William Osler Letters Collection Guide: Additional Resources

In addition to the digitized William Osler Letters Collection, the Reynolds-Finley Historical Library also holds the following important works by and about William Osler:

• Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler : a poet and his physician
• This is our work : the legacy of Sir William Osler
• Student and chief : the Osler-Camac correspondence
• Sir Kenelm Digby's Powder of sympathy : an unfinished essay
• Wm. Osler : the continuing education
• Sir William Osler : aphorisms from his bedside teachings and writings
• A year with Osler, 1896-1897 : notes taken at his clinics in the Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Man's redemption of man : an address delivered at the University of Edinburgh in July, 1910
• The student life and other essays
• Experiments and observations on the gastric juice and the physiology of digestion
• Bibliotheca Osleriana : a catalogue of books illustrating the history of medicine and science
• The book of the Tudor and Stuart Club of the Johns Hopkins University
• The gold-headed cane
• The life of Pasteur
• Incunabula medica : a study of the earliest printed medical books, 1467-1480
• The evolution of modern medicine : a series of lectures delivered at Yale University of the Silliman Foundation in April 1913
• Counsels and ideals from the writings of William Osler
• The old humanities and the new science
• Contributions to medical and biological research : dedicated to Sir William Osler in honour of his seventieth birthday, June 12, 1919
• A concise history of medicine
• Creators, transmuters, and transmitters, as illustrated by Shakespeare, Bacon, and Burton : remarks made at the opening of the Bodley Shakespeare Exhibition, April 24, 1916
• Man's redemption of man : a lay sermon, McEwan Hall, Edinburgh, Sunday July 2nd, 1910
• Life and letters of Dr. William Beaumont : including hitherto unpublished data concerning the case of Alexis St. Martin
• Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. vol. XXI, no. 226, January, 1910
• Thomas Linacre
• The Quarterly journal of medicine
• Modern medicine : its theory and practice, in original contributions by American and foreign authors
• The growth of truth as illustrated in the discovery of the circulation of the blood : being the Harveian Oration delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, London, October 18, 1906
• The principles of clinical pathology : a text-book for students and physicians
• Science and immortality
• The master-word in medicine : an address to medical students on the occasion of the opening of the new buildings of the medical faculty of the University of Toronto, Oct. 1, 1903
• Typhoid fever and typhus fever
• Studies in typhoid fever : Nos. I, II and III
• Cancer of the stomach : a clinical study
• Lectures on angina pectoris and allied states
• Thomas Dover (of Dover's powder) : physician and buccaneer
• Teaching and thinking : the two functions of a medical school
• Lectures on the diagnosis of abdominal tumors : delivered to the post-graduate class, Johns Hopkins University, 1893
• The leaven of science : an address delivered at the opening of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology of the University of Pennsylvania, May 21, 1894
• On chorea and choreiform affections
• The diseases of the nervous system : a textbook for physicians and students
• Collected reprints of Dr. William Osler
• Teacher and student : an address delivered on the occasion of the opening of the new building of the College of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 4th, 1892
• The cerebral palsies of children : a clinical study from the Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, Philadelphia
• The bicuspid condition of the aortic valves
• On certain problems in the physiology of the blood corpuscles : delivered before the Association of the Alumni of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, March 23d, 27th, and 30th, 1886
• Reports, clinical and pathological. Vol. I
• Pathological reports (Montreal General Hospital)
• Hardwicke's science-gossip

This biographical work was written by WIlliam Osler about antebellum Alabama physician, John Young Bassett. He received his medical degree from Washington Medical College in 1830 and set up a medical practice in 1836 in Huntsville, Alabama, where he spent most of his life. Housed in the Reynolds-Finley Library is a Scrapbook on Slavery compiled and written by Bassett.