Spasms and Twitchings of the Eyelids and their Treatment—Specks before the Eyes and their Treatment—Cross-eyes and their Treatment—Diseases of the Cornea and their Treatment—Diseases of the Iris and their Treatment—Diseases of the Pupil and their Treatment—Cataract and its Treatment—Diseases of the Choroid and their Treatment—Diseases of the Retina and their Treatment—Diseases of the Optic Nerve and their Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
46 | |
| Chapter VIII. | ||
CONSTITUTIONAL TREATMENT for Strengthening the Eyes—Out-of-door Exercise—Diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
61 | |
| Chapter IX. | ||
MASSAGE OF THE EYE—How the Eye may be Massaged with the Fingers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Chapter X. | ||
EYES EXERCISES—Illustrated System of Exercises for Strengthening the Muscles that Control the Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Chapter XI. | ||
EYE BATH—How this Valuable Means of Strengthening the Eyes can be Taken—Shown by Illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Chapter XII. | ||
SPECIAL EXERCISES—Illustrated Exercises for the Neck which will Effect the Eyes Beneficially . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Chapter XIII. | ||
EXERCISES FOR CONSTITUTIONAL TREATMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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