OSLER, Professor Sir William (1849-1919)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA KH/PP13
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full title	: OSLER, Professor Sir William (1849-1919)
Date(s)	: 1906
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Osler | Sir | William | 1849-1919 | Knight | Professor of Medicine

Context

Administrative/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).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

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.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services.

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line and due to be published in hard copy.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

King's College Hospital.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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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Description Notes

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

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
11 May 2000.