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 William Osler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sir William Osler (July 12, 1849 - December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician.
Osler was named a baronet in 1911 for his great contributions to the field of medicine.
Osler was a great collector of books relevant to the history of medicine.
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 William Osler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician.
Osler was a prolific author and a great collector of books and other material relevant to the history of medicine.
Osler's nodes are painful indentations on the muscular pads of hands and feet, a symptom of infectious endocarditis.
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 Sir William Osler, Baronet (www.whonamedit.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Osler was born in the backwoods of Canada, the youngest of the nine children of the Reverend Featherstone Osler, who had gone to Canada as an Anglican missionary, and his wife, Ellen.
Osler was not only professor of medicine but physician in chief to the hospital, an office first devised by the president of the university on the basis of his experience of running a large department store and later to spread to most of the medical centres of the United States.
Osler makes of this slight evidence a graceful address on "a man of whom you have never heard, a humble student from a little town in Alabama." The address, presented to the Johns Hopkins Historical Club in January, 1895, was first printed in the Johns Hopkins Hospital bulletin in 1896.
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 William Osler, Sir Biography / Biography of William Osler, Sir Biography
The Canadian physician Sir William Osler (1849-1919) was outstanding in the principles and practice of medicine, contributed writings of classical quality, and collected an impressive library on the history of medicine.
William Osler was born in Tecumseh, Ontario, on July 12, 1849.
Osler held the chair of clinical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from 1884 to 1889, when he went to Baltimore as professor of the principles and practice of medicine and as physician-in-chief at the university hospital.
www.bookrags.com /biography-william-osler-sir   (548 words)

  
 Sir William Osler - UMDNJ Camden Campus Library
Osler studied medicine at McGill University and, after graduating and pursuing further studies in Europe, returned to McGill as a lecturer.
In 1905, Dr. Osler was appointed as Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford.
A brief biography from The Osler Society of McGill University.
www4.umdnj.edu /camlbweb/osler.html   (512 words)

  
 William Osler - Biography
William Osler was born in a remote part of Ontario known as Bond Head.
John S. Billings recruited William Osler in 1888 to be physician-in-chief of the soon-to-open Johns Hopkins Hospital and professor of medicine at the planned school of medicine.
Osler, a superb diagnostician and clinician, was greatly esteemed by his peers in this country and abroad.
www.medicalarchives.jhmi.edu /osler/biography.htm   (444 words)

  
 Books : William Osler: A Life in Medicine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849.
Osler, who was a brilliant, innovative teacher and a scholar of the natural history of disease, revolutionized the art of practicing medicine at the bedside of his patients.
Osler is taken often to epitomize the physician who brings a crticial and scholarly approach to the bedside in conjunction with compassion and empathy.
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 Sir William Osler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Osler believed medicine was a progressive science and his enthusiasm for learning influenced his students to reach for the top through ongoing education and research.
Osler was one of the first to appreciate the interaction between body systems.
Sir William Osler was a professor at McGill University, a Professor of Medicine at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Regius Chair of Medicine at Oxford University in England.
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 Sir William Osler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Osler is regarded as McGill’s most eminent medical graduate and, as Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, the most eminent member of the McGill Medical Faculty.
The collections of the Osler Library have now grown from the approximately eight thousand books donated by Sir William to a collection of aproximately 60 000 volumes, to which aproximately one thousand volumes are added each year.
American Osler Society The American Osler Society has been founded for the purpose of bringing together members of the medical and allied professions who are, by their common inspiration, dedicated to memorialize and perpetuate the just and charitable life, the intellectual resourcefulness, and the ethical example of William Osler (1849-1919).
www.mcgill.ca /osler-library/collections/special/osler   (788 words)

  
 Sir William Osler
Sir William Osler believed medicine was a progressive science and his enthusiasm for learning influenced his students and peers to strive for excellence through ongoing education and research.
Sir William Osler was a professor at McGill University, Professor of Medicine at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Regius Chair of Medicine at Oxford University, England – a few of his achievements.
Sir William Osler was internationally recognized for his work of over 1,500 scientific publications detailing his research and medical innovations.
williamoslerhc.on.ca /health_centre/about_wohc/sir_william_osler.htm   (279 words)

  
 William Osler and Children's Tonsils
Sir William Osler was the greatest physician of the 20th century.
Osler was a keen observer and vivid writer.
Although Osler did not have the technology to separate snoring from sleep apnea, his observations are still valid.
www.acusleep.com /osler1919.html   (2185 words)

  
 Amazon.com: William Osler: A Life in Medicine: Books: Michael Bliss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Osler cult was assiduously cultivated by a number of his students and admirers, especially his nephew William W. Francis, who catalogued and guarded his library (and relics) at McGill.
By the 1950s, memories of Osler had faded, but he became the subject of renewed interest in the 1960s, as a model of medical humanism in a world in which medicine was increasingly dominated by science and technology.
Osler was also that quintessential Canadian, the provincial boy who achieves fame on the wider stage of the USA or Britain.
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 Amazon.ca: William Osler: A Life in Medicine: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Osler, a Canadian, became famous in the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century, first in Canada, then in the U.S., and finally in England.
This is particularly so in regards to William Osler, whose life and work have been immortalized, and a man who had acheived a legendary status even during his own life time.
There is a profound lesson in "William Osler: A Life in Medicine" for our own era and its bizarre and pitiful oblivion of all that really lies at the heart of medicine: suffering, character, judgment, courage, conscience, compassion, ignorance, and you and I. Not process control, impersonal abstraction, colossalism, profiteering, niggardliness, or cosmetic morality.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0802085415   (1099 words)

  
 William Osler --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Canadian physician William Osler won fame as a teacher, clinician, and innovator in his own country as well as the United States and England.
Osler played a key role in transforming the organization and curriculum of medical education, emphasizing the importance of clinical experience.
William Harvey's studies were the beginnings of the science of physiology.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9276221   (659 words)

  
 Robert Fulford's column about William Osler
Once, urging that young people be given a chance to prove themselves, he lightheartedly suggested that it might be better for the human race if we all retired at age 60 and took a fatal dose of chloroform a year later.
Bliss demonstrates that the answer is yes, providing that the man does crucial work in original and ingenious ways, that he and his friends leave behind a richly detailed record and that the biographer places the man's life and work in their historic framework.
Osler has a lively presence on the Internet, where Tan Min-Han, a medical student at the National University of Singapore, maintains a Web site with texts of Osler lectures and links to other Osler sites.
www.robertfulford.com /Osler.html   (796 words)

  
 Osler, Sir William on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
OSLER, SIR WILLIAM [Osler, Sir William], 1849-1919, Canadian physician, M.D. McGill Univ., 1872.
Sir William Osler's emphasis on physical diagnosis and listening to symptoms.
William Osler's Influence on the Career of Tinsley Randolph Harrison.(physicians)
www.encyclopedia.com /html/o/osler-s1i.asp   (292 words)

  
 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame: Laureates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Osler finished his M.D. at McGill University, buoyed along by a dynamic personality and immense personal magnetism.
It took less than ten years of outstanding work at McGill before Osler was successfully courted by the Universiry of Pennsylvania.
Osler led a generation of young doctors away from the textbooks and directly to the bedsides of the afflicted.
www.cdnmedhall.org /laureates?laur_id=10   (166 words)

  
 12. The Student Life by William Osler. Morley, Christopher, ed. 1921. Modern Essays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sir William Osler, one of the best-loved and most influential teachers of his time, was born in Canada in 1849.
Walt Whitman said, when Dr. Osler attended him years ago, “Osler believes in the gospel of encouragement—of putting the best construction on things—the best foot forward.
He’s a fine fellow and a wise one, I guess.” The great doctor’s gospel of encouragement is indeed a happy companion for the midnight reader.
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 About Sir William Osler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Osler was born in Bond Head and raised in Dundas, Ontario, Canada.
When Osler was made a Baronet in 1911, a coat-of-arms had to be designed.
The fish are Cornish pilchards; Osler's ancestors were seafaring folk from Falmouth.
www.medicine.mcgill.ca /oslerweb/about.htm   (289 words)

  
 Sir William Osler Elementary School - A Biography of Sir William Osler
Sir William Osler was an ideal physician: a master of the science and art of medicine, a lover of humanity, and totally devoted to healing as a sacred calling.
Osler began his medical education at the University of Toronto in 1868 and completed his training at McGill University in 1872 with post-graduate studies in London, Vienna, and Berlin.
Includes a brief biography of Osler and a history of the Osler Society of McGill University
osler.vsb.bc.ca /osler.htm   (373 words)

  
 Sir William Osler, Baronet --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Osler, at the bedside of a patient, while professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, …
Canadian physician and professor of medicine who practiced and taught in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain and whose book The Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892) was a leading textbook.
Osler played a key role in transforming the organization and curriculum of medical education, emphasizing…
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 Sir William Osler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The plaque features a copper-dusted bust of the face of Sir William Osler, a pathologist-turned-internist who made myriad contributions to make medicine an art.
Osler, extraordinary storehouse of energy and imagination, was born a minister's son into humble surroundings and went on to become the leading medical man of his age.
His masterpiece, "The Principles and Practice of Medicine," first published in 1891, quickly became the bible of medical education the world over, providing a strong moral influence on modern medicine for generations.
wso.williams.edu /orgs/aura/osler   (221 words)

  
 William Osler
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OSLER, William, Canadian educator, born in Tecumseh, Ont., 12 July, 1849.
Osler is physician to various hospitals, and is the author of "Clinical Notes on Small-pox" (Montreal, 1876) ; "Pathological Report, Montreal General Hospital" (1878) ; and "Histology Notes" (1882).
www.famousamericans.net /williamosler   (341 words)

  
 Sir William Osler
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 Sir William Osler Quotes - The Quotations Page
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
www.quotationspage.com /quotes/Sir_William_Osler   (188 words)

  
 ToInspire Quotes
Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old." - Sir William Osler
The art of observation: William Osler and the method of Zadig.
The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
www.toinspire.com /author.asp?author=William+Osler   (847 words)

  
 William Osler Quotes
8 Quotes for 'William Osler' in the Database.
It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.
All Quotes are provided for educational purposes only and contributed by users.
www.worldofquotes.com /author/William-Osler/1   (264 words)

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