William Osler at 150.

Neurological contributions from William Osler.

William Osler was one of the most remarkable clinicians worldwide, and his teachings in medical practice remain until the present days. Although Osler had never considered himself a neurologist, he contributed with clinical and pathological descriptions of numerous neurological diseases. He performed more than 800 autopsies studies of the nervous system and published over 200 articles in the fi...

Sir William and the Osler Library's Board of Curators.

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Dr William Osler and the Pictou County cattle disease.

Rural physicians are sometimes called upon to treat or offer an opinion on a sick animal. They carry on a noble tradition; the great Canadian physician of the late 19th and early 20th century, William Osler, was also not just a single-species doctor. Never one to leave an area of inquiry unrecorded, he published at least 13 articles on veterinary topics.1 Among the topics Dr Osler would study w...

Sir William Osler and his Welsh connections.

to Canada with his young bride, Ellen Free Pickton. She was a native of London, but bore a distinguished Welsh name. William was the youngest of their family of nine, and was born in the parsonage at Bond Head in Tecumseth County in the backwoods of Upper Canada. Uncle Edward was the eldest of the nine children of Grandfather Osler. He was a favourite uncle, of whom WO wrote 'we cherished an am...