SIR WILLIAM BLIZARD AND HIS POEMS

Sir William Osler and his Welsh connections.

to Canada with his young bride, Ellen Free Pickton. She was a native of London, but bore a distinguished Welsh name. William was the youngest of their family of nine, and was born in the parsonage at Bond Head in Tecumseth County in the backwoods of Upper Canada. Uncle Edward was the eldest of the nine children of Grandfather Osler. He was a favourite uncle, of whom WO wrote 'we cherished an am...

Sir William Osler: Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings

This book is a collection of abstracts of the world literature in surgery written by the abstract and news editor of the Journal of the International College of Surgeons. The volume is attractive in format and is easy to use. Complete references are listed at the end of each abstracted article, most of which were published in 1949. The papers were chosen on the basis of the unusual, the interes...

Sir William Ramsay

Whither Sir William?

There are times when something is simply so familiar that we can no longer see it at all. It can be a story, or a concept, or even a flesh-and-blood person. Familiarity breeds not only contempt, but a kind of invisibility as well. For too many of us, such is the case with Sir William Osler. In his time (1849–1919), many considered him to be one of the greatest practitioners, teachers, and write...

Sir William Whitla

IT is written in the Bible that wve should take time "to praise famous men and our fathers that begat us." This year-the centenary year of the Ulster Medical Society-seemed an appropriate point of time for such remembrance and reflection. I chose, therefore, the name of one, William Whitla, a past President and benefactor of our Society, as the subject of my address. On 11th December, 1933, Sir...