SIR WILLIAM OSLER, BART., M.D., LL.D. 285 



ing at London, Berlin, and Vienna. On his return in 1874 he was 

 made professor of the Institute of Medicine of McGill University, 

 where he remained until 1884, and then accepted a call as pro- 

 fessor of clinical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. 

 With the foundation of the medical department of Johns Hopkins 

 University in 1889 Dr. Osier became professor of theory and prac- 

 tice of medicine at that institution, and at the same time physi- 

 cian-in-chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital. He remained in these 

 positions until the spring of 1905. 



In the fall of 1904 he had received and accepted a call from 

 Oxford, to become Regius Professor of Medicine of that world- 

 renowned university. In reply to the author's congratulation, he 

 wrote : 



"Naturally, I am very loath to leave America, where I have been so well 

 treated and where I have so many warm friends, but it really is an act of self- 

 preservation. I could not possibly stand for very long the high pressure of my 

 present life. The position is almost purely academic, and I still have an 

 abundance of time for my literary work." 



When Osier left America, a dinner was given to him, the 

 memory of which will be forever cherished by those who were 

 present. He was eulogized as a teacher, clinician, consultant, and 

 author by such men as Tyson, Shepard, Wilson, Welch, Jacobi, 

 and Mitchell. Osier's reply was full of expressions of gratitude 

 and appreciation. Among other things he said: 



"Why so much happiness has come to me I know not. But this I know, that 

 I have not deserved more than others, and yet a very rich abundance of it has 

 been vouchsafed to me. I have been singularly happy in my friends, and for 

 that I say, 'God be praised!' I have had exceptional happiness in the pro- 

 fession of my choice, and I owe all of this to you. ... I have been happy, 

 too, in the public among whom I worked happy in my own land in Canada, 

 happy here among you in the country of my adoption." 



His mother and his wife were seated in one of the boxes, and 

 turning a grateful glance upward, he said: 



" Of the greatest of all happiness I cannot speak of my home. Many of you 

 know it, and that is enough. ... I have had three personal ideals. One, 

 to do the day's work well and not to bother about to-morrow. The second ideal 

 has been to act the Golden Rule, as far as in me lay, toward my professional 

 brethren and toward the patients committed to my care. The third has been 



