Biography of Sir William Osler


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Osler, Sir William. Physician, educator, author. Born in Bondhead, Ontario, 1849. Graduate of McGill, Montreal, 1872 (LL. D., McGill, Toronto, University of Edinburgh, University of Aberdeen, Harvard, Yale; D. Sc., Oxford). Professor of institutes of medicine, McGill University, 1874-84; professor of clinical medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1884-89; professor of medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1889-1905. Became Regius professor of medicine, Oxford University, England, in 1905. Author: "The Cerebral Palsies of Children," "Chorea and Choreiform Affections," "Lectures on Abdominal Tumors," "Angina Pectoris and Allied States," "The Principles and Practice of Medicine," "Cancer of the Stomach," "Science and Immortality," (Ingersoll lecture, Harvard University), "Aequanimitas, and Other Addresses." Died 1919.