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”William Osler, the younger son in a family of 9, was born on 12 July 1849 in a parsonage at Bond Head, Tecumseth County near the edge of the wilderness in what was Upper Canada. How this came about, as to place, time and circumstances, needs telling from the very beginning.” It was with these words that Harvey Cushing began The Life of Sir William Osler, the autobiography for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. Osler was at various times Professor Medicine at McGill (at the age of 26), the University of Pennsylvania, John Hopkins, and finally Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. He was one of the first to describe platelets (1876) … |
