Osler, Sir William

Osler, Sir William
born July 12, 1849, Bond Head, Canada West, Can.
died Dec. 29, 1919, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Eng.

Canadian physician and professor.

He became the first to identify blood platelets (1873) and later taught at the medical school at McGill University (1875–84) and then at Johns Hopkins University's medical school (1889–1905). There he helped transform clinical teaching; students studied patients in the wards and took their problems to the lab, and experts pooled their knowledge to benefit both patient and student in public teaching sessions. Osler's Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892) became the most popular medical textbook of its day. He was involved in the formation of two physicians' associations and the Quarterly Journal of Medicine. Osler nodes on the hand are seen in some cardiac infections, and two blood disorders also bear his name.

William Osler, at the bedside of a patient, while professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, ...

Courtesy of the Osler Library, McGill University, Montreal

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