Document Type
Article
Publication Title
ADA Presidents Album
Abstract
Doctor Walker, of New York City, was elected thirty-18first president of the Association at the 1891 meeting at Saratoga Springs, New York. The scientific session that year included papers on "Electricity as a Therapeutic Agent in the Treatment of Hyperemia and Congestion of the Pulp and Peridental Membrane," "Senile Atrophy of the Upper Jaw," and ''Phagocytosis. '' Doctor Walker received the D.D.S. degree from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery in 1884. He served as president of The Dental Society of the State of New York, the Odontological Society of New York, the First District Dental Society of New York, and the National (Southern) Dental Association. He was born in New York in 1855 and died in 1925.
Publication Date
1977
Recommended Citation
American Dental Association, "ADA President 1891-1892: William Wallace Walker" (1977). ADA Presidents. 107.
https://commons.ada.org/presidents/107
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Dentistry Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, Nonprofit Administration and Management Commons
Comments
Content comprises text (a brief biography and historical highlights), facsimile of autograph and a photographic portrait for each ADA President from 1860 to 1977.