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JAMES B. HERRICK, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1949;84(1):46-50.

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BEFORE 1892, the name of William Osler meant but little to me; he was simply one of the teachers in the new medical school in Baltimore. But when, in that year, he published his textbook, "The Principles and Practice of Medicine,"¹ all was changed. After reading its 1,079 pages, I wrote a long, laudatory review, which closed with the statement that it was not extravagant praise to call it the best textbook in English on the practice of medicine. At that time I was 31. Today, at 87, I still believe my early opinion was justified. The textbook's successive editions have well deserved the blue ribbon award of merit.

It must have been about 1898 when I first met William Osler in person. For no good reason I had pictured him as of the dignified, unapproachable type, rather paunchy and burly, perhaps with muttonchop whiskers. One day, as I . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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