Subseries KH/PP/13 - Papers, 1906, relating to Professor Sir William Osler including photographs

Key Information

Reference code

KH/PP/13

Title

Papers, 1906, relating to Professor Sir William Osler including photographs

Date(s)

  • 1906 (Creation)

Level of description

Subseries

Extent

1 file

Scope and content

Correspondence between William Osler and a friend, Mrs Parmalee, mostly family news, with typescript copy, 1906; manuscript copy of questions in the cojoint Oxford and Cambridge Boards physiology paper, 1906; two photographs of Osler in youth and old age.

General Information

Name of creator

(1849-1919)

Biographical history

Born, 1849; educated Trinity College, Toronto, University of Toronto, 1868-1870, McGill University, Montreal, 1870-1872, University College London, 1872-1873; Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, McGill University, 1874-1884; Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1884-1889; Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1889-1904; Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford, 1904-1919; elected to the Royal College of Physicians, 1884, and to the Royal Society, 1898; died, 1919.

Publications: The cerebral palsies of children (London, 1889) The principles and practice of medicine (Edinburgh, 1891); On Chorea and choreiform affections (London, 1894); Lectures on Angina Pectoris and allied states (New York, 1897); Cancer of the stomach. A clinical study (London, 1900); Aequanimitas. With other addresses to medical students, nurses and practitioners of medicine (London, 1904); The student life. A farewell address to Canadian and American medical students (Oxford, 1905); Counsels and ideals from the writings of William Osler (Oxford, 1905); The growth of truth, as illustrated in the discovery of the circulation of the blood (London, 1906); Science and immortality (London, 1906); An Alabama student, and other biographical essays (Oxford, 1908); Thomas Linacre (Cambridge, 1908); The treatment of disease (London, 1909); Incunabula medica. A study of the earlier printed medical books, 1467-1480 (London, 1923); The tuberculous soldier (London, 1961).

Custodial history

King's College Hospital.

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Physical Description

English

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Related materials

Johns Hopkins University Libraries: correspondence and papers, 1882-1919; McGill University, Osler Library: correspondence and papers; Yale University Libraries, Medical Library: papers, 1898-1918; Duke University Medical Library: letters and papers, 1902-1919; University of California Library, San Francisco: papers; Royal College of Physicians of London: papers; Bodleian Library, Oxford, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts: paper on the evolution of British Surgery, 1914 (Ref: Eng misc d 81); University of British Columbia, Woodward Biomedical Library: letters, 1889-1919; Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London: letters, 1874-1919 (Ref: PP/ESS and others).

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Archivist's note

Sources: British Library OPAC; National Register of Archives; Dictionary of national biography; Who's who. Compiled by Geoff Browell.

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