Word: wilmers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: We have been led to assume that your journal carries an account of the times with a careful and well considered valuation of events by cognizant persons. Your blatant characterization of Dr. William Wilmer as "incontestably the greatest eye surgeon the U. S. has ever had" in the issue of Oct. 28, shows how superficial your analysis must be. Among a fairly large acquaintanceship in the profession, I know of no one who would concur in such an opinion. I applaud with you the direction of a large fund to the advancement of our knowledge of eye diseases. Great...
Before Dr. William Holland Wilmer became professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins University, the University's President Frank Johnson Goodnow and Professor William Henry Welch both wrote: "It is generally conceded that Dr. Vilmer is the outstanding ophthalmologist in this country. . . . The faculty of John? Hopkins University considers that the opportunity of Dr. Wilmer becoming professor of ophthalmology in this institution constitutes an opportunity which is unlikely to be offered again within a genera-tion." At the dedication of the Wilmer Institute, Dr. Ernest Fuchs of Vienna (TIME. Nov. 25), under whom Dr. Wilmer studied 40 years...
Wood is the only New England played to be mentioned for the team, and he will be in company with such well-known players as W. T. Tilden, III. Francis Hunter, George Lott, Wilmer Allison, and John Van Ryn, all of whom have represented the United States in other Davis Cup tilts...
...world's highest medical tributes of last week went to two Johns Hopkins' medical men-William Henry Welch and William Holland Wilmer. To Dr. Wilmer the University dedicated the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute and to Dr. Welch the William H. Welch Medical Library. At the same time, the University inaugurated a Department of the History of Medicine and installed Dr. Welch as its head. Dr. Wilmer. William Holland Wil mer, 66, tall, blondish son of an Episcopal Bishop, is incontestably the greatest eye surgeon the U. S. has ever had.* Every U. S. President from Grover Cleveland...