William Osler
William Osler
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, FRS, FRCPwas a Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians, and he was the first to bring medical students out of the lecture hall for bedside clinical training. He has frequently been described as the "Father of Modern Medicine". Osler was a person of many interests, who in addition to being a physician, was a bibliophile, historian, author,...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionDoctor
Date of Birth12 July 1849
CountryCanada
Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.
Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.
Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.