Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-30
WORLD s GREATEST
DOCTOR DIES At
ACE Of SEVENTY
Sir William 0SIer Puts in Ten
Years of Active Work Be-
yond the Period for ChIOro-
forming.
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10y MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wEsl
oxford, England. Dec. 29.-Sir
William Osler, noted physician, who
has been i'll for several weeks, lied
here this evening, aged 10.
Sir William Osler was one of the
great men who sprang from Canadian
81 H. He was born in the province OF
Ontario and grew to be the most dis
tlngulShed of four distinguished sons
of famous mother the hundredth
anniversary of whose birth was cele-
brated at Toronto on December IA,
1906.
His first preceptor ws the parish
priest, to whom he acknowledged his
moral and mental Indebtedness and
to whom he inscribed one of his
Learned work-"The Practice of
Medicine"
Receiving his medical degree from
McGill university in 1872, Dr. Osler
placed the imprint of his ability on
medical learning to such a marked
degree that within a few years he be-
came an accepted authority in medi-
cal science, His great art lay in his
skill in diagnosis and his profound
knowledge OF all the parts and func-
tons of the human body and the
various ills of nature. II such a thing
could be, he was specialist IN all de-
partments of medicine.
The late George Murray described
him as "a man of great and versatile
genius" The province of Ontario
characterized him as among the
greatest living Canadians.
No small part of DR. Osler's wok
lay in his directing influence on the
lives of others His precepts We're
broad and sound Thousands of
young men from all lands came under
the eye of this teacher, and thousands
learned the lessons that he taught
through his writings. Above all he
urged work, SO that the temptations
of early or later years might be avoid
ed, TO the youth he said.
There are other altars than that
of Venus on which to light your fires,
young man work, incessant, hard,
earnest work.
o. pr esier has boon said-"A
never made an after-dinner speech.
Perhaps il was because of this that
he gained a reputation In tho vast
world which might otherwse-and
naturally never nave heard of him
as a great physician. In 1905 at the
Johns Hopkins university of Balti-
more, in which he served as professor
of medicine, DR.. Osler delivered the
address in which he spoke of the
comparative uselessness of men above
forty years of age" His words, then
spoken without thought of how far
reaching they would be, passed round
the world in garbled form of every
variety, He was quoted as having
said in effect that men past that age
were of no value in the progress OF
humanity and that men who had
reached the age of sixty should be
l.. LII h,n
subject for a considerable period and
then issued statement in which he
declared:
Il did not say, men at GO should be
the novel to which l referred and
upon which the plot hinged"
The novel in question was "The
Fixed Period" written by Anthony
Trollope in 1882.
DR.. Osler was criticised by the pub
these he said: "The criticisms have
not shaken nv convictions that, the
telling work of the world has been
done and is done by men under 40
wears of age. The exceptions WHICH
have been given only illustrate the|
ut would be to the general good If
men at sixty were retired from active
work We should miss the energies
of some voung-old men. but on the
30 sexpperarIans themselves"
Nevertheless, and NOTWITHSTANDING
his views on this subjecS, DR.. Osler
remained in active practice
until the close of his life. Having
served in Johns Hopkins to 1905, he
was called at the age Of 56 to the
oxford university as regius professor
of medicine. the highest honor in the
bestowal of British institutions of
learning. For his great services in
medicine he was knighted and created
a baronet bv King George at his coro-
nation in 1911. During the war he
rendered great services to the empire
as organizer and counsellor and was
one of the leaders in the recent con-
certed movement TO bring BRUSH
education to the highest plane
Of thoroughness.
The only son of William Osler.
Lieutenant Edward Osler. was killed
in action in 1917
Sir William Oser was the son OF. the
late Rev. f. l.. Osler. His mother
was born in Kent England. and emil |
grated to Canada with her husband
in 1887. She died at the age of 10l
years. Two brothers survive and re-
side in Toronto. They are the Hon. |
Fcatherstone Osler president OF the |
Toronto General Trust corporation |
and a former Judge of the high court
Of Ontario and Sir Edmund Osler. M. /
p. head of the stock brokerage firm |
pf Osler & Hammond. A third BROTH |
er was the late Britton b. Osler. X. c.. |
\ leader of the bar of Ontario and one !
of the most noted pleaders OF his day. |