POSTHUMOUS TRIBUTES TO SIR WILLIAM OSLER

Abstract

All of him that we value here Wakes on morn of his hundredth year. EVERY gift of gods was his. . . . He was one of nature's chosen. So wrote late Fielding Garrison of Osler. It is almost thirty years since he died, and his eminence as a teacher and physician has not waned. Indeed, years have added to his glory. No one has in any way taken his place as the young man's friend and as the world's best doctor. Who can ever truly estimate greatness of such a man ? His fame lies not only in his achievement as a physician whose judgment in all things medical was outstanding, in his rich knowledge of biblical lore and in his remarkable learning of Greek and Latin writers and his familiarity with philosophy and literature throughout centuries, but in