BATES, William Horatio, a doctor, was born in Newark, NJ, on December
23, 1860, the son of Charles and Amelia (Halsey) Bates.

Graduated (AB) at Cornell University in 1881, received his medical
specialization to the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1885. He
started his practice in New York, and was for a period the Hospital
clinical assistant for the Manhattan Eye el'Orecchio medical assistant
and the Hospital of Bellevue, 1886-88, and the New York Eye infirmary
"," Northern dispensary "and the" Northeastern dispensary, "1886-98.

In his professional work Bates initially devoted its attention to the
various organs of the head but finally limited the sole eye. There was
discharged from hospital appointments in 1896 and for several years
has been involved in experimental work. After practicing for several
years in Grand Forks, N. Dak. Is returned to New York and was
assistant physician of the Hospital Harlem between 1907 and 1922.

In his research, Bates has shown experimentally that the normal
setting of the central, but never stationary, and the technique he
developed to treat imperfect view without the use of glasses was based
on this principle.

From a physiological point of view, this technique was not only the
practical application of psychological theory of the field of
awareness, which is claimed as a point of fire, the so-called point of
appercezione, surrounded by a field of increasing vagueness.

His method was to develop the central fixation training in the patient
art of dual focus and relax your eyes. His method was to develop the
central fixation training in the art of patient dual focus and relax
your eyes.

While carrying forward his experiments developed a way to photograph
the eye to detect changes in its curvature during its normal
operation.

His work is discussed in the article "A Study of Reflected Images from
the Cornea, Iris, Lens, and Sclera" (published on the NY Med. Jour.,
May 18, 1918).

His research on the influence of the memory function of vision are
described in "Memory as an Aid to Vision" (published on NYMed. Jour.,
May 24, 1919).

In 1894 while trying to determine the therapeutic effect over the
active ingredients of the endocrine glands, he discovered astringent
properties and haemostatic aqueous extract of adrenal capsule, then
marketed as adrenaline.

In 1896 he announced this discovery in a paper read at the Academy of
Medicine in New York.

He introduced a new operation for the relief of persistent hearing
loss in 1896, which was to sting or affect the membrane of the ear
drum.

He has published a book, "Perfect Eyesight Without Glasses" (1919),
which had printed at his own expense, in which he exhibited his
theories, which were largely opposed to the practice oftalmologica
established. He also wrote several articles to describe his methods.

He was a member of the Medical Society of the State of New York, and
was affiliated to the Dutch Reformed Church.

He loved sports very much, especially tennis, in which he won many
titles, and which was state champion when he lived in North Dakota. He
was an excellent runner and at the advanced age of fifty-eight years
was still capable of winning a race.

Bates was a quiet and modest man, a serious student of literature and
astronomy, with a weakness for children.

He was married three times: (1) in 1883, Edith Kitchell of New York,
which had a son, Halsey Bates, died in 1886; (2) to Margaret Crawford,
who died in 1927, leaving two children, William Crawford, Milo and
Bates, wife of Charles McComb, and (3) 9 August 1928, Ms. Emily
(Ackerman) Lierman, daughter of Robert Ackerman, of Newark, NJ

Bates died in New York on 10 July 1931.