Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2147

WILLOUGHBY DAYTON MILLER (1853-1907) The micro-organisms of the human mouth. S. S. White Dental Mfg. Co. 1890 xx [2] 364 pp., illus. 24.5 cm.

Miller, a native of Ohio, was graduated from the University of Michigan and went to Edinburgh to study chemistry, philosophy, and mathematics. He decided to specialize in physics and went to Berlin for further studies. While in Berlin, he became interested in dentistry and returned to the United States where he received a dental degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He returned to Germany, established a dental practice, and taught at the University of Berlin. It was at Berlin that he did his notable work in bacteriology under Robert Koch (see No. 2053 ff.). He did not return to the United States until 1906 and died before he could assume a teaching position at the University of Michigan. This, his most widely-recognized work, was first published in German in 1889. In it, he presents the etiology of caries and correctly explains for the first time the causative factors leading to the dissolution of enamel and dentine.

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Cited references: Garrison-Morton 3687