Perfect Sight Without Glasses (or The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses which it says on the title page) was first published in 1920. The book was printed on Dr. Bates' own publishing company: Central Fixation Publishing Co.

The book contains Dr. Bates' findings after decades of research and experimental work into various eye disorders. Even though he expected to find some errors in the old theories and beliefs used for the past 150 years, he was amazed at his own discoveries and the effect they had for the treatment of defective vision.

• The Fundamental Principle
• Preface
• Chapter I - Introductory
• Chapter II - Simultaneous Retinoscopy
• Chapter III - Evidence for the Accepted Theory of Accommodation
• Chapter IV - The Truth About Accommodation As Demonstrated By Experiments On the Eye Muscles of Fish, Cats, Dogs, Rabbits And Other Animals
• Chapter V - The Truth About Accommodation As Demonstrated By a Study of Images Reflected From the Lens, Cornea, Iris And Sclera
• Chapter VI - The Truth About Accommodation As Demonstrated By Clinical Observations
• Chapter VII - The Variability of the Refraction of the Eye
• Chapter VIII - What Glasses Do to Us
• Chapter IX - Cause and Cure of Errors of Refraction
• Chapter X - Strain
• Chapter XI - Central Fixation
• Chapter XII - Palming
• Chapter XIII - Memory As an Aid to Vision
• Chapter XIV - Imagination As an Aid to Vision
• Chapter XV - Shifting and Swinging
• Chapter XVI - The Illusions of Imperfect and of Normal Sight
  • Illusions of Color
  • Illusions of Size
  • Illusions of Form
  • Illusions of Number
  • Illusions of Location
  • Illusions of Non-Existent Objects
  • Illusions of Complementary Colors
  • Illusions of the Color of the Sun
  • Blind Spots After Looking At the Sun
  • Illusions of Twinkling Stars
  • Cause of the Illusions of Imperfect Sight
  • Illusions of Normal Sight
• Chapter XVII - Vision Under Adverse Conditions a Benefit to the Eye
• Chapter XVIII - Optimums and Pessimums
• Chapter XIX - The Relief of Pain and Other Symptoms by the Aid of the Memory
• Chapter XX - Presbyopia: Its Cause and Cure
• Chapter XXI - Squint and Amblyopia: Their Cause
• Chapter XXII - Squint and Amblyopia: Their Cure
• Chapter XXIII - Floating Specks: Their Cause and Cure
• Chapter XXIV - Home Treatment
• Chapter XXV - Correspondence Treatment
• Chapter XXVI - The Prevention of Myopia in Schools: Methods that Failed
• Chapter XXVII - The Prevention And Cure of Myopia And Other Errors of Refraction In Schools: A Method That Succeeded
  • Directions
• Chapter XXVIII - The Story of Emily
• Chapter XXIX - Mind and Vision
• Chapter XXX - Normal Sight and the Relief of Pain for Soldiers and Sailors
• Chapter XXXI - Letters from Patients
  • Army Officer Cures Himself
  • A Teacher's Experiences
  • A Mental Transition
  • Relief After Twenty-Five Years
  • Seeking a Myopia Cure
  • Facts Versus Theories
  • Cured Without Personal Assistance
• Chapter XXXII - Reason and Authority

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