Sir William Osler (1849-1919)

[Sir William Osler].

Sir William Osler revisited.

The basis of Sir William Osler's fame is elusive to almost all and the appropriateness of such recognition is questioned by many. His many contributions as a practitioner, teacher, writer, and scientist in medicine do not adequately explain his prominence 60 years following his death. It was his participation in the covenant of medicine and the special components of that relationship that may a...

Tea with Sir William Osler.

Having unexpectedly recovered after 70 years of cryopreservation precipitated by the heating arrangements in the bedrooms of 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, where he was Regius Professor of Medicine, Sir William Osler recently visited the current Regius Professor to take tea with him in the Master’s Garden at the Almshouses of Ewelme. Excerpts from the tea-time conversation between the “Regii” follow.

Sir William Osler, M.D., C.M.

A Continual Remembrance. Letters from Sir William Osler to his Friend Ned Milburn 1865–1919

The Gold-Headed Cane, by WILLIAM MACMICHAEL, facsimile of 1827 ed., with introduction by Thomas Hunt, London, Royal College of Physicians, 1968, pp. 26 + 179, illus., £4. William Macmichael (1783-1839), M.D. Oxon., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., was educated at Bridgnorth Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford. After graduating in Arts he studied medicine at Edinburgh and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Londo...