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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.
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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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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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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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