Sir William Osler: founder of Anglo-American Scientific Clinical Medicine and its teaching

Sir William Osler and French medicine.

'ONLY those of us, Mr. President, who have had the good fortune to hold the distinguished position which, by your kind grace, Sir, I hold today, only those who have delivered the Oslerian oration, can appreciate the extraordinary difficulties besetting a subject, every aspect of which has been considered, very often too, by men who have brought to the task a combination of learning and literary...

[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.