RARE"Ophthalmologist" William Holland Wilmer Hand Signed 3X5 From The 1930's COA

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Up for auction a *RARE* Hand Signed 3X5 card by Ophthalmologist William Holland Wilmer. This is one of the only known documents signed by this legendary physician not in the collection of the Army Medical Museum (now the National Museum of Health and Medicine of the AFIP) and is a RARE! piece of Johns Hopkins history.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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William Holland Wilmer influenced military ophthalmology through his research and his patient care. The son of a Protestant Episcopal Bishop, he earned his MD at the University of Virginia in 1885, interned at Mount Sinai, and began practice in Washington in 1899. He also maintained a professorship at Georgetown University beginning in 1917 and managed a broad practice in the mid-Atlantic region. Wilmer made notable contributions to military ophthalmology and to aviation medicine, pioneering the establishment of visual requirements and ocular conditions for aviators. His leadership of the Medical Research Laboratory at Mineola, Long Island (1917) placed him at the forefront of training for flight surgeons and in the classification of pilot candidates as they used novel devices and instruments to simulate high-altitude conditions. He pioneered efforts to produce oxygen delivery systems to pilots. His Air Service Medical Manual (1918) was the first US volume dedicated to medical aspects of military pilot selection. He directed the medical research unit of the American Expeditionary Forces 3rd Aviation Training Center at Issoudun in 1918. Earlier, he had patented military eye protection devices for attachment to combat helmets and took as his inspiration medieval armor in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An avid collector of books and instruments relating to ophthalmology, near the end of his life Wilmer sent his books to the eponymous Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins and arranged for the donation of his instruments to the Army Medical Museum (now the National Museum of Health and Medicine of the AFIP). In this display case are some of these instruments and related materials.