IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1538 S59
Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Title: OSLER, Sir William (1849-1919): telegram to Ramsay Wright
Date(s): 1917
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 item
Name of creator(s): Osler | Sir | William | 1849-1919 | Knight | physician
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Administrative/Biographical history:
Sir William Osler was born in Canada, 1849; educated, Trinity College, Toronto, 1867; McGill University, Montreal, 1870-1872; postgraduate study in University College Hospital, St Thomas's Hospital, University College and the Brown Institute, London, 1872; studied pathology in Berlin and Vienna; returned to Canada, 1874; lectureship in the Institutes of Medicine at McGill University; attending physician at Montreal General, 1878; member of the Royal College of Physicians, 1878; fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1883; chair of clinical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 1884; founder member of the Association of American Physicians, 1885; physician-in-chief at the hospital and professor of medicine at the medical school, Johns Hopkins University, 1889; regius chair of medicine, Oxford, 1905; died, 1919.
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Scope and content/abstract:
Telegram from Sir William Osler to Ramsay Wright notifying him of the death of Osler's son, Edward Revere, of wounds sustained in Belgium, 1917.
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Language/scripts of material: English
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2008