GB 0100 KCLCA KH/PP13 - OSLER, Professor Sir William (1849-1919)

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OSLER, Professor Sir William (1849-1919)

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  • 1906 (Creation)

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Born, 1849; educated Trinity College, Toronto, University of Toronto, 1868-1870, McGill University, Montreal, 1870-1872, University College London, 1872-1873; Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, McGill University, 1874-1884; Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1884-1889; Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1889-1904; Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford, 1904-1919; elected to the Royal College of Physicians, 1884, and to the Royal Society, 1898; died, 1919.

Publications: The cerebral palsies of children (London, 1889) The principles and practice of medicine (Edinburgh, 1891); On Chorea and choreiform affections (London, 1894); Lectures on Angina Pectoris and allied states (New York, 1897); Cancer of the stomach. A clinical study (London, 1900); Aequanimitas. With other addresses to medical students, nurses and practitioners of medicine (London, 1904); The student life. A farewell address to Canadian and American medical students (Oxford, 1905); Counsels and ideals from the writings of William Osler (Oxford, 1905); The growth of truth, as illustrated in the discovery of the circulation of the blood (London, 1906); Science and immortality (London, 1906); An Alabama student, and other biographical essays (Oxford, 1908); Thomas Linacre (Cambridge, 1908); The treatment of disease (London, 1909); Incunabula medica. A study of the earlier printed medical books, 1467-1480 (London, 1923); The tuberculous soldier (London, 1961).

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GB 0100 KCLCA KH/PP13 1906 Collection (fonds) 1 file Osler , Sir , William , 1849-1919 , Knight , Professor of Medicine

Born, 1849; educated Trinity College, Toronto, University of Toronto, 1868-1870, McGill University, Montreal, 1870-1872, University College London, 1872-1873; Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, McGill University, 1874-1884; Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1884-1889; Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1889-1904; Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford, 1904-1919; elected to the Royal College of Physicians, 1884, and to the Royal Society, 1898; died, 1919.

Publications: The cerebral palsies of children (London, 1889) The principles and practice of medicine (Edinburgh, 1891); On Chorea and choreiform affections (London, 1894); Lectures on Angina Pectoris and allied states (New York, 1897); Cancer of the stomach. A clinical study (London, 1900); Aequanimitas. With other addresses to medical students, nurses and practitioners of medicine (London, 1904); The student life. A farewell address to Canadian and American medical students (Oxford, 1905); Counsels and ideals from the writings of William Osler (Oxford, 1905); The growth of truth, as illustrated in the discovery of the circulation of the blood (London, 1906); Science and immortality (London, 1906); An Alabama student, and other biographical essays (Oxford, 1908); Thomas Linacre (Cambridge, 1908); The treatment of disease (London, 1909); Incunabula medica. A study of the earlier printed medical books, 1467-1480 (London, 1923); The tuberculous soldier (London, 1961).

King's College Hospital.

Correspondence between William Osler and a friend, Mrs Parmalee, mostly family news, with typescript copy, 1906; manuscript copy of questions in the cojoint Oxford and Cambridge Boards physiology paper, 1906; two photographs of Osler in youth and old age.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services.
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Johns Hopkins University Libraries: correspondence and papers, 1882-1919; McGill University, Osler Library: correspondence and papers; Yale University Libraries, Medical Library: papers, 1898-1918; Duke University Medical Library: letters and papers, 1902-1919; University of California Library, San Francisco: papers; Royal College of Physicians of London: papers; Bodleian Library, Oxford, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts: paper on the evolution of British Surgery, 1914 (Ref: Eng misc d 81); University of British Columbia, Woodward Biomedical Library: letters, 1889-1919; Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London: letters, 1874-1919 (Ref: PP/ESS and others).

Sources: British Library OPAC; National Register of Archives; Dictionary of national biography; Who's who. Compiled by Geoff Browell.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Correspondence between William Osler and a friend, Mrs Parmalee, mostly family news, with typescript copy, 1906; manuscript copy of questions in the cojoint Oxford and Cambridge Boards physiology paper, 1906; two photographs of Osler in youth and old age.

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Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services.

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Summary guide entry on-line and due to be published in hard copy.

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Johns Hopkins University Libraries: correspondence and papers, 1882-1919; McGill University, Osler Library: correspondence and papers; Yale University Libraries, Medical Library: papers, 1898-1918; Duke University Medical Library: letters and papers, 1902-1919; University of California Library, San Francisco: papers; Royal College of Physicians of London: papers; Bodleian Library, Oxford, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts: paper on the evolution of British Surgery, 1914 (Ref: Eng misc d 81); University of British Columbia, Woodward Biomedical Library: letters, 1889-1919; Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London: letters, 1874-1919 (Ref: PP/ESS and others).

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King's College London College Archives

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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