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Asked last week to name his favorite fighter, Commissioner Powell picked Sir William Osier...
...illustrated volumes in the world. The book is Andreas Vesalius' The Fabric of the Human Body, printed in Basel just 400 years ago. This work visualized for the first time in history the true structure of the human form and was called by the late, great Sir William Osier "the greatest medical book ever written-from which modern medicine starts." For its woodcut pictures, the volume is of similar luster to artists and connoisseurs...
...went to Johns Hopkins as first full-time member of its medical faculty. His friends in New York tried to persuade him not to bury himself in a little, unknown Baltimore school. But the little school attracted not only young Dr. Welch but such giants as famed Clinician William Osier, Surgeon William Stewart Halsted, Gynecologist Howard Atwood Kelly. It grew with them to world fame...
Sprawling next to the new University Hospital were the ramshackle buildings of Blockley (Philadelphia General Hospital), oldest in the U. S. (founded 1732). Near Blockley's rear gate was a narrow, two-story, red brick building, the old autopsy house. There Dr. Osier went every afternoon, a top hat on the back of his head, a pack of adoring students at his heels. In a bare room furnished only with a storage vault and a ston'e table, he cut up corpses the old janitor had saved...
Last week, 1,000 doctors from all over the U. S. crowded around Blockley quadrangle as the old autopsy house, patched up and fitted out with Dr. Osier's medical instruments, was dedicated as the Osier Memorial Building. Chief speaker was Dr. Osier's friend, Professor William George MacCallum of Johns Hopkins. Among the speakers was one of Dr. Osier's interns, 82-year-old Dr. William Ellery Hughes, dean of Philadelphia physicians. Said he: "This new place may be more efficient but it doesn't have the same smells...