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the following words: "In 1910 'Man's Redemption of Man' 

 was delivered at a service for the students at the University of 

 Edinburgh. Osier unconsciously chose as his text from Isaiah 

 what he himself has been to those who knew him: 'And a man 

 shall be as an hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the 

 tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place; as the shadow of a 

 great rock in a weary land.' " 



Howard S. Anders, one of Osier's Philadelphia pupils, recalls 

 in his tribute the master's saying that "there is no higher mission 

 in this life than nursing God's poor." And Henry Sewall, the 

 first pupil to matriculate and to graduate from Johns Hopkins, 

 wrote: " If I tried to characterize Osier, three words would suffice, 

 sweetness and light." 



Dr. Field H. Garrison, of Washington, D. C., describes Osier's 

 lovable personality in his tribute in "Science" of January, 1920, 

 in the following words : 



"Osier's warm glance and utter friendliness of manner told how naturally 

 fond he was of people. He had the gift of making almost anyone feel for the 

 moment as if he were set apart as a valued particular friend, and so became, in 

 effect, a kind of universal friend to patients, pupils and colleagues alike." 



Prof. Charles L. Dana, Osier's New York friend, characterized 

 the great physician's personality in the following terms: 



"Sir William Osier was altogether the best known and best loved physician 

 that this or any other country has produced. His influence and achievements 

 are not to be measured by the books he wrote, the students he taught, or the 

 scientific observations he made. Through the influence of his ideas, his per- 

 sonality and the mellowing activities of his career, he enriched the medical 

 profession and greatly helped to raise its art to a point which now compels for 

 it the esteem of society in general." 



Another beautiful side of Osier was expressed in the tribute paid 

 to him by Prof. F. J. Shepherd in the Journal of the Canadian 

 Medical Association, wherein he said: 



"As a clinical teacher, Osier was at his best; not only was he an acute 

 diagnostician and a clear expositor, but he treated his hospital patients most 

 kindly, as human beings and not as mere cases. His example was one which 

 made a great impression on his students and the Osier tradition of gentleness 

 and sympathy with patients was handed on." 





