William Horatio Bates was an American physician who practiced ophthalmology and developed the Bates method for better eyesight. The method rested on his theory that the eye does not focus by changing the power of the lens but by elongating the eyeball through the extraocular oblique muscles, a model that contradicted mainstream ophthalmology and optometry then and now.
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William Horatio Bates born 23 December 1860
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