CHAPTER XXX 

 SIR WILLIAM OSLER, BART., M.D., LL.D. 



HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 

 FROM 1905 TO 



THE first physician to receive the distinction of a unanimous 

 election as honorary vice-president of the National Tuber- 

 culosis Association was the late Sir William Osier, who, when 

 at Baltimore, as has already been stated in the preceding pages, 

 was one of the prime movers in its formation. His interest in the 

 tuberculosis problem, in its social as well as its medical aspects, 

 was always uppermost. 



He was closely identified with the anti-tuberculosis movement 

 in America as well as in England, and his counsel was sought as an 

 expert in all that appertains to this most wide-spread of diseases. 

 The accompanying bibliography comprises some 50 of his most 

 important contributions on the subject of tuberculosis. To Dr. 

 Osier is due the formation of the Laennec Society for the Study of 

 Tuberculosis, which is allied with Johns Hopkins Medical School. 

 In 1900 he established the first social service division in connec- 

 tion with the tuberculosis work at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. 

 This universally beloved physician is justly claimed by three 

 countries Canada, the United States, and England. He was born 

 in Bond Head, Ontario, on July 12, 1849. He came from a family 

 of culture. His father was the Rev. F. L., and his mother, Ellen 

 Frere Pickton Osier. He started out in life with high ambitions 

 and noble aims, graduating from Trinity College, Toronto, in 

 1868, and taking his medical degree at McGill University, Mon- 

 treal, in 1872. He went abroad for a post-graduate course, study- 



* The accompanying picture is a reproduction of a photograph Sir William 

 kindly had taken shortly before his last illness to enable the author to illustrate 

 the biographical sketch for this history. It is generally conceded to be the best 

 portrait of him in existence. The picture was sent from England by Lady 

 Osier shortly after the death of Sir William. 



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