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Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, FRS FRCP (/ ˈ ɒ z l ər /; July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the "Big Four" founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Jul 8, 2024 · Sir William Osler, Baronet was a Canadian physician and professor of medicine who practiced and taught in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain and whose book The Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892) was a leading textbook.
More than any other single figure, William Osler defined the framework for medicine in the 20th century. His remarkable insights and influence established an approach to bedside medicine that brought the field firmly into the scientific arena for the first time.
A scientist, doctor and teacher, Osler never made any major medical discoveries. But he wrote a landmark medical textbook, reformed medical education, and changed the lives of multitudes.
Dec 20, 2014 · William Osler (1849–1919) was born in rural Ontario, Canada, the son of an Anglican clergyman. Shaped by boyhood access to a microscope, studies of polyzoa, and later exposures to Sir Thomas Browne, Osler chose medicine.
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Professor of clinical medicine 1884-1889. William Osler, physician, educator, and medical historian, was born in Bond Head, Ontario, Canada, on July 12, 1849, the son of an Anglican priest, Featherstone Lake Osler, and Ellen Free Pickton, both of Cornwall, England.
William Osler. 1849-1919. Osler, founding physician-in-chief at Johns Hopkins, was born in a remote part of Ontario known as Bond Head. He spent a year at Trinity College in Ontario before deciding on a career in medicine.
Dec 4, 2019 · A century after his death, Sir William Osler is revered for his efforts to place clinical medicine on a rational foundation, his transformation of graduate medical education, and his attempt to...
Oct 28, 2000 · When Sir William Osler died in 1919 he was widely judged to have been among the greatest physicians of all time. It is hard to imagine any present day doctor attracting such near universal adulation. Osler's life thus presents the historian with a fascinating problem: what was it that enabled a single figure to loom so large in the professional ...
