Facts and Ideas from Anywhere

OSLERIAN ADVICE (May 15, 1983) (1) In 1959 I purchased from Old Hickory Bookshop in Brinklow, Maryland, a book entitled Sir William Osler, Bart., Brief Tributes to His Personality, Influence and Public Service Written by His Friends, Associates and Former Pupils, In Honor of His Seventieth Birthday and First Published in e Bulletin of e Johns Hopkins Hospital for July, 1919. is 167-page book, which also contains Osler’s bibliography, has since been a steady companion of mine. My favorite chapter was written by his former Johns Hopkins’ chief resident, William S. ayer, who described the third heart sound, and is entitled “Osler, the Teacher.” In it, ayer paraphrases comments of Osler apparently reiterated many times during rounds and other discussions. e comments are as appropriate 64 years later as when they were recorded by ayer: