Osler and his Australian associations--Part 1: During his life.

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 6/20 December 2010 193 11/12 686-689 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 www.mja.com.au History Sir William’s grandfather, Edward Osler, was Featherstone (William Osler’s father) and brother whose children scattered to the United States, Sou Australia. Indeed, Harvey Cushing, the contempo neurosurgeon and Osler’s biographer, stated that he h of the Australian branch of the Osler family who l William Osler in “figure, stature, gesture, feature, “... the current may turn towards the [medical] schools of the great nations of the south ... the Africander, the Australian, or the New Zealander may reach a development before which even ‘the glory that was Greece’ may pale”