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...Haven Hospital, where Sheridan was taken in an ambulance, he was attended by three doctors, one of whom was Dr. Harvey Cushing, famed brain and nerve specialist. The great Yaleman and disciple of the late great Sir William Osler was in New Haven for a surgeons' conference on the day of the game. Dr. Cushing found that Sheridan had a broken neck, said he might live, under artificial respiration, for minutes, hours or days. After 48 hours he died. He was buried with full military honors due a soldier fallen in the Service of his country...
...there was a pail of milk close at hand, for which they both struggled, and into which he tumbled and was nearly drowned." Thus Mrs. Edith Gittings Reid, wife of Harry Fielding Reid, Johns Hopkins professor of dynamic geology & geography, begins The Great Physician: A Life of Sir William Osler, published last fortnight.- Her book is briefer (293 pp.) than Harvey Williams Cushing's two-volume year-by-year life (1,413 pp.). Yet she gives a full picture of "the greatest physician in history." She quotes Dr. William Henry Welch, who brought Osler to help found Johns Hopkins...
...joviality, learning, stimulation and insight that his every patient, student and colleague revered Sir William Osler as a demigod. For more than a decade (he died in 1919 at Oxford whither he had gone from Johns Hopkins), Medicine has agreed that there never was a studious, teaching practitioner like him. A request for a list of living U. S. doctors who approach Osler in knowledge, expertness and teaching last week brought answers from a jury representative of the profession. Out of 36 different names suggested as great in the U. S., the jury agreed only on the Brothers Mayo...
...Johns Hopkins, Osler maintained that a prospective student should enter Medicine "with the same spirit that the missionary leaves for his foreign field." It is questionable how many would-be doctors are thoroughly imbued with such an attitude today. Doubtless a great number find the prospects of a fairly lucrative and respectable profession more enticing than a life devoted to human welfare, whatever the personal sacrifice. One can hardly expect any other attitude in an age when material success is so highly prized, but the situation does not tend toward keeping up the high-grade morale demanded by the Medical...
There is on record only one unfavorable remark by "Popsy" Welch about another human being. Years ago he was told of a highly disparaging remark made about his colleague Dr. Osler by a Continental scientist. A few years later Dr. Welch was asked to express an opinion about the detractor. For a long time he hesitated, then mumbled in a hesitating voice that he must be "a terrible person...