The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-03
DOClORS. GOOD.BY TO OSLER.
$40 TURN OUT At DINNER TO THE
OXFORD PROFESSOR-ELECT
Noted Physicians From All Over NSTth
America and One ~ Least Prom Abroad
TESTS About ChiOrofOruIRx Haired
Praise Prom canada for the Guest.

The physicians and surgeons or the
United States and Canada gave a dinner
last night at the Waldorf Astoria In honor
Of Or. William Osler. the diagnOstician and
writer on medical topics.
Or. Osler Il about 10 leave this country
and Johns Hopkins University, which has
been the center Of his activities since 1889,
10 become Regius Professor Of Medicine
at Oxford.
Those who gathered TO do him honor
last night came from every corner Of North
America. Some came even farther. Dr.. f..
6andwith came all the way from Cairo
Egypt not Illinois,. The dinner was not
given under the auspices Of any medical
society or faction. As nearly as such a
gathering Of eminent professional men
could he. II was spontaneous. Five hum
dred and twenty men sat down at the tables.
The walls OF the Astoria's great banquet
room were covered with interfolded United
States and British flags.
Those who sat at the right and left Of DR..
osler we're DR.. James Tyson Of Philadelphia,
the chairman Of the dinner; DR.. S. Weir
Mitchell Of Philadelphia, DR.. w, W. Keen Of
Philadelphia, DR.. F. Sandwich Of Cairo,
Egypt; Dr. James r. Chadwick Of Boston
DR.. John $. Billings Of New York. DIR. +. J d.
Shepherd Of Montreal, DR.. A. jacob Of New
York. DR.. John II Musser Of Philadelphia =,
DR. Edward l.. Trudeau Of New York, DR. &.
Frederick c. Shattuck Of Ba ltimore, DIR I.
Stephen smith Of New York, DR.. Frank
Billings Of Chicago, DR.. w. II. WEIGH of
Baltimore, Or. }. c. Wilson Of New York f,
DIR. + G Janeway Of New York, DIR. Francis
Dclafcld Of New York, DR.. A. =. Malloch Of
Hamilton, Ont. Surgeon General George W a..
Sternberg Of Washington. D. c.; DIR. d. b.
St John Roosa of New York. DR.. William NJ.
Polk Of New York. DR.. G. X Dickinson Of
Jersey City, Dr. Eugene f. Cordell Of Cleve-
land. Dr. william B. Gibson Of Philadelphia.
Dr. John A. Wyeth Of New York and DR. &.
Robert Fletcher Of Washington,
DR.. Osler's family occupied one of the
gallery boxes and the wives and daughters
OF his hosts filled all the other boxes which
surround the room.
In other ways than in the great number
Of those who participated In II the dinner
was remarkable Physicians are not often
found at the banquet tables OF the State
and county and historical societies. They
are too uncertain Of their engagement to
make many engagements for such fnvoli-
ties; yet here we're $50 non-dinner going
persons.
They we're fresh at the game; they had a
far more tangible and legitimate excuse
for their gathering than often comes TO the
RTeRarious diner and they not only reioiced
In the opportunity of letting DR.. Osler know
how much they thought Of him, but they
had mighty. good time among them
selves in so doing.
Il was announced generally along the
tables that any one who made any Teferen
10 the chloroforming Of persons threatened
with senile deterioration would he punished
at once with a heavy administration OF
ohlorofom 10 the sinner, The souvenirs
Of the dinner were tiny mortars and pestles
Cpraoticable, a theatrical man would have
called theml. inscribed appropriately.
DR. Tyson started the speaking az
quarter past 10 O'Clock by introducing DR..
p. j. Shepherd OF Montreal, who oheerfully
reoounted the principal incidents Of Dr.
OsleT's career at McGill University, where
the guest of honor laid the foundations ofhis
reputation. DR. Shepherd regretted, he
said. that he lacked the eloquenoe which
was 30 common here, but was very rare in
the regions farther north
He said that from the time when Dr. OsleT
went TO McGill he was distinguished by con-
slant attendance in the pOst-mcrtem room
and AT the hospital, somewhat 10 the neg
lect Of examinations and Of other ways OF
demonstrating his own requirements; above
all he was distinguished by sense OF humor
q saving sense. said the speaker in almost
demonstrated in Or. Osler. Laughter
He read minute Of the MCGill faculty
recording the thanks Of the university to
William Osler OF Dundas, Ont, for the col
lection Of specimens Of morbid growths
which he gave to the university and still
in use there.
DR.. Osler. 30 Or. Shepherd said amid
laughter. was not distinguished as a prac-
titioner in Montreal; he had not time 10
practise; he had no chariot which, was ger
haps well. for those who 20 afoOt Kill but
their tens. where those who 20 In chaTiots
kill their hundreds. Laughter.
The speaker told Of a feminine relative
who said OF Or. Osier In those days: willie
r. not thinking Of matTimony; he Ia mar
Ted TO his microscope and his children are
hi lectures. Laughter He said that
Dr. Osler had showed his loyalty 10 McCiil
by coming back and making one Of those
addresses which have made him really
famous It4aughter
DR.. Shepherd concluded by expressing
the conviction that Or. Osler had done
much TO promote the, entente cordiale
between Canada and the United States;
he was now coming back TO his native nag
after a mission OF helpfulness 10 a neighboT
and friend and the good wishes OF hcGill
and OF all Canada would 60 with him 70
Oxford. Cheers and applause
Or. j. C. Wilson Of Philadelphia, who
followed Or. Shepherd, told Of the Philadel-
phia chapter OF Or. Osler's career.
The test OF the true American, IL has
been said Is the impulse TO move on. In
this Dr. Osler Is the very type OF an Ameri-
can The further he moves the longer he
lives When he left Philadelphia we had
emotions which we couldn't suppress with
terTapin. and now that he leaves America
We give him the greatest medical dinner
ever told about
The old world has given 70 the new
many and great physicians These gifts
have been returned and to-day Americans
can be found in Paris and London. Now
20 the list is added another imperishable
name Philadelphia il fortunate to have
been the home OF Franklin and the abiding
place Of Osler II il a good thing for us
that he came among US, not only because
Of his precepts, but because Of his influence;
not merely because Of his accomplishments
and his wisdom, but because he had that
indefnable something called character.
He is great in little things and this has en-
nobled him and has widened his influence
40 that II has extended 10 the lands across
the seas
Dr. William II, WEIGH Of Baltimore re-
ceived a great tribute OF affection from
the doctors when he got up 70 tell Of DR..
Osler's work at Johns Hopkins DR..
WEIGH said Il was not for him TO dilate upon
the magnitude Of that work.
The results Of his great work he said,
are not 70 be judged by contemporaries.
Undoubtedly the Baltimore period was
the most productive in the life OF DIT. Osler
He was called 10 Baltimore by the founda-
ton Of Johns HoDkinsN