Counsels and ideals from the writings of William Osler / [Sir William Osler].

  • Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919.
Date:
1905
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    Darwin, Charles, and J. Leidy, parallel between, 47 ; ‘ stretch¬ ing the pia mater] 48. Death, pathos of early, 248; sudden, 248; Matthew Ar¬ nold’s wish, 249 ; the physi¬ cian and the problem, 249; ‘ clean forgotten, like the dead man out of mind,’ 250 ; com¬ munion of saints and the busy life, 250 ; how man dies, 251; parting, 256; a long shadowy group, 268 ; those who have fallen in the battle of life, 269 ; the mental, 269; the moral, 269. Debt to our times* 100. Defeat, no. Delian sacrifice, a, 260. Delilah of the press, 256. Democracy, tyranny of, 24; in medicine, 72. Detachment, art of, 85, 87 ; in¬ tellectual, 86. Devotion, and heroism, ilo; to duty, in. Diagnosis, not drugging, 190. Dilettante, the, 133. Disaster, should be faced boldly, no. Discipline of science, 80. Disease, nature and, 78. Doctor and nurse, always with us, 261. Doctors, quarrels of, 114; friend¬ ly intercourse needed, 115; training an important factor, 115; mutual concessions necessary, 117 ; attitude of mind the all-essential to pro¬ motion of concord, 117; say a good word for the ‘ off colour’ man, 118 ; tittle-tattle, 121 ; the wagging tongues, 122. Dover, Thomas, a good fighter and a good hater, 37; dis¬ coverer of Robinson Crusoe, 38 ; ‘ Dover’s Powder,’ 38. Dreamer, the, 257. Dreams, 124. Drugs, the most uncertain ele¬ ment in our art, 116. Duty, devotion to, in. Education, medical, what it is, 128 ; its aims and objects, 128 ; a life course, 142 ; prac¬ tical, 151. See also Medical art. Equanimity, 256. Eryximachus, 24. Evolution, 24. Examinations, stumbling-blocks and rocks of offence, 145. Experience, 152, 207 ; and the general practioner, 202. Experiments in the laboratory, 27 ; clinical, 28. Failure, 95. Faith, science and, 248. Fate, the practitioner’s, 210. Fevers, differentiation of, 23. Foreign travel, 169. France, honours her great men, r7- French school in the ‘thirties,’ a medical student’s day at, 137- Future, the, schemes for, 256. Gehazis, the, 107. General practitioner, the, 198 ; the best product of our pro¬ fession, 198; experience and the, 203 ; qualities of the, 208. See also Practitioner. Goldsmith, Oliver, compared with O. W. Holmes, 39. Gospel of living, the, 257. Great men, 100. Greeks, back to the, 26. Gynaecologist, the, 185. Harvey, 31. Heart, incorruptible treasures of the, 59; the honest, 120. Heroism and devotion, no. Historical study, value of, 12.