One of the most important legacies of Sir William Osler was his textbook The Principles and
Practice of Medicine. A common criticism of the book when it was first published was its …

Sir William Osler (1849-1919), one of the world's most influential physicians at the turn of the
twentieth century, remained popular long after his death largely due to his inspirational texts …

Sir William Osler (1849-1919) had a long and distinguished career as a physician and
professor at McGill University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Johns Hopkins University …

Excerpt William Osler (1849 to 1919) is the most revered physician of our time and, perhaps,
of any time. Born and educated in Canada, his career bridged three nations and two …

Still reeling from the death of his only son in World War I, he had been asked to give the
presidential inaugural address of the Classical Association at Oxford. It was the first time a …

William Osler steered medical education towards knowledge of the natural history of disease
and the biological sciences that explain its course and characteristic symptoms. A …

Oslerian medicine is dead. He meant low-tech medicine, medicine expressed especially in
clinical sophistication based at the bedside, coupled with masterful command of most of the …

Abstract Although only 21 of Sir William Osler's 45 years in academic medicine were spent
in US medical schools (1884 to 1905), he played a major role in shaping modern medical …

IN HIS lifetime William Osler probably exerted a wider influence on his contemporaries in
medicine than any other man of his generation, and now, when physicians of America …

The first modern textbook of internal medicine was Osler'sThe Principles and Practice of
Medicine, published in 1892. This was made possible by the development of bacteriology in …