Sir William Osler
Subtitle: the man and his books
By: edited by William Feindel, Elizabeth Maloney, Pamela Miller
Contributors: Osler Library
Publisher: Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Montreal, Quebec
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780771707094
Subjects: Library; Medicine; Bibliography; History; Medical literature; Libraries; Osler Library
Notes: Essays based on presentations from a symposium held in Sept. 1999 celebrating the 150th anniversary of Osler's birth and the 70th anniversary of the opening of the Osler library. Cf. Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sir William's "astral self" : origins of the Osler Niche in the Osler Library  -- by William Feindel and Wayne LeBel; title: Osler and Francis : creating the Bibliotheca Osleriana  -- by Peter F. McNally, Glenn Brown and Nicolas Savard; title: Some noteworthy Arabic and Persian manuscripts in the Osler Library, McGill University  -- by Adam Gacek; title: A monumental source for the history of medicine : the Paris inaugural theses at the Osler Library  -- by Toby Gelfand; title: Archives and artifacts at the Osler Library  -- by Pamela Miller; title: Three who made an association : Sir William Osler, 1849-1919, George Milbry Gould, 1848-1922, Margaret Ridley Charlton, 1858-1931, and the founding of the Medical Library Association -- by Frances K. Groen.