This example set by Osler can be followed by all men. It added a great deal to the happiness of mankind. He furnished a magnificent exemplification of the meaning of that phrase "being all things to all men.' It was for this quality that those of us who knew him personally will continue to cherish his memory until we ourselves have passed over. JAMES J. WALSH. "Enshrined in the Hearts of Medical Men in Two Continents." In presenting this brief or tribute to the memory of Sir William Osler, I feel that little new can be added to the spontaneous and world-wide expressions of appreciation of his life work and regret at his death, of sincere admiration of his very lovable character and always stimulating influence on the profession, both in Canada and the United States. Graduating the year before he did, my knowledge of him as a student was only slight. In his class he was always respected for his thoroness in whatever he attempted. His graduating thesis was on The Value of Pathological Anatomy, and was accompanied by beautifully dissected illustrative specimens which still hold a prominent place in our museum. During the ten years spent in Montreal after graduation, he was the stimulating center of a small group of active and brilliant young men connected with McGill, most of whom are now dead; men whose character and teaching had a great influence for good on the professsion in Montreal and thruout Canada. When settled in Philadelphia, and afterwards at Johns Hopkins Hospital, he never forgot his friends or even acquaintances. Indeed, he had a wonderful way of treating the greater number of the latter as his most sincere friends. No one ever left his ward without being cheered and stimulated to further endeavor. The American profession has had many notable men in its ranks. Boston and Philadelphia have had graduates whose names are enrolled in our medical Hall of Fame. No man, however, that I can remember has done more to enrich medicine by keen observation, more to stimulate the general uplift of our profession thruout our country, or has, withal so enshrined himself in the hearts of medical men in two continents, and wherever the English language is spoken. A. D. BLACKADER. "Only Those Who Were Privileged to Live With Him Can Fully Appreciate the Moral Ascendancy of His Personality." There are certain influences upon our lives that we cherish as the most sacred of our possessions. Among such influences upon himself the writer includes the instruction received from Sir William Osler, the opportunity for personal association that he so freely allowed, the stimulation to higher and nobler effort that his way of life aroused in one permitted closely to observe it and, above all, the constraining power of a friendship that called forth always from those to whom it was granted the best they had to give. Future generations will praise the work and influence of this man, but only those who were privileged to live for a time in close contact with him, can ever fully appreciate his subtle beneficence or the moral ascendancy of his personality. LEWELLYS F. BARKER. Sir William Osler at Oxford.-Sir William Osler will be best known to posterity as a great teacher of medicine. The deceased Canadian physician was as well known in America as in Great Britain, but a brief account of his work at Oxford may be of interest to American medical men in general. His tenure of the Regius Chair of Medicine at the great English University was fruitful and remarkable in many ways. It is pointed out in an elegant tribute to him in the London Times of December 30, that when he came to Oxford in 1905 as a stranger he found the Medical School at a very important period of its development, and he at once recognized its possibilities and devoted himself to the solution of its problems. By his enthusiasm and the charm of his personality he brought about more close and intimate relations between the University and graduates in London teaching schools and thus prevented the possibility of a breach which was in some danger of arising. Osler in his efforts to make of Oxford a great medical school, nevertheless carried on the traditions of his predecessors, and his greatest contribution to Oxford medical studies lay in the development of clinical teaching, while the improvement in clinical teaching owed not a little to his friendships with Oxford doctors. However, his teaching was not confined to clinical medicine, for his own wide intellectual interests led him to regard it as essential that a student should care about the history of his subject, and he gathered young students about him in his own house and used his own valuable library of early medical works to awaken their interest. The personality of Sir William Osler was the characteristic which perhaps made the deepest and most lasting impression. He possessed a perfect genius for friendship and the power of retaining a vivid recollection of all who were brought into contact with him. It may be emphasized that he was specially the friend of Colonial and American undergraduates.-Medical Record. Osler's Principles and Practice of Medicine. In his magnum opus, says C. F. Martin in the Canadian Med. Assn. Jour., July, 1920, "The Principles and Practice of Medicine," he has revealed with translucent clearness his exceptional attainments as a teacher. "The printed page," he says, "has brought me mind to mind with men in all parts of the world, and to feel that I have been helpful in promoting sound knowledge is my greatest satisfaction." This great work, the best text-book ever written, a veritable store-house of information, enriched with redundant reference from his own clinical experience and with a mass of historical data most marvelously condensed-these afford ample evidence of his greatness as a teacher, as a clinician, and as a source of inspiration to all privileged to come under the spell of his versatile and matured genius. But above all else, it was as a man, as a personal inspirer, that his power as a teacher was most conspicuously manifest. For above all the forces that made for progress in British and American medicine was this personal factor, the indefinable power of a genial rounded and masterful personality. Thus it was that by "adding probity to learning sagacity and humanity, he reached the full stature of the Hippocratean physician." His exceptional ability as a clinician and teacher was singularly enhanced and perfected by the breadth of his sympathies as cosmopolitan as they were genuine, and certain to preserve him in the affection of all who experienced his solicitous concern for their good. His was a personality robust, strong and tender, the tenderness gaining added beauty from the strength. from the strength. Moreover, his intellectual power was matched by unusual moral force the whole crowned with that grace of humility which is ever the supreme mark of a great character. And thus it is true that we can understand how he was enabled to maintain, despite all the experience in his professional career that tempted to cynicism and pessimism, a robust and rational optimism which, while frankly recognizing existing evils, enabled him to see beyond them to the forces that make for truth and goodness in the world. His was a life lived truly, fully, progressively, lovingly, with no anger at criticism, no catering to popular standards, no desire for mammon, no falseness to his ideals, and no surrender to a life of indolence-a life steeped in tireless unselfish service and in radiant hope. To him we may fittingly apply the words recorded by our most distinguished modern poet in the last verse of the last poem from his pen "One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, tho right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." One of Osler's Mottoes.-In one of his farewell addresses Sir William Osler concludes: "I have loved no darkness, Sophisticated no truth, Nursed no delusion. Allowed no fear." A year ago, on December 29th, Sir Wil- United States." Henry Barton Jacobs, This issue of the Bulletin is handsomely |