Thomas Bates

Thomas Bates (* before 1709; † probably 1760 ) was an English doctor .

Life

Little is known about Bates' life. He served as a marine doctor in the Mediterranean in 1709. Later he worked as a doctor of Queen Anne and their successors I. Georg worked. In July 1714 rinderpest broke out on farms in the London area and Bates was tasked with containing the animal disease. The sanitary measures introduced, the culling of the infected animals and subsequent burying under a layer of unslaked lime , proved to be effective quickly. In order to be able to implement such measures, Bates recommended compensation payments to affected cattle farmers, which should receive 40 schillings per animal killed. It is not known whether Bates was aware of the measures against rinderpest, which were carried out in Italy by Giovanni Maria Lancisi , but were only published in De bovilla peste in 1715 . Like Lancisi, Bates found that the disease can be transmitted not only from animal to animal but also indirectly.

In 1718 Bates was elected a member of the Royal Society .

Rinderpest broke out again in England in 1745. Bates - now retired and living in Alton - referred to his original publication on the subject, the extent to which this received attention is not known.

Fonts

Thomas Bates: A brief account of the contagious disease which raged among the milk cowes near London, in the year 1714. And of the methods that were taken for suppressing it . In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society . 1718, 30: 872-885, doi : 10.1098 / rstl.1717.0042 .

Individual evidence

^ Lise Wilkinson: Animal and disease: an introduction to the history of comparative medicine. Cambridge University Press , 1992. pp. 51f.
^ ^A ^b ^c Lise Wilkinson: Veterinary cross-currents in the history of ideas on infectious disease. In: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Volume 73, Number 11, November 1980, pp. 818-827, ISSN 0141-0768 . PMID 7017119 . PMC 1437940 (free full text), p. 822.
↑ Wilkinson, 1992, p. 51.
^ The Royal Society: List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660-2007. (PDF file, accessed April 25, 2013; 1.1 MB).
↑ Thomas Bates, Esq. of Alton in Hampshire: Directions recommended to be observed in the present incurable, and contagious distemper among the cows. Ghent. Mag., 1745, 15: 528.

personal data
SURNAME	Bates, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1709
DATE OF DEATH	uncertain: 1760

[1] Lise Wilkinson: Animal and disease: an introduction to the history of comparative medicine. Cambridge University Press , 1992. pp. 51f.

[wilkinson822-2] A ^b ^c Lise Wilkinson: Veterinary cross-currents in the history of ideas on infectious disease. In: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Volume 73, Number 11, November 1980, pp. 818-827, ISSN 0141-0768 . PMID 7017119 . PMC 1437940 (free full text), p. 822.

[3] Wilkinson, 1992, p. 51.

[4] The Royal Society: List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660-2007. (PDF file, accessed April 25, 2013; 1.1 MB).

[5] Thomas Bates, Esq. of Alton in Hampshire: Directions recommended to be observed in the present incurable, and contagious distemper among the cows. Ghent. Mag., 1745, 15: 528.