Word: osler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William Osler, probably the greatest medical teacher who ever lived, once warned his profession that the fate of the tubercular depended more on what they had in their heads than on what was in their chests. ... A germ or a peculiar condition of body cells is [not] the sum and substance of disease...
Wanted: Freedom. Last week, as he stepped up to receive the Passano award in Baltimore's historic Osler Hall of Maryland Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, Ernest Goodpasture saw an opportunity to expound some theories about research developed in the years on the "Endless Frontier." In a philosophic, rambling and often brilliant address, he deplored the fact that researchers are too often hamstrung by special "projects," are not permitted to follow their own keen noses. Exploratory research, said he, entails relatively great financial risk, but these risks must be met if medicine is to serve humanity and not a social...
...William Osler, a Canadian, was made a baronet in 1911 after leaving Johns Hopkins to become regius professor of medicine at Oxford...
...last of the Big Four- Welch, Halsted, Osler and Kelly - who headed the original faculty when Johns Hopkins Medical School was founded in 1893, was Gynecologist Howard Atwood Kelly; he died...
...Kelly began practice in Philadelphia. In two small rooms of a dingy frame house in a mill section, he opened a small hospital,† performed abdominal operations so skillfully that other surgeons came to watch. After a year in Europe starting in 1886, the doctor was suggested by Dr. Osler for the Hopkins chairs of gynecology and obstetrics...