Sir William Osler, Bart

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SOME OP THE EAELY MEDICAL WORK OP SIR WILLIAM OSLER By W. T. Councilman William Osier, the son of the Rev. P. L. Osier, was born in Tecumseh, Ontario, in 1849. He was one of a large family, and his ancestors were a vigorous, long-lived race. He graduated from Trinity College, Toronto, in 1868, began the...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SOME OP THE EAELY MEDICAL WORK OP SIR WILLIAM OSLER By W. T. Councilman William Osier, the son of the Rev. P. L. Osier, was born in Tecumseh, Ontario, in 1849. He was one of a large family, and his ancestors were a vigorous, long-lived race. He graduated from Trinity College, Toronto, in 1868, began the study of medicine in the University of Toronto, and after two years went to McGill University, Montreal, where he received the M. D. degree in 1872. From 1872 to 1874 he studied abroad, working in the various London clinics, in the laboratory of University College, London, and in the laboratories and clinics of Berlin and Vienna. He came in contact with many eminent men, studied methods of work and of teaching, and the influence of this period of European study is seen in his after career. In 1873 he obtained the licentiate of the College of Physicians of London, in 1878 he was made a member of the college, and in 1884 was elected to the fellowship. In 1874 he returned to Montreal, was made lecturer on the institutes of medicine, and shortly afterwards was given the professorship. Under the institutes of medicine were comprised the courses in physiology and pathology, the latter limited to 20 lectures. At the end of 1874 he was made physician to the Small-pox Hospital, and in the following year, owing to the interest which he showed in comparative anatomy, the professorship of helminthology, in the Veterinary School of the university, was taken into his already full hands. I shall discuss here only his early work, extending through the first four years of the Montreal period. Beyond the bare facts, we know but little of his early education. In his various writings there are only scanty allusions to it save in the Toronto address, in which he mentions three men who were his...