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and art of medicine was one of the chief objects aimed at, and even the 

 clinical clerks were taken into partnership for this work, were encouraged to 

 collate cases, to look up references and historical points, and were trained in 

 exposition. 



It was only gradually that the structure grew. First the clinical and 

 pathological scheme was constructed, whilst as yet there were no students 

 to profit by it. Then followed a period of post-graduate teaching only, and 

 when, in the end, the first undergraduate students reached the wards, they 

 found awaiting them a clinic fully organised and equipped. 



From the great school so built up many others have since been copied or 

 developed, and it is not too much to say that from Johns Hopkins has 

 emanated an influence which has revolutionised the whole system of medical 

 education in America ; nor has its influence failed to spread to our own 

 country. Many of Osier's assistants and pupils occupy leading posts in other 

 universities, and the profession pays ungrudging tribute to the work which he 

 accomplished for medical teaching and research. Even if the work which 

 Osier did at Johns Hopkins stood alone to his credit, it would ensure for him 

 an honoured place in the annals of medicine. 



N"or were his activities limited to the university, the whole of the medical 

 life of Baltimore and Maryland felt his influence. He infused new life into 

 societies and libraries, and took a leading part in the work of combating 

 tuberculosis in the State, and in the promotion of sanitation. Throughout 

 the length and breadth of the United States his influence was felt, working 

 always for co-ordination of the medical profession and the brotherhood of its 

 members. It was for him a time of literary activity also ; and in 1891 his 

 text-book of medicine was published. In England his work and eminence 

 were fully recognised. He had been elected to the Fellowship of the Eoyal 

 College of Physicians in 1884, whilst still in Montreal, and delivered the 

 Gulstonian Lectures in the following year. In 1898 he was admitted to the 

 Fellowship of the Eoyal Society. 



In 1892 he married Grace Revere Gross, daughter of John Eevere of 

 Boston. 



The work at Johns Hopkins, coupled with the claims of a large consulting 

 practice which knew no limits of mileage, was very exacting, and after other 

 invitations had been declined, at various times, he accepted, in 1904 the 

 office of Eegius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford, on the 

 resignation of Sir John Burdon Sanderson. 



In Oxford, whither he came in 1905, Osier entered upon a third period of 

 activity, as the occupant of a Chair dating from the reign of King Henry VIII 

 and with very different functions from those of his previous Chairs ; a position 

 of high prestige, which had been enhanced by the tenures of Acland and 

 Sanderson, with great opportunities of influence but little clinical teaching. 

 The duties of the Eegius Professor are varied, and others are added to them. 

 Osier soon came to his own and held an unrivalled position in Oxford. He 

 took an active part in the administrative work of the University and its 



