William Osler

Sir William Osler ( born July 12, 1849 in Bond Head, Canada West ( now Ontario ), † December 29, 1919 in Oxford) was a Canadian physician. Around the turn of the century he was the most famous physician in the English-speaking world, even today, he is often referred to as the father of modern medicine.

Life

William Osler grew up as the youngest of nine children of the Reverend Featherstone Lake Osler and his wife Ellen Free Picton in Dundas. After high school he attended from 1868 the Toronto Medical School and then McGill University in Montreal. Where he graduated in 1872 from his medical studies.

He stayed in various medical institutions, including Berlin, Leipzig and Vienna, most of the time he spent at University College London. Upon his return to Canada, he became a lecturer at the School of Medicine McGill University, in 1875 he became a professor and taught physiology, pathology and medicine. In 1882 he was co-founder of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1884 he became professor of clinical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, but in 1888 he moved to the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he became the first professor of medicine. During the first four years in Baltimore, he wrote his book, The Principles and Practice of Medicine, which shortly after it was first published in 1892, became the most respected medical textbook of his time. In the same year married Osler Grace Cross, a great-granddaughter of American freedom fighter Paul Revere. During a visit to England in 1904, the Royal Institute of Medicine at the University of Oxford, he was offered, which had until then only British citizens only. Although he retained his Canadian citizenship, he took over the chair in 1905 and held it until his death. During his time at Oxford he always devoted himself more to his passion for books, his library grew to become one of the best. After his death she McGill University was passed, which it maintains to this day. For his great achievements in the field of medicine Osler in 1911 was awarded the honorary title of British baronet, 1994, he was inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame for doctors.

Sir William Osler died in 1919 of bronchial pneumonia and empyema. At first he was buried in the chapel of Christ Church, Oxford, but since the death of his wife in 1928, rests the ashes of Sir William and Lady Osler in the Osler Library of History at McGill University.

Influence

Sir William Osler was not only an expert what the diagnosis of heart, lung and blood diseases were concerned, but he also led the development of that medicine back to a modern day medicine. So he combined for the first time the physiological treatment of a patient with the psychological and highlighted the importance of the mental condition of a patient in relation to its treatment:

Therefore, he is often regarded as the father of psychosomatic medicine. In addition, he had great influence on the development of medical education, he was instrumental in the development of the training system for doctors that still applies today. He also made ​​sure that the approach to the patient in the course of medical studies, more time was granted.

He became an internationally respected human medicine through his numerous publications and expanded the existing knowledge in his time in many areas of clinical medicine.

Named after him, the Osler 's nodes and the different therefrom Osler.

Works

A small selection from the works of Sir William Osler:

  • Normal histology for laboratory and class use ( 1882)
  • The License to Practice ( 1889)
  • Doctor and Nurse: Remarks to the First Class of Graduates from the Training School for Nurses of The Johns Hopkins Hospital ( 1891)
  • The Principles and Practice of Medicine ( 1892)
  • The growth of truth as illustrated in the discovery of the circulation of the blood (1906 )
  • On multiple hereditary telangiectases with recurrent haemorrhages (1907 )
  • A Concise History of Medicine ( 1919)
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