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...tidy campus on the edge of Baltimore went Poet Sidney Lanier, Viscount Bryce, and James Russell Lowell to teach or lecture. Woodrow Wilson, John Dewey and Walter Reed studied there. Its medical school, which often overshadowed the rest of it, also had its prophets: famed Physician William Osier, Gynecologist Howard A. Kelly, Pathologist William H. Welch, Surgeon William S. Halsted...
...Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. . . . It had been woven of osier by the Incas more than a century ago. . . . St. Louis of France protected it. . . . It was unthinkable that it should break...
...years ago, Abner McGehee Harvey, his M.D. degree so new he had barely had time to frame it, was an intern at Johns Hopkins hospital. Last week, at 34, Abner Harvey became the hospital's physician in chief. Appointed to Sir William Osier's old chair of medicine at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Harvey had won a post as honored by doctors as a Supreme Court robe is by lawyers...
...have been. Even though such prestige-heavy professorships usually go to more experienced men, Johns Hopkins acquired its early fame through the work of four comparative youngsters, the original "Big Four": William Henry Welch (who began at 43), William Stewart Halsted (41), Howard Atwood Kelly (35), and Sir William Osier* (44). Dr. Harvey is young enough to carry on the tradition. He is also able enough to carry on the good work...
Ellis In, Osier Out. Most of the verse Anthologist McDonough found was very bad indeed: she left out 20 poor poems for every good or fair one she put in. Such doctors as Edward Jenner (vaccination pioneer) and Havelock Ellis made the grade, but a list of all the doctor-poets the anthologist uncovered shows that such poetasters as William Harvey. Hippocrates, Sir William Osier, Rabelais and Morris Fishbein failed to satisfy Mrs. McDonough's critical taste. Nonetheless, a lot of doggerel got in. One of the most amusing contemporary specimens is John Fallon's Inscription...