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THE manuscript of Sir William Osler's lectures on the "Evolution of Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in April, 1913, on the Silliman Foundation, was immediately turned in to the Yale University Press for publication. Duly set in type, proofs in galley form had be...
THE manuscript of Sir William Osler's lectures on the "Evolution of Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in April, 1913, on the Silliman Foundation, was immediately tu...
2. Chapter 2SAIL to the Pacific with some Ancient Mariner, and traverse day by day that silent sea until you reach a region never before furrowed by keel where a tiny island, a mere speck o...
3. Chapter 3Out of the night, out of the blinding night Thy beacon flashes;--hail, beloved light Of Greece and Grecian; hail, for in the mirk Thou cost reveal each valley and each height.
4. Chapter 4THERE are waste places of the earth which fill one with terror--not simply because they are waste; one has not such feelings in the desert nor in the vast solitude of the ocean....
5. Chapter 5THE "reconquest of the classic world of thought was by far the most important achievement of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It absorbed nearly the whole mental energy of...
6. Chapter 6THE middle of the seventeenth century saw the profession thus far on its way--certain objective features of disease were known, the art of careful observation had been cultivate...
7. Chapter 7THE story so far has been of men and of movements--of men who have, consciously or unconsciously, initiated great movements, and of movements by which, nolens volens, the men of...