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WILDER PENFIELD, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1949;84(1):104-109.

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ONE HUNDRED years after the birth of William Osler is a fitting time to revive old memories of the master of clinical medicine, and a good time also to bring forward new knowledge of him. During the later years of his life he was a hero to the rising generation of medical men, and after his death biographers heaped his shrine high with tributes, higher than the hero himself would have liked, no doubt. And so, for those who did not know him, I fear this fulsome praise may have obscured the simplicity and the charm of the man.

Some of the material to be presented here may seem sophomoric; but it is new, for contemporary descriptions of Osler by his own students are rare. Perhaps this is because greatness close at hand may pass as commonplace; perhaps it is only that the undergraduate perceives the danger of expressing his . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MONTREAL, CANADA

From the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, and the Montreal Neurological Institute.

Footnotes
A portion of this essay was read before the meeting of the Osler Society of the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 24, 1941, and the paper was subsequently published (Penfield, W.: Sir William Osler, Univ. West. Ontario M. J. 11:79-88 [March] 1941).

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