biography
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Bates, William Horatio
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| male
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| lived:
| (1860–1931)
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| biography:
| Physician and ophthalmologist, born in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He studied at Cornell University (1881) and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons (1885). Establishing a practice in New York City, he worked as clinical assistant at the Manhattan Eye and Ear hospital and was attending physician at Bellevue hospital (1886–8) and the New York Eye Infirmary. He was also a lecturer in ophthalmology at the New York Medical School and Hospital (1886–91). His book, Better Eyesight Without Glasses (1919), explained poor sight as a disturbance of normal mind–body co-ordination which results from mental, emotional, or other disturbances. He developed a series of exercises to achieve healthy eyesight which emphasize relaxation, memory, imagination, and perception to improve the communication between the eyes and the brain. |
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