02738nam 2200589Ia 450 991045148620332120211213214357.01-280-76113-X97866107611350-19-535256-4(CKB)1000000000408949(EBL)430677(OCoLC)433076173(SSID)ssj0000272143(PQKBManifestationID)11207173(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000272143(PQKBWorkID)10296183(PQKB)10232113(MiAaPQ)EBC430677(Au-PeEL)EBL430677(CaPaEBR)ebr10278207(CaONFJC)MIL76113(EXLCZ)99100000000040894919990519d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWilliam Osler[electronic resource] a life in medicine /Michael BlissOxford ;New York Oxford University Press19991 online resource (622 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-532960-0 0-19-512346-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface: On Doing an Osler Autopsy; 1 English Gentlemen with American Energy; 2 Learning to See: Student Years; 3 The Baby Professor; 4 The Best Men: Philadelphia; 5 Starting at Johns Hopkins; 6 We All Worship Him; Illustrations; 7 The Great American Doctor; 8 Leaving America; 9 A Delightful Life and Place; 10 Sir William; 11 All the Youth and Glory of the Country; 12 Never Use a Crutch; 13 Osler's Afterlife; Notes and Sources; Acknowledgments; Illustration Credits; IndexWilliam Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught, and wrote about medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as Regius Professor at Oxford. At the time of his death in England in 1919, many considered him to be the greatest doctor in the world. 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. He was idolized by two generations of medical studentsPhysiciansCanadaBiographyElectronic books.Physicians610.6952092610.92B610/.92 BBliss Michael1941-2017.935921MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451486203321William Osler2113993UNINA