Texts of William Osler's Writings

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• Aequanimitas. Aequanimitas with other Addresses to Medical Students, Nurses and Practitioners of Medicine. H.K.Lewis, London, 1904. pages 1-11.   ◊e-text
• After Twenty-five Years: An Address at the Opening of the Session of the Medical Faculty, McGill University, Sept. 21st, 1899. Reprint from The Montreal Medical Journal, November, 1899.   ◊e-text
• The Army Doctor. Reprint from The Medical News, March 24, 1894.   ◊e-text
• Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. Yale Publishing Association, New Haven, Conn. reprinted, 1914.   ◊e-text
• Cancer of the Stomach. H.K. Lewis, London, 1900. With Thomas McCrae   ◊e-text
• The Cerebral Palsies of Children. P. Blakiston, Philadelphia, 1889.   ◊e-text
• A Concise History of Medicine. Encyclopeadia Americana Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1919.   ◊e-text
• Christmas and the Microscope, February 1, 1869. Hardwicke's Science-Gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for the Students and Lovers of Nature, page 44, London, 1870. (The first published article by Osler.)   ◊e-text
• In Memoriam William Pepper. Reprint from The Philadelphi Medical Journal, March 18, 1899.   ◊e-text
• John Keats The Apothecary Poet. The Friedenwald Company, Baltimore, 1896.   ◊e-text
• Lectures on Angina Pectoris and Allied States. D. Appleton, New York, 1897.   ◊e-text
• Lectures on the Diagnosis of Abdominal Tumors. D. Appleton, New York, 1895.   ◊e-text
• Man's Redemption of Man. Constable and Company, Ltd., London, 1910.   ◊e-text
• Michael Servetus. Oxford University Press, London, 1909.   ◊e-text
• Montreal General Hospital: Pathological Report for the Year ending May 14, 1877. Dawson Brothers, Montreal, 1878.   ◊e-text
• Of the Educational Value of the Medical Society. From Original Paper, 1898-1906.   ◊e-text
• The Old Humanities and the New Science. John Murray, London, 1919.   ◊e-text
• On Chorea and Choreiform Affections. H.K. Lewis, London, 1894.   ◊e-text
• Original Papers, 1881-1897.  ◊e-text
• Original Papers, 1898-1906.  ◊e-text
• Original Papers, 1907-1919.  ◊e-text
• Principles and Practice of Medicine (1st edition). D. Appleton, New York, 1892.   ◊e-text
• Principles and Practice of Medicine (4th edition). D. Appleton, New York, 1901.  ◊e-text
• 1902 Examination Paper for William Osler's Principles and Practice of Medicine, 4th edition.  ◊e-text
• Remarks on Specialism. Address made at the opening of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Society, Boston, May 2, 1892. Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 126: 19, 457-459.  ◊e-text: PDF image.   ◊e-text: PDF searchable text.
• Science and Immortality. Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1904.   ◊e-text
• Teaching and Thinking: The Two Functions of a Medical School. Reprinted from the Montreal Medical News, February, 1895.   ◊e-text
• Thomas Dover (of Dover's Powder) Physician and Buccaneer. The Friedenwald Company, Baltimore, 1896.   ◊e-text
• Thomas Linacre. University Press, Cambridge, 1908.   ◊e-text
• Unity, Peace and Concord: A Farewell Address to the Medical Profession of the United States, Oxford, 1903.   ◊e-text
• Vienna after thirty-four years. 1908. The Journal of the American Medical Association, v. 50, p. 1523, 1908 Reprint.   ◊e-text

Images of William Osler

Saint Osler	Welch Rabbits	Cover of JAMA	With Fellow Officers
Last Studio Portrait	Print Ad	Postcard	Sal-Codeia Bell
In Front of Fireplace	Open Arms fireplace

Quotes from William Osler

• "The killing vice of the young doctor is intellectual laziness."
  On the educational value of the medical society, in Aequanimitas:With other addresses to medical students... 3rd ed.(Philadelphia: Blakiston's Son, 1932) p.334.
  
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• "Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition."
  After twenty-five years, in Aequanimitas:With other addresses to medical students...3rd ed.(Philadelphia: Blakiston's Son, 1932) p.204.
  
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• "The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course,not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation."
  The student life, in Aequanimitas:With other addresses to medical students...3rd ed.(Philadelphia: Blakiston's Son, 1932) p.400.
  
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• "Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers."
  The student life, in Aequanimitas:With other addresses to medical students...3rd ed.(Philadelphia: Blakiston's Son, 1932) p.406.
  
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• "It goes without saying that no man can teach successfully who is not at the same time a student."
  The student life, in Aequanimitas:With other addresses to medical students...3rd ed.(Philadelphia: Blakiston's Son, 1932) p.419.
  

External Links

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Biography

• Biography   The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
• Osler, Sir William   Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Sir William Osler   Osler Library of the History of Medicine McGill Library and Collections
• Sir William Osler   Osler House Club
• Sir William Osler   Wikipedia

Online Texts

• Aequanimitas, With Other Addresses to Medical Students, Nurses and Practitioners of Medicine.   ◊e-text The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
• An Alabama Student and Other Biographical Essays.   ◊e-text The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
• The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913.   ◊e-text Project Gutenberg   ◊e-text Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
• Nurse and Patient.   ◊e-text Early Canadian Online
• The Old Humanities and The New Science.   ◊e-text The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Associations/Organizations

• American Osler Society
• The Osler Club of London