In the history of medicine, Willoughby D. Miller is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Willoughby D. Miller as American dentist (1853–1907).
Willoughby D. Miller was born at Alexandria in 1853. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The recorded fields of work are dentist.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from United States matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Willoughby D. Miller died in 1907, aged 54. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Fields: dentist
