Volume 47, Number 9 · May 25, 2000
An Autopsy of Dr. Osler
By Richard Horton
William Osler: A Life in Medicine
by Michael Bliss
Oxford University Press, 581 pp., $35.00
In the early summer of 1885, a thirty-six-year-old professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania crossed the Delaware River to visit an elderly man with a 'transient indisposition.' When William Osler walked into a front room on the ground floor of 328 Mickle Street, Camden, New Jersey, Walt Whitman—his new patient—was sitting in a corner. Over thirty years later, Osler, who was by then an immensely influential professor of medicine, recalled the moment:
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