willrich's first book city of courts won the distinguished john h. dunning prize by the american historical association for the best book on any aspect of history and the william nelson cromwell price ordered by the american society for legal history to read dr. willrich received his ph.d. from the university of chicago. before that he worked several years as a journalist in washington, d.c. writing for monthly, city paper, the new republic and other magazines so please give dr. willrich a really warm welcome. [applause] >> thank you for that lovely introduction and thank you all for coming out this evening. it's terrific to be in this place. it's a beautiful building and it's got so many wonderful public programs going on right now bringing the history of medicine and disease important to the national history to people not only in functions like this and to the publications so it's an honor to be here and i want to thank carey for inviting me and being such a gracious host. everyone in this room knows that seen hailed as modern medicines greatest inventions

willrich's first book "city of courts" one for dissing bush john h. dunning prize awarded by the american historical association for the best book on any aspect as u.s. history and the william nelson cromwell prize for legal history. dr. willrich received his ph.d in history from the university of chicago. before that he worked for some years as a journalist in washington, d.c. writing for the "washington monthly," city paper, "the new republic" and other magazines. please give dr. willrich a very warm welcome. [applause] >> the thank you so much for that lovely introduction and thank you all for coming out this evening. it's terrific to be in this place. a beautiful building. and it's got so many wonderful public programs going on right now, bringing the history of medicine and disease which is so important to our national history, to people not only in functions like this but over the internet and through publication. so it's a real honor to be here, and want to thank you for inviting me. as everyone in this room knows, vaccine longtailed as modern medicine