Word: osier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brains. The brains of three brilliant scientists, Sir William Osier, Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Sylvester Morse, were earnestly examined by Dr. Henry Herbert Donaldson of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia. He hoped these mighty mentalities had left some physical traces on the twisted convolutions of their brains. The tortuous hills and valleys of the cerebral hemispheres were much alike; nothing could be inferred from them about the tastes and pursuits of the living minds. These are matters of the chemical relationships in the living tissue; death blots them out; the brains of dead men look very much...
...Osier, a Canadian lawyer who went through the motions necessary to form the Continental Trading...
...loaded with learning, he retains much of the liveliness of his body and mind and all the humanity of his wisdom. He is, as Dr. William Osier was at his death in 1919, the spokesman for modern medicine-the dean...
...Harvey Gushing, $1,000. His Life of William Osier was judged the best American biography...
...John Donne suggest a diversity of patients. Among the poets in the doctor's waiting-room are Blake, Keats and Poe. Weber and Fields are not too low nor is Eleanora Duse too exalted for attention. Among the best studies are those of Brigham Young, Theodore Roosevelt, Sir William Osier, James J. Corbett and George Cohan. Only a hint of the complete list may be gathered from these names...