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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...
Medical editors frown upon literary graces as Puritans frowned upon dancing. Almost all medical reports are warty with Greek and Latin jargon: "Etiologic factors" for "causes," "acute coryza" for "the common cold," "osseous structures" for "bones." Yet the modern physician's bible, Sir William Osier's Principles and Practice of Medicine, is a model of warm and lucid prose-human language conveying the fears and torments of sick human beings...
Even doctors, some of whom have been "terrible sufferers," find it hard to speak of gout with a straight face. Some, like their patients, pride themselves on their virile infirmity. Osier quotes approvingly Germany's Willibald Pirkheimer (translated into English in 1617) : "I take no pleasure," he wrote, "in those hard, rough, rusticke, agresticke kind of people who are never at rest, but ... are moyling and toyling, do seldom or never give themselves to pleasure, do endure hunger, which are content with a slender diet...
...Cushing, reticent and aloof, made few friends. He lived for medicine. But at the Hopkins he forged a lifelong bond with Hopkins Founders William Stewart Halsted and William Osier, both much older than he. After Sir William Osier's death, in 1919, Lady Osier persuaded Dr. Cushing to write her husband's biography. Dr. Cushing reluctantly set to work, appropriated an enormous laundry table from the cellar, piled it high with boxes full of notes, set about retrieving Dr. Osier's myriad postcards (he rarely wrote letters). Much to the surprise of Dr. Cushing and his family...