New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-03
WANTS TEOTONlC CLINIC.
DIR. OSLER At DINNER.
Fdre1oeu Demonstration by Has
Brother PHYSICIANS.

u william Oser. the guest of honor at a
- taking dinner given by physicians at the
-" 'iuo'I last night, declared that the most cry
ing need in the American medical world to-day
was clinic modelled closely on Teutonic lines
mere was no reason. he said why in every Amer
1Ca" town of $1,000 inhabitants or over there
"oulu not be as good clinic as in the smaller
american towns. He added that with good path
oioslcai laboratories. and so forth, more work
Could De done there in five years than could be
compished in Germany in ten
speaking IN lighter vein. he declared that Bos
ION was noted for its beans, New-York for Its
oa"oees or bills and Philadelphia for it's breeding.
Dr- Osler is to leave here soon for Europe to
assume his duties as regius professor of medicine
in Oxford University
Ut Osler's name bruited about the country
he" weeks ago because of his alleged statement at
a recent dinner that a man had outIived his use
1ulhess at forty and ought to be chloroformed
sixty. The following day he FASTENED to explain
thit MS suggestion to chlorofOrm was merely
a playful allusOn to a haIf-forgotten novel by
Irollope. where euthanasia was applied to sexage-
narians.
More than five hundred physicians and surgeons
many of whose names are household words over
Two hemspheres, united last night in paying honor
to the man who has accepted perhaps the most
conspicuous post that England has to offer med
zeal instructor Dr. Oser's address was prefaced by
the presentation by DR. S. Weir Mitchell best
known to the public perhaps as the author OF
Hugh Wynne," The Adventures of FRANCOIS"
and other books. of a copy of Cicero's DE Senec-
tute' as a memorial gift from DR.. Osler's brother
physicians. and considered a slngularly appropriate
one in view of the recipients views the age limit
of mans usefulness
DIR. MITCHELLs SPEECH
DR.. Mitchell in witty and generously received
speech. said that the gift was singular recogni-
ton of the tastes of the receiver 1t bore the i'm
print, he said, Of Benjamin Franklin. and the date
was 1744. Cicero was a firm believer in Immortality
and in common with DR.. Osler had a certain humor
Continued Dr. Mitchell:
at is desire bI 4hflpatory plaglarst for he says
proper time" Perhaps the victim in Years means
and tobacco Dr. oser has io1g BEEN sms
pected OF deceiving as to age.
DuI oo3ect that he must have age, in that he pos
accompany old aeebnng 10 onakespeare should
troops of friends 'Ole'io0 ana
Before presenting the volume to DIR. osIer be
hoped that his old age might prove happy and
productive.
the entire audience. as one man. followed suit
Gust on gust OF cheering shook the grand ballroom
"here the dinner had taken place. and the air
seemed alive with waving napkns
God Save the Mighty Chlefr was the song n
the tune Of the British national anthem
While in certain portions flashes of hurnor nIaved
over d.. oslers speech for the most part his
VaIedictory was tense with suppressed emotion as
Ne PsIo e4Oquent tribute to the who had uads
MIN, his friends he leaving behind the SIN
dents and the family physicians. his hopes and his
ambitions.
DR. OsLER's IDEALS.
Toward the close of his speech DR.. osler said:
/ have three personal ideals First. to do to-
gays Work Well and let tomorrow take care of
itself owe any small success l NAV haze At
ta!he3 10 mat above any other. Second, to act
the Golden Rule toward my professional brethren
and my patients. Third to cultivate a certain
measure, or equanimity. to meet success with
Squdhllnlty, TO meet ;rief. pain anguish and suf-
1eTHs Wlth equanimity betting a man
snaI not worry so long I carry the memory
OF the pest you have given me. My mistakes have
been or the head. not Of the heart. I have loved
no darkness, sophisticated no truth nursed no
oeIuslon and showed no fear.
DR.. Osler reviewed the circumstances of his call
70 the United States. He declared he thought that
the letter asking him to to Philadelphia was
joke. and he feared to reply. Dr. Mitchell and his
charming wife were the agents in inviting him to
come DR.. Mitchell declared that the breeding OF
any man appointed to chair at Philadelphia was
most important. Give him cherry pie and see how
he disposed OF the stones and that would tell
whether he was fit to remain professor at Phila-
dephia,' he said. 1 ate cherry pie and disposed
of the stones discreetly and I got the chair
MY great ambition has BEEN" he said. Ito be-
good clinical physician. to build up a great
clinic Teutonio lines, not the lines OF the
United States or England but the lines of Ger
many, which is in the forefront in the intricate
problems of internal medicine"