How to correct your Retinas

Vision: Applied to Development of Sight i Dim and Unused Retinas

Most of us know the story of Raffles, the safe- cracker whose fingertips contained such sensitive nerve ends that by resting them on the outside of the lock, he could sense the fall of the tumblers within when he turned the dial, and thus solve any safe combination. As the story goes, the law overtook him and he was put at hard, labour behind prison wall's, But there came a time when important papers were necessary to the governor of the state and Raffles was secretly Called upon to open the lock on the safe where they Mere hidden. When Raffles returned, thrilled at the opportunity to practise his former skill, he was stunned o find that his fingertips were calloused and numb. He could feel nothing. Quickly he called for sandpaper and rubbed his fingers down to the quick where the nerve ends could get through. Then they functioned as well as ever.

Undeveloped and unused retinal nerves are much the, same. They must be sensitised, sand-papered so to speak, with vision to the point where they can find light and record shadow as do those in the normal eye.

Doctors claim that there are many causes for undeveloped retinal nerves. sometimes one eye is stronger than the other at birth and the brain, which takes the easiest way, ignores the darker window. Using only the stronger eye thus allows the dull eye to grow duller with disuse. Again, the optic nerve May be so tense that there is insufficient circulation to stimulate and nourish the retina, which as a result becomes weak, anaemic and dim of sight. Or, if certain eye muscles are so tight that they pull an eye off focus crossed eyes the turned eye may give up the struggle to see or else develop vision of a poor quality in the wrong portion of the retina. In such an eye, the outer rim of the retina meets the world and a false macula or false centre of sight is built up.

Since" most unused eyes tend to slip off-centre, we shall consider the vision of crossed eyes, meaning eyes that turn at any angle off centre.