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tific branches, the author has kept his 

 ideas in every department of medicine 

 abreast of the times. 



As a practitioner the humanitarian 

 side of the physician was fully as 

 prominent as the intellectual. In the 

 wards and among the out-patients, 

 students were shown by example that 

 qualities of the heart as well as those 

 of the head are essential for the proper 

 practise of medicine. Osier educated 

 his patients more than he drugged 

 them, many will agree, to their benefit. 

 His private practise, confined to con- 

 sultation, was small at first, but grad- 

 ually assumed proportions which made 

 it a burden. No small percentage of 

 it consisted in the non-remunerated ex- 

 amination and treatment of physicians 

 and members of the physician's families 

 from all parts of the United States 

 and Canada. He gained a great repu- 

 tation in the profession for accuracy of 

 diagnosis, and for acquaintance with 

 the rarer syndromes, and while he was 

 thought by some to be unduly pessi- 

 mistic regarding pharmaco-therapy, it 

 is. probable that his influence in com- 

 bating its excesses has more than com- 

 pensated for any inadequate apprecia- 

 tion he may have had of it. A foe 

 to quackery and graft in all forms, 

 Dr. Osier is also an enemy of the com- 

 mercial spirit in medicine. Though he 

 has attained a competence, he has 

 reaped no financial reward commen- 

 surate with his services, nor does any 

 man animated by similar ideals. 



For those who know Professor Osier, 

 the strength, charm and influence of 

 his personality are fully as important 

 as his scientific contributions. His ex- 

 ample of fine living and high thinking, 

 his hospitality, his sense of social duty. 

 his devotion to the profession and all 

 that pertains to its dignity and eleva- 

 tion, his sacrifice of comfort, time and 

 energy for the upbuilding of medical 

 libraries and medical societies, his in- 

 terest in and support of humanitarian 

 movements, including crusades against 

 tuberculosis and anti vivisection, his 

 generosity to, and sympathy with. 



struggling young medical men, espe- 

 cially those with scientific bent, his 

 honoring of the master minds of medi- 

 cine and medical heroes, his love of 

 literature — especially of Plato and of 

 Sir Thomas Browne — his fondness for 

 old books, his humor, his philosophy of 

 cheerfulness, his respect for age, de- 

 spite newspaper calumnies of him, and, 

 above all, his never-failing charity have 

 had a deep influence upon those who 

 have come in contact with him. By 

 means of the recently published volume 

 entitled ' ^Fquanimitas and other Ad- 

 dresses ' and through his farewell mes- 

 sage to the medical profession of this 

 country,* some idea of this side of 

 Dr. Osier may be gained, even by those 

 who have not had the privilege of 

 knowing him. 



It must be pleasing to Americans to 

 know that the portrait of Professor 

 Osier recently presented to the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania and the portrait 

 of the group of four Johns Hopkins 

 medical men, including him, painted 

 this summer by Sargent, a gift from 

 Miss Garrett to the medical school of 

 Baltimore, will preserve for succeeding 

 generations the features of this dis- 

 tinguished medical man, of whom the 

 citizens of a country, his more than 

 twenty years by adoption, are justly 

 proud. The photograph here repro- 

 duced is an excellent likeness. 

 PROFESSOR WILHELM OSTWALD. 



Under the new arrangement by 

 which Harvard and Germany exchange 

 professors, Wilhelm Ostwald, of Leip- 

 zig, is to lecture at Cambridge for half 

 of the coming academic year. Ostwald 

 was born in Riga, in 1853. At the 

 University of Dorpat he studied chem- 

 istry and physics, receiving the first 

 degree in 1875 and the doctor's degree 

 in 1878. From 1875 to 1880 he was 

 assistant in the physical laboratory. 

 The salary was not large, and during 

 part of this period Ostwald made both 

 ends meet by giving lessons in music 



* ' Unity, Peace and Concord,' J. Am. 

 M. Assoc, Chicago, XIV., 1005, p. 365. 



