Author: MILDER, BENJAMIN, M. D.
Title: On the Shoulders of Giants the Story of the Washington University Department of Opthamology and Visual Sciences
Description: No Place: Walsworth Publishing Company, Inc, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Cover is green with gold lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book. Illustrated with b/w photos. Washington University is located in St. Louis, MO. Dr. Milder, the author, came to the school in 1932, eventually ending up as a professor there, one of their great clinicians and teachers, as well as a scholar. He writes of the school's great researchers, teachers and clinicians, along with the superior students who have come to learn over many decades. Over the very many years of this department's existence, it has ranked among the world's best in research, teaching and patient care. It has also been extremely successful in passing along that kind of success in medical care and research from one generation to the next, a remarkable feat. Oversized, 3.5#. ; B&W Photographs; 8 1/2 x 11 1/4; 198 pages; Light bumping and edge wear to cover; some scraping of cover along edges. DJ has some edge wear, rubbing/scuffing, some minor scrunching/tiny nicks along edge; in a mylar cover.. Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: Benjamin Milder; Washington University Dept. Of Opthamology; Colleges; Universities; Education History; Education; Opthamology; Medicine Men; Medicine; Medicine/Health/Health Care Cultural History Education Science History American History Biography/Memoi


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