Background
Henry Willard Williams was born on December 11, 1821 in Boston, Massachussets, the son of Willard and Elizabeth (Osgood) Williams, both natives of Salem, Massachussets.
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An Address Delivered Before The Suffolk District Medical Society: At Its Fourth Anniversary Meeting, Boston, April 30, 1853...
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Henry Willard Williams
Edit ProfileEducation
He received his early education at the Boston Latin School and, after the death of his parents, at the Salem Latin School. At first destined for business, he finally entered the Harvard Medical School at the age of twenty-three. He graduated in 1849.
Career
He spent three years in Paris, London, and Vienna, where he became greatly interested in the study of diseases of the eye, then developing as a special field of medicine.
Returning to Boston, he organized in 1850 a voluntary class of Harvard students for his lectures in ophthalmology, and began private practice.
From 1866 to 1871 he was lecturer in ophthalmology in the Harvard Medical School, and in 1871, when a chair was established, he became the first professor in that subject. He served as ophthalmologic surgeon at the Boston City Hospital from its founding in 1864 to 1891.
He was one of the founders of the American Ophthalmological Society (1864) and served as its president (1868 - 75).
He published three books: A Practical Guide to the Study of the Diseases of the Eye (1862), one of the first American textbooks of ophthalmology; Our Eyes, and How to Take Care of Them (1871), first published as a series of papers in the Atlantic Monthly (January-May 1871); and The Diagnosis and Treatment of the Diseases of the Eye (1881), the best book of its day on the subject.
He took an active interest in the Massachusetts Medical Society, of which he was president in 1880-82. As a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he wrote, in the latter years of his life, a few excellent obituary notices of deceased fellows.
Williams died in Boston.
Achievements
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He was one of the first in the United States to recognize the value of the ophthalmoscope, invented by Hermann von Helmholtz in 1851, for examining the inside of the eye, and should be regarded as one of the founders of ophthalmology in the United States. He made very valuable contributions to his subject in his writings on the operation for cataract, the use of a general anesthetic in eye surgery, and the simplified treatment of iritis with atropine.
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Cocaine in Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery: Simple Cataract Extraction; Exenteration of the Eyeball (Classic Reprint)
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Our Eyes, and How to Take Care of Them
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The Diagnosis and Treatment of the Diseases of the Eye
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An Address Delivered Before The Suffolk District Medical Society: At Its Fourth Anniversary Meeting, Boston, April 30, 1853...
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A Practical Guide to the Study of the Diseases of the Eye: Their Medical and Surgical Treatment
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Cocaine in Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery: Simple Cataract Extraction; Exenteration of the Eyeball (Classic Reprint)
Personality
He was a conspicuous figure at medical meetings, a frequent, vigorous, and persuasive speaker.
Connections
He was married twice: in 1848 to Elizabeth Dewe of London, and in 1860 to Elizabeth Adeline Low of Boston. Of six sons, three became physicians.
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American