Word: osier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eager, warmhearted Canadian Dr. William Osier flipped a coin, to decide whether he should leave McGill University in Montreal to teach clinical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. It fell "heads"; he left...
Most doctors believe, with their sainted masters, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes,* Sir William Osier and Dr. William H. Welch, that the real originator of anesthesia was Dentist William Thomas Green Morton, a Boston contemporary of Dr. Long. From San Francisco last week Dr. Morton's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Bowditch Morton, filed her filial protest. "It's a strange thing," said she, "that Farley didn't consult with the U. S. Public Health Service.[He wants] to curry favor with the South during an election year...