A way of life [rare books]

Doctor, humanist, teacher of medicine at McGill University, The Uni versity of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, and Oxford Univer sity, William Osler (1849-1919) was also a curator of the Library of Oxford and (after 1911) a baronet of the British Empire.

Bodleianus

His work embraced many fields. But it is as a man with the gift of inspir ing other men by his example, his speech, and his writings that he is most assured of immortality. A doctor deeply learned in the classics, a humanist with profound religious convictions, a devotedly thoughtful man, he-like Sir Thomas Browne, whose works wers his lifeling companions-reconciled the old truths of literature, philosophy, and religion with the new science.

Here, in this selection of essays which reveal his greatness as a writer, are to be found such works as "A Way of Life" in which Osler presents his practical philosophy of everyday living in vivid and memorable language. Here alia is included the brilliant address The Student Life, which details his advice to young men. Such essays as "Creators, Transmuters, and Transmitters" and "The Collecting of e Library" reflect his deepest humanistic convictions. Included also are the incom parable "Letters to my House Physicians" in which Osler minutely describes his visits to continentol hospitals and towns. "The Growth of Truth, as Illustrated by the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood by William Harvey, is a fascinating and thought-provoking account of one of the most dramatic episodes in medicine, while the famous articles on such great physicians as Thomas Browne, Robert Burton, Gui Patin, Michael Servetus, and William Beaumont are masterpieces of medical history.