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Much resembling the late Sir William Osier in his combination of the highest medical reputation with the surest literary touch, Dr. William H. Welch, aged 75, last week left his modest home in Baltimore, traveled to Manhattan. He went upon an errand dear to his heart, to speak a word which should carry across the distance between scientist and sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Woeful Distribution | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

Among people of mediocre intelligence, Sir William Osier is chiefly remembered today as "the doctor who said that a man at 60 ought to be chloroformed." OSLER RECOMMENDS CHLOROFORM AT SIXTY blared the newspapers of the U. S. and Canada on a certain February morning in 1905. Dr. Osier had delivered an address in Baltimore the night previous. This is what he actually said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Osler | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

...Study the Tobacco Problem, organized in 1918, a group of 59 physicians, psychologists, physiologists, economists, educators and other leaders interested in the subject. The president is Dr. Alexander Lambert, New York; the treasurer, Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale. Two of the original members, John Burroughs and Sir William Osier, have died. While the committee contains a number of men widely known for their opposition to tobacco, such as Henry Ford, Hudson Maxim, Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, it has determined to get at the truth?if it can be obtained? by rigorous experimental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacconalia | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

Oxonian tribute to the late Sir William Osier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: May 5, 1923 | 5/5/1923 | See Source »

...memorial to the late Sir William Osier, Oxford University will place a bronze plaque in the University Museum, award a medal every five years to an Oxford graduate distinguished in medical science and form a fund to assist medical teachers to study aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Osier | 5/5/1923 | See Source »

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