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Articles by Dr. W.H. Bates
Around the turn of the 19th century, Dr. Bates wrote 30 medical
articles which were accepted and published by major medical journals
of that time. The majority (16 of the 30) were published in the
New York Medical Journal; twelve were published in various
other medical journals; one in the Bridgeport Telegram;
and one in Hearst’s International.
In addition there were three articles published in French, in La
Clinique Ophthalmologique, between 1912 and 1921.
These
thirty-three articles span most of Dr. Bates’ 45-year career
as an ophthalmologist and they reflect the gradual change in his
practice: away from the traditional medical methods of his early
years as an eye doctor, to the variety of relaxation techniques
used during the majority of his long career. By the time he returned
to New York from North Dakota in 1911, he had made a complete shift
to natural methods for the treatment of all eyesight problems. He
spent the next two decades helping his patients improve their sight,
while publishing articles and magazines to explain his views and
methods.
Being so inquisitive, Dr. Bates stumbled on some other solutions
along the way, for example: he discovered adrenaline, and he found
the cure for writer's cramp.
Here
is the complete list of Dr. Bates' articles:
1886: A new operation for the alleviation of persistent
deafness
The Medical
Record, January 23, 1886, p88-89
1887: Multiple Paracentesis of the membrane tympani
Letter
to the Editor of the New York Medical Journal, March 5, 1887
1891: Improvement in the vision of myopia by treatment without glasses
New
York Medical Journal, April 18, 1891, #53 p455-456
1892: The vision of a case of myopia improved by treatment without
glasses
Virginia
Med. Monthly 18:941, 1891-1892, p941-943
1892: Notes on spasms of the accommodation
New
York Medical Journal, June 4, 1892, p632-633
1894: Treatment of myopia without glasses
The
Medical Record, January 27, 1894, p104-106
1894: A suggestion of an operation to correct astigmatism
Archives
of Ophthalmology #23, 1894, p9-13
1896: The use of extract of suprarenal capsule in the eye
New
York Medical Journal, May 16, 1896, p647-650
1898: Suture of the Cornea after Removal of the Lens; an experimental
study
(Publication
information unknown)
1900: Secondary Cataract; an experimental study
New
York Medical Journal, July 7, 1900, p1-5
1900: The therapeutic properties of the suprarenal capsule
Journal
American Medical Association, 1900 XXXV p346-348
1911: The prevention of myopia in school children
*
New
York Medical Journal, July 29, 1911, p237-238
1912: The cause of myopia
New
York Medical Journal, March 16, 1912, p529-532
1912: Eye training for the cure of functional myopia
New
York Medical Journal, May 18, 1912, p1029-1032
1912: A case of myopic refraction relieved by eye education
Medical
Record, November 9, 1912, p851-852
1913: Myopia prevention by teachers
New
York Medical Journal, August 30, 1913, p410-413
1914: Fishes’ Eyes
Zoological
Society Bulletin, p1170-1173
1915: The radical cure of errors of refraction
New
York Medical Journal, May 8, 1915, p925-933
1917: Blindness relieved by a new method of treatment
New
York Medical Journal, February 3, 1917, pp. 200-202
1917: The imperfect sight of the normal eye
New
York Medical Journal, September 8, 1917, p440-442
1918: A study of images reflected from the cornea, iris,
lens and sclera
New
York Medical Journal, May 18, 1918, p916-924
1918: Improving the sight of soldiers and sailors and relieving
pain
New
York Medical Journal, October 12, 1918, p639-641
1919: Memory as an aid to vision
New
York Medical Journal, May 24, 1919, p890-893
1920: Shifting as an aid to vision
New
York Medical Journal, July 31, 1920, p158-160
1921: A clinical and experimental study of physiological
optics
American
Journal of Clinical Medicine, July 1921, p437-443
1921: Imagination and vision
Journal
of the Allied Medical Associations of America, October 1921
1921: Writers’ cramp: its cause and cure
Medical
Record, September 3, 1921, p415-417
1922: Curing eyes without glasses! How? By exercising them
The
Bridgeport Telegram, March 9, 1922
1923: Throw away your glasses
Hearst’s
International, September 1923, p42-43, p128-132
1923: A study of imagination
Allied
Medical Journal, 1923 (unconfirmed date)
1912: L’éducation de l’oeil dans l’amblyopie
ex anopsia
La
Clinique Ophtalmologique, p631-638, 10 December 1912
1912: De la myopie fonctionnelle
Revue
Internationale d'Hygiène et de Thérapeutique Oculaires,
p70-73, May 1912
1921: La guérison de vision défectueuse sans lunettes
La
Clinique Ophtalmologique. #25, p504, 1921
* Articles listed in bold
were included in Reprints,
a paperback published by Dr. Bates. These were likely selected by
him for containing the information most likely to be helpful to
people interested in learning how to improve their own eyesight
without glasses.
I believe the above list is
complete, yet if you know of other articles by Dr. Bates himself,
I would love to hear from you!
During Bates' lifetime other authors also published articles
about his methods to improve vision, for example: 'Your Eyesight'
by Hereward Carrington, Ph.D., published in Leslie’s Weekly,
21 January 1922. I welcome such articles too, yet I am mainly interested
in Dr. Bates' own writings.
My
collection of these articles is available as a PDF file, 3.5MB,
140 pages, for US$20.00. See MEDICAL
ARTICLES BY DR. W.H. BATES, 1886-1923
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