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...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...
...William Osier (1849-1919), Canadian, was a great teacher in the U. S. and England; wrote extensively. Most of these men lived to a ripe old age, to study, heal and teach. Of the moderns, Lister and Morgagni were 85 years old at death. (Hippocrates was either 99 or 73 according to conflicting dim reports of his life.) The youngest to die was Laennec...
...Harvey Gushing of Harvard (famed author of The Life of Sir William Osier) announced his discovery that the pituitary gland (at base of brain) is regulator of the body's water supply; when the gland's functioning was suspended, all control was lost over liquid secretions...