Description: The Portraiture of Sir William Osler - Alex Sakula. Hardback book with dust jacket in very good condition -owner’s name. Published by Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd, 1991 ISBN 10: 185315153X Harvey Cushing wrote a Pulitzer prize-winning biography of Sir William Osler in 1925, and it was followed by John Fulton's equally brilliant biography of Harvey Cushing. Both biographies vividly encapsulated the contribution of the new Johns Hopkins Hospital to the growth of academic medicine in the United States at the turn of the century, and also beyond, because these biographies have influenced many students worldwide to continue the trial of scientific medicine at its intellectual best. William Osler held professorships at McGill, Pennsylvania, the Johns Hopkins and finally the Regius Chair of Medicine at Oxford. His textbook The Principles and Practice of Medicine appeared in 1892 and its numerous editions became a world best-seller in the days when authors really were single authors. Dr Alex Sakula has now provided the world with the perfect reminder of Osler at just the right time, for nowadays postgraduates are too busy to remember him and students have never even heard of Osler. In a delightful preface, Alex Sakula unfolds his own attachments to Osler since 1937 when, as a student, he earned a prize copy of Osler's textbook and went on to become President of the Osler Club of London. He has now immortalized his links with Osler by producing a superb Portraiture, published by the Royal Society of Medicine.' It will be enjoyed with affection and familiarity by Oslerians worldwide; but more important it will introduce the great Sir William to a new generation of heathens, who had never heard of him. All known portraits, mostly from life but some posthumous, in oils or water colour, charcoal sketches, busts, plaques, medallions and medals have been included. Osler had a sallow complexion, drooping moustache, and was balding, so he appeared sombre at first sight, but he was known to have a twinkle in his eye, heart and mind as we know from his alter-ego Egerton Yorrick Davis. It is said that William Harvey had a similar olive-green complexion. _gsrx_vers_1608 (GS 9.5 (1608))
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Book Title: The Portraiture of Sir William Osler
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