Williams, Henry W. (Henry Willard), 1821-1895
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Williams (Harvard, M.D. 1849) served as a visiting district physician and later as surgeon to the Boston Dispensary, and he taught at the Boylston Medical School, 1850-1855. In 1850 he organized a class of Harvard medical students for instruction in diseases of the eye and became a professor at Harvard in 1871. Williams was one of the first among ophthalmic surgeons to use etherization as a general practice in cataract extraction, and also initiated a reform in ophthalmic therapeutics.
From the description of Papers of Henry Willard Williams, 1822-1897 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281433141
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Subjects:
- Ether
- Eye
- Gold mines and mining
- Ophthalmology
- Physicians
- Voyages to the Pacific coast
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- California (as recorded)
- San Francisco (Calif.) (as recorded)
- France (as recorded)
