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Dr. Bates -- Obit.
Dr. Bates -- Obit.
Subject: The interesting Dr. Bates
New York Times, July 11, 1931, p. 13, col 1.
DR. W. H. BATES DIES; AN EYE SPECIALIST
Victim, Many Years Ago of a Strange Form of Aphasia, He Disappeared
Twice.
DISCOVERED VALUED DRUG
Added Suprarenal to Field of Optic Surgery -- Wrote Book, "Perfect
Sight Without Glasses."
Dr. William H. Bates, a specialist in diseases of the eye, died
yesterday, after a year's illness, at his residence, 210 Madison
Avenue. He is survived by a widow, the former Mrs. Emily Ackerman
Lierman, who had been his assistant and partner in experiment al
research for seventeen years before their marriage in August 1928, and
by a son of the first of two earlier marriages. Dr. Bates was twice a
widower.
The death of Dr. Bates recalls some years ago of his two strange
disappearaces, which medical men regarded as among the most remarkable
instances of aphasia [sic] or loss of memory. In 1902, seven years
after his graduation from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, when
he was making his way rapidly in his profession and was at work on an
important medical book, he vanished from the sight and knowledge of
his friends. The day that he was last seen, on Aug. 30, he had written
an affectionate, characteristic letter to his wife, who was then
visiting her mother in Newport, and had sent her books and instruments
from his apartment in the Lonsdale, 567 Madison Avenue.
When he failed to return to the apartment for several days the janitor
informed Mrs. Bates, his second wife, who hurried to the city and
began the search for her husband. Six weeks later she learned that he
was working as an assistant in the Charing Cross Hospital, London, to
which he had been taken as a patient. Mrs. Bates went to London, where
she found her husband in an exhausted, nervous state, with no
recollection of recent events. She took him to the Savoy Hotel, where
he rested for two days and then disappeared again.
Mrs. Bates sought her husband on the Continent and in this country in
vain, tracing every clue that reached her. She died before he was
heard of again. How he was discovered and induced to return to New
York and resume his practice has never been revealed in detail.
According to the best version, a fellow-oculist, Dr. J. E. Kelly,
found Dr. Bates, by accident in 1910, practicing in Grand Forks, N.D.
A few months later the two men occupied offices together in this city,
and thereafter Dr. Bates worked as hard and as successfully as he had
done before his original disappearance.
The theories and methods of eye treatment used by Dr. Bates did not
always accord with those of the majority of eye specialists. He was
the originator of a method of treating imperfect eyesight by mental
relaxation. He discovered the drug suprarenal, which has been called
almost as valuable as cocaine in optic surgery. The best known of his
books is "Perfect Sight Without Glasses."
Subject: The interesting Dr. Bates
New York Times, July 11, 1931, p. 13, col 1.
DR. W. H. BATES DIES; AN EYE SPECIALIST
Victim, Many Years Ago of a Strange Form of Aphasia, He Disappeared
Twice.
DISCOVERED VALUED DRUG
Added Suprarenal to Field of Optic Surgery -- Wrote Book, "Perfect
Sight Without Glasses."
Dr. William H. Bates, a specialist in diseases of the eye, died
yesterday, after a year's illness, at his residence, 210 Madison
Avenue. He is survived by a widow, the former Mrs. Emily Ackerman
Lierman, who had been his assistant and partner in experiment al
research for seventeen years before their marriage in August 1928, and
by a son of the first of two earlier marriages. Dr. Bates was twice a
widower.
The death of Dr. Bates recalls some years ago of his two strange
disappearaces, which medical men regarded as among the most remarkable
instances of aphasia [sic] or loss of memory. In 1902, seven years
after his graduation from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, when
he was making his way rapidly in his profession and was at work on an
important medical book, he vanished from the sight and knowledge of
his friends. The day that he was last seen, on Aug. 30, he had written
an affectionate, characteristic letter to his wife, who was then
visiting her mother in Newport, and had sent her books and instruments
from his apartment in the Lonsdale, 567 Madison Avenue.
When he failed to return to the apartment for several days the janitor
informed Mrs. Bates, his second wife, who hurried to the city and
began the search for her husband. Six weeks later she learned that he
was working as an assistant in the Charing Cross Hospital, London, to
which he had been taken as a patient. Mrs. Bates went to London, where
she found her husband in an exhausted, nervous state, with no
recollection of recent events. She took him to the Savoy Hotel, where
he rested for two days and then disappeared again.
Mrs. Bates sought her husband on the Continent and in this country in
vain, tracing every clue that reached her. She died before he was
heard of again. How he was discovered and induced to return to New
York and resume his practice has never been revealed in detail.
According to the best version, a fellow-oculist, Dr. J. E. Kelly,
found Dr. Bates, by accident in 1910, practicing in Grand Forks, N.D.
A few months later the two men occupied offices together in this city,
and thereafter Dr. Bates worked as hard and as successfully as he had
done before his original disappearance.
The theories and methods of eye treatment used by Dr. Bates did not
always accord with those of the majority of eye specialists. He was
the originator of a method of treating imperfect eyesight by mental
relaxation. He discovered the drug suprarenal, which has been called
almost as valuable as cocaine in optic surgery. The best known of his
books is "Perfect Sight Without Glasses."
Re: Dr. Bates -- Obit.
Does anybody else:
a) care?
b) feel like offering up their theory about why Otis has suddenly,
seemingly renounced his long-held, oft-touted, and ill-founded "plus
lens" notion, and seemingly jumped aboard the Bates bandwagon?
Otis? You're the antithesis of scientific in your approach, are a
perpetual fountain of illogical thought, and are patently dishonest.
Maybe Bates IS right up your alley....
Does anybody else:
a) care?
b) feel like offering up their theory about why Otis has suddenly,
seemingly renounced his long-held, oft-touted, and ill-founded "plus
lens" notion, and seemingly jumped aboard the Bates bandwagon?
Otis? You're the antithesis of scientific in your approach, are a
perpetual fountain of illogical thought, and are patently dishonest.
Maybe Bates IS right up your alley....
Re: Dr. Bates -- Obit.
Wow, I found that exceedingly interesting. Dr. Bates was probably the
most interesting man in who lived in the 1900s!
I REALLY wanna to meet him someday! =D
Wow, I found that exceedingly interesting. Dr. Bates was probably the
most interesting man in who lived in the 1900s!
I REALLY wanna to meet him someday! =D
Re: Dr. Bates -- Obit.
He truly impresses me as a man with a considerable "will".
He attempted to do what HE FELT WAS RIGHT -- and went
against the "traditional method" of the day.
As they say, "you can always recognize a pioneer -- by
the arrows in his back".
Enjoy,
On Apr 6, 2:33 am, Jason Sperry <jasonsperr...@gmail,com > wrote:
> Wow, I found that exceedingly interesting. Dr. Bates was probably the
> most interesting man in who lived in the 1900s!
>
> I REALLY wanna to meet him someday! =D
He truly impresses me as a man with a considerable "will".
He attempted to do what HE FELT WAS RIGHT -- and went
against the "traditional method" of the day.
As they say, "you can always recognize a pioneer -- by
the arrows in his back".
Enjoy,
On Apr 6, 2:33 am, Jason Sperry <jasonsperr...@gmail,com > wrote:
> Wow, I found that exceedingly interesting. Dr. Bates was probably the
> most interesting man in who lived in the 1900s!
>
> I REALLY wanna to meet him someday! =D
Re: Dr. Bates -- Obit.
Maybe you should continue this on alt.misc-health.biography, then.
Maybe you should continue this on alt.misc-health.biography, then.
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