Artigo Revisado por pares

Halsted of Johns Hopkins

1969; American Medical Association; Volume: 210; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/jama.210.12.2214

ISSN

1538-3598

Autores

W. Penfield,

Tópico(s)

History of Medical Practice

Resumo

Sir William Osler was the Professor of Medicine in the universities of McGill, Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, and Oxford in brilliant succession. His library of rare books on the history of medicine, collected in Oxford, came to McGill after his death, and Dr. William Francis, Osler's cousin and literary executor, came with them. Francis completed the catalogues, Bibliotheca Osleriana , and lived out his life, from 1929 onward, in Montreal as curator and librarian of the Osler Library. 1 Among the treasures in his care was a small black book closed with a lock and key of silver. Osler had advised Francis that its contents (he called them the "secret history") should not be disclosed until the 100th anniversary of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1989. But Francis, as his literary executor, decided otherwise. He read the book and in 1958 wrote, "Now that everyone mentioned in it is dead," it should

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