This book is a compilation of letters written by Sir William Osler to his American colleagues and students when he was in Europe. Each page resembles a typed copy of Osler's letters. Each of the letters contains vignettes from his experiences in Germany, when German medicine was preeminent. Most of Osler's letters deal with various infectious dieseases and their discoverers.
"A Way of Life" is the text of an address that Sir William Osler gave at Yale University in 1913.
Osler's meaningful and valuable teachings are timeless, and this new paperback edition would make a fine gift for a fellow physician, medical student, or a graduating resident.
This is an encyclopedia of about 1,000 pages related to Sir William Osler (1849-1919), who was the best-known physician in the English-speaking world during the early twentieth century and who is considered bysome "the father of modern ...
Harvey Cushing (1869-1939), a former student and close friend of Osler's and a pioneer of neurosurgery, has himself become an icon of modern medicine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson , one of the authors in Osler's recommended bedside library , is often remembered for having written the aphorism " Hitch your wagon to a star . " The context of Emerson's famous exhortation , however , was the need ...
Osler's original note reads : “ Professor Wheeler in Proceedings of Amer . Phil . Soc . , vol . Ivii , No. 4 , 1918. " William Morton Wheeler ( 1865-1937 ) : American entomologist . 93. the honey - dew and the milk of paradise : The ...
"A Way of Life" is the text of an address that Sir William Osler gave at Yale University in 1913.
Harvey Cushing (1869-1939), a former student and close friend of Osler’s and a pioneer of neurosurgery, has himself become an icon of modern medicine.
Sir William Osler (1849-1919) was the most famous medical doctor in the world at the turn of the last century.
Sir William Osler, Bart.