William Osler correspondence collection, 1888-1919 1888-1919

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William Osler correspondence collection, 1888-1919 1888-1919

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Autograph letters (original) of William Osler to faculty of the Medical Department, Washington University (St. Louis), 1903-1915. The letters include the following: 1) Three letters from William Osler to Jesse Myer concerning the introduction to Myer's book on William Beaumont and the disposition of the William Beaumont papers, 1912; 2) One letter from William Osler to Dr. Lutz (Frank J. Lutz), 1903 re: Medical Congress. 3) Two letters from Osler to Nathaniel Allison concerning Osler's honorary membership in the "history club" (1907) and the death of Osler's son Revere (1917); 3) Letters from Sir Wm Osler to Dear George Dock, 15 March 1915 and 6 June 1915 re: Beaumont Papers). Also includes photocopies of correspondence, 1888-1919, between Osler (1849-1919) and William Dock (1860-1951): 103 items of unknown provenance, other than the certain fact they were found among collections acquired by a former Rare Book Librarian, who assigned a rare collections accession number, 1993-029. Since the original autograph items in PC023 were also of varied provenance, there was no reason not to store these photocopies in the same collection)

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Washington University in St. Louis, Bernard Becker Medical Library

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Washington University in St. Louis, Bernard Becker Medical Library

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Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). School of Medicine.

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Dock, George, 1860-1951

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George Dock was born in Hopewell, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1860. He received his B.A. Degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1881, where he later entered the school of medicine and received his M.D. in 1884. He spent his internship at St. Mary's Hospital in Philadelphia. He spent roughly two years, 1885 to 1887, in Germany studying with some of the outstanding professors of the day. When he returned to Philadelphia, he was hired by Drs. John Herr Musser and William Osler to conduct autopsie...

Myer, Jesse S. (Jesse Shire), 1873-1913

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St. Louis internist. Jesse S. Myer was born in Salisbury, Missouri, in 1873. He graduated from the University of Missouri (AB, 1893) and from the Marion Sims College of Medicine (MD, 1896), He took postgraduate courses in medicine at German universities, notably Heidelberg (1897-1898), and a residency at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. In 1898 he entered the private practice of medicine in St. Louis and also taught in the Washington University Medical...

Beaumont, William, 1785-1853

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Physician and physiologist. From the description of William Beaumont collection, 1834-[ca. 1879]. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52247530 A native of Lebanon, Connecticut, Beaumont was certified to practice medicine by the Third Medical Society of Vermont in 1812. He served in the army during the War of 1812 and from 1819 to 1839 was an army medical officer. During that time he served at posts in the midwest including Fort Mackinac, Michigan; Fort Niaga...

Allison, Nathaniel, 1876-1932

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Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919

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Born in Ontario, Canada, Dr. Osler was received his medical from McGill University in 1872. He became Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's first professor of medicine in 1889. Author of The Principles and Practices of Medicine (1892), Osler has been celled the father of psychosomatic medicine and the "most influential physician in history." From the description of Sir William Osler press clippings, 1905-1920. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 14312601 ...

Lutz, Frank J.

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St. Louis surgeon and educator. Frank J. Lutz (1855-1916) was educated at St. Louis University (A.B. 1873) and the St. Louis Medical College (M.D. 1876). He began his practice in St. Louis in 1876 and soon after became Surgeon-in-Chief, Alexian Brother's Hospital. Later he became chief surgeon of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway, was chief surgeon of Josephine Hospital, and attending surgeon of the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital from its foundation. He was ...