David Gilbert Yates

David Gilbert Yates (1870 to 1918) was an American otorhinolaryngologist, a specialist in diseases of the ear, nose and throat, who was born in New Jersey. He attended private schools, worked briefly as a journalist, and then entered New York University, from which he received his medical degree in 1898. He performed surgery at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital and at other institutions in New York. He wrote many original papers for the literature of his specialty, and at various times he was a contributing editor of the Medical Critic and of the New International Yearbook and medical editor of the New International Encyclopedia. He died on 9 May 1918, and the New York Times printed an obituary for him the next day.