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Contributions to medical and biological research
Contributions to medical and biological research Author:Sir William Osler Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ON THE PROBLEM OF GRADUATE MEDICAL STUDY IN LONDON By J. G. Adami, M.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., Montreal, Canada IN these latter days, when the patr... more »on of letters and of men of letters no longer exists, and with his departure from the scene there has departed the need to recognise his largesse, the dedication of a volume is no longer a necessity, but a luxury. It has become a spontaneous or free-will offering, and as such is apt happily to disclose the soul of the author. There are few of us medical men to whom the dedication of Osler's "Medicine" does not appeal: TO THE fUemorp of mp QTeadjcrS: WILLIAM ARTHUR JOHNSON, PRIEST OF THE PARISH OF WE8TON, ONTARIO. JAMES BOVELL, OF THE TORONTO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, AND OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, TORONTO. ROBERT PALMER HOWARD, DEAN OF THE MEDICAL FACULTY AND PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE, MC QILL UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL. We know full well that what we have accomplished and what we are depend largely upon the influence of certain of our old teachers. They it is who carried on the flame, lighting, or tending, the light that is within us—such as it is. As a member of the Faculty of that school in which Sir William gained his training in clinical medicine, in which he held his first chair, in which, indeed, it pleases me to think that a fourth part, orso, of his mantle, when he was called higher, eventually fell to me,1 there would have been a certain appropriateness had I, in these pages, traced the influence of the great Montreal teacher, commemorated in that dedication, upon Osler and upon his generation in Canada. For his influence was great, and like that of those others who have depended more upon the spoken than the written word, its memory is apt to fall into oblivion. But Palmer Howard had b...« less