Sir William Osler in Great Britain / by Sir Humphrey Rolleston, Bart. K.C.B., M.D., D.C.I., D.Sc., Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge, Physician-in-ordinary to H.M. the King.

  • Humphry Rolleston
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[1927?]
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Credit: Sir William Osler in Great Britain / by Sir Humphrey Rolleston, Bart. K.C.B., M.D., D.C.I., D.Sc., Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge, Physician-in-ordinary to H.M. the King. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Beprinted from Sir William Osler Memorial Volume, Second Impression, Bulletin No. IX, International Association of Medical Museums, 1927 • SIR WILLIAM OSLER IN GREAT BRITAIN Sir Humphry Rolleston, Bart. K.C.B., M.D., D.C.L., D.Sc. Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge Physician-in-Ordinary to H.M. the King Cambridge, England T^HE memory of Sir William Osier in the hearts of his * friends and admirers in Great Britain,—and no med¬ ical man had so many,—has not become less vivid with the passing years since 1919, when they lost one to whom they could confidently turn in any grave emergency. His associations with Great Britain may be briefly outlined in relation to three periods or phases of his life; the first, of fifteen months in 1872-73, just after his graduation at McGill, was spent at University College working in the physiological laboratory under the late Professor J. Bur- don-Sanderson, and in the adjacent hospital and elsewhere at clinical medicine. Some of the fruits of this post¬ graduate study appeared in two papers on the blood in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (1873) and in the Proceedings of the Royal Society (1874). During the second period, terminating in 1905, when he became Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, he made frequent visits in the summer months for rest and oppor-
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