An Annotated Life of Egerton Yorrick Davis, M.D., An Intimate of Sir William Osler

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Title
An Annotated Life of Egerton Yorrick Davis, M.D., An Intimate of Sir William Osler
Abstract
Describes a famous medical hoax perpetuated by Dr. William Osler (1849-1919), who graduated from McGill University in 1872 and taught at the university's Faculty of Medicine for ten years (1874-1884) before moving on to Johns Hopkins University in the United States and Oxford University in England. Osler was the author of numerous articles and letters to medical journals under the pseudonym of "Dr. Egerton Yorrick Davis", dealing with the bizarre and fictitious sexual case histories of his patients. Davis purported to be a retired US Army surgeon living in Caughnawaga, Quebec (now called Kahnawake), author of a controversial paper on the obstetrical habits of Native American tribes which was suppressed and unpublished. Osler would enhance Davis' myth by signing Davis' name to hotel registers and medical conference attendance lists. Davis was eventually reported drowned in Montreal's Lachine Rapids in 1884.
Publication
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Volume
Vol. 38
Issue
no. 3
Pages
259-297
Date
1983
Language
en
Citation
Tigertt, William D. “An Annotated Life of Egerton Yorrick Davis, M.D., An Intimate of Sir William Osler.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Vol. 38, no. 3 (1983): 259–297.
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