Osler and other papers / by William Sydney Thayer.

  • William Sydney Thayer
Date:
1931
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Credit: Osler and other papers / by William Sydney Thayer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    II OSLER1 As the accumulating tragedies of the aftermath of war gather fatally one on another, a puzzle and a mystery to the thoughtless masses whose imperfect eyes seek in vain for the cause, the old dead ache that we have borne for these last interminable years—the old dead ache which it is our dream to outlive, breaks out now and again in new and cruel crises. Such a crisis was the death of Sir William Osier, as much a tragedy of the war as if he had fallen by the side of his boy, “ . . . . forward as fits a man.” Son of a canon of the Church of England, born in Bond Head, Ontario, in 1849, he was at the outset destined for the clergy, but his inclination carried him toward medicine, and after four years in Toronto and Montreal, he graduated at McGill University in 1872. For the two years following he studied in London, Berlin and Vienna, and in 1874, he returned as Lecturer and later as Professor of the Institutes of Medicine at McGill University. In 1884 he was called to the Uni¬ versity of Pennsylvania as Professor of Clinical Medi¬ cine, and in 1889, to the Johns Hopkins University as Professor of Medicine and Physician in Chief to the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1905 he left America to become Regius Professor of Medicine and Student of Christ Church at Oxford. Such is a brief outline of his academic career. He held honorary degrees from a large number of American and foreign universities. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society. 1 Reprinted, with additions, from The Nation, January, 1920; Bull. Med. & Chir. Fac. of Maryland, 1920, XII, 72-78.
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