Osler quotes redux
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* Ken Flegel, MDCM MSc

*   © 2008 Canadian Medical Association

**The Quotable Osler** Deluxe Edition; Mark E. Silverman, T. Jock Murray, Charles S. Bryan, editors; $89.95

This deluxe release of the 2003 paperback “repository of Oslerian sound bites” (*CMAJ* 2003;168:745-6), at twice the price, is clearly designed and timed to sell, perhaps as a presentation to the graduate or recently promoted. Leather binding, gold print and edging and a ribbon bookmark give it that authentic look. Marbled endpaper completes the luxurious effect.

For the scholar of Osleriana, what is new here is the recent discovery at McGill's Osler Library of a handwritten address to entering medical students in Philadelphia in 1885. From it “forty eloquent remarks” have been added, as well as 10 from other sources. Which these are and where they occur is left unclear. However, on page 32, one reads the first of the Philadelphia quotes and learns that the address was published privately by the Osler Library in 2006. Also featured are “never-before-published “photographs, though, again, which these are is not stated. (I could find only 3 that I do not recall seeing in other publications). Still, it is a lovely book if you're looking for a special treat for someone.