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 BATCHELDER

BATES

For many years he made diseases of the eye and their treatment his specialty. In 1825 he tied the carotid artery as a means of cutting off the supply of blood to a large sarcomatous tumor of the lower jaw, which he subsequently re- moved with success.

He performed the rhinoplastic opera- tion in 1828 for the first time in this country, and a plastic operation for a new under-lip for the first time on this side of the Atlantic. Both of these opera- tions were successful. He was the first in this country to remove the head of the femur.

His writings included:

"A Case of Disease of the Heart," being a letter addressed to Prof. J. C. Warren, dated Charleston, New Hampshire, Sep- tember 1, 1813, and printed in the " New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery."

"Paper on Fracture of the inferior ex- tremity of the Radius," ibid, May 4, 1818.

"Treatise on Removal of Fragments of Needles from Hands and Feet." Ex- tract from "Surgical Lectures."

"Treatise on the Reduction of the Dis- location of the Upper End of the Radius."

"Case of a tumor in the neck, in which the innominata had been laid bare nearly its whole length; the pulsations of which, with those of the primitive carotid, were felt by several gentlemen who assisted in the operation. " 1846.

"Fracture of Patella, Clavical and Olecranon Process of the Ulna," "New York Medical and Surgical Reporter."

"Paper on Removal of the Head of the Femur," " New York Medical Journal."

"Treatment of Cholera," "New York Medical Journal, " 1854.

"Practical Observations on Trache- otomy, as a Remedy in Croup," "New York Medical Journal," 1854.

"Dislocation of the Upper End of the Radius," printed in the "New York Journal of Medicine," 1856.

"Pathology and Treatment of the Paralysis of Motion," " Virginia Med- ical Journal," vol. x., No. 1.

"Pathology of Motion," "Virginia Medical Journal, " No. 5.

"Work on Compressed Sponge."

From Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Living New York Surgeons (S. W. Francis). Med. and Surg. Reporter, Phiia., 1S64, vol. xii.

Bates, James (1789-1882).

This distinguished man descended from one Clement Bates, of Hereford- shire, England, who with his wife Ann came with a family of five children from London to Hingham, Massachusetts, April 6, 1635. Most of their descend- ants settled in Scituate, Massachusetts, later on.

James Bates was born in Greene, Maine, September 24, 1789. His mother's name, Mary Macomber, from Taunton, Massachusetts. At the age of seven his parents moved to Fayette, Maine, where the boy had a common school education. When twenty-one he be- gan to study medicine with Dr. Charles Smith of Fayette, and Dr. Ariel Mann of Hallowell.

The war of 1812 soon breaking out, he was appointed surgeon's mate in the army and towards the close of the war was ordered to the hospital on the Canadian Frontier, where he took care of the sick and wounded, and spent nearly two years in gradually getting them back to New England. Travel in those days was so slow that a journey of four weeks to Maine was considered very rapid. The sufferings of the pa- tients in the hospital being great, and those caused by the journey home being worse, it was considered best to keep the wounded there for a long time, rather than send them home with the proba- bility of dying from the hardships of travel.

Dr. Bates resigned from the army in 1815, and went into partnership with Dr. Ariel Mann, at Hallowell, and on July 27 married Miss Mary Jones, daughter of Captain Sylvester Jones, of Fayette, Maine, with whom he lived happily sixty years, and had a family of two sons and three daughters.