Word: osier
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They and their facilities make McGill, oldest of Canada's nine medical schools, incontestably the greatest.* This is as the late Sir William Osier wished. He taught there ten years before he went to the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins and Oxford, ordered his books and ashes returned there. McGill keeps them, under the guardianship of his cousin's son, Dr. William Willoughby Francis, in a quiet oak-paneled memorial room...
...others: William Henry Welch (who was 82 fortnight ago), the late Sir William Osier, the late William Stewart Halsted...
Died, Austin O'Malley, M. D., 73, scientist, oculist, author, brother of Writer Frank Ward O'Malley; of arteriosclerosis after a lingering illness; in Philadelphia. As a young bacteriologist, he was credited by Sir William Osier with being the foremost figure in the U. S. in arousing medical interest in the then new diphtheria antitoxin. For seven years he was Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame. Forced to resign because of poor health, he researched in eye diseases, gained fame as an oculist...
Since most university librarians feel that their needs are never very lavishly attended to, they must rely, for anything more than bare necessities, upon outside gifts. Oxford University has its Friends of the Bodleian Library, founded by the late Sir William Osier, who was curator of that most scholarly of English-speaking collegiate libraries. To Harvard has come $216,742 in gifts through its Friends of the Library, founded in 1925 by a group of alumni at a dinner in honor of the late Archibald Gary Coolidge, then Harvard librarian. The Friends of the Columbia Library, formed...
...many men have received such formal homage while they were alive. Among the few are: the late William Osier when he was teaching at Johns Hopkins; Harvey Gushing, Harvard's brain surgeon; the late Abraham Jacobi of Columbia, founder of pediatrics (children's diseases) ; Carl Gustaf A. Forssell, radiologist of Sweden; Albert Sigmund Gustav Döderline, gynecologist of Germany. And now Cancer Man Ewing of Cornell...