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Dr. William Osler: Some Reflections
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Dr. William Osler: Some Reflections
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Dr. William Osler (1849-1919), a graduate of McGill University's Faculty of Medicine (1872) and a member of that Faculty for ten years (1874-1884), was considered one of the world's most distinguished physicians at the turn of the twentieth century. The author points out that Osler was also a man of letters in the mid-nineteenth century. His writings were influenced by the turbulence of the Anglican Church at the period, and by the philosophic disruptions engendered by Darwin. The author explains that Osler transformed his waning idealism for religious faith into his love for medicine. He was important to medical reforms throughout North America. The author concludes that Osler believed that science, while distinct from what he termed "priest-craft," was not adverse to spirituality or even to religion "proper."
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Studies in Canadian Literature / Études En littérature Canadienne
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Vol. 5
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no. 2
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260-279
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Fall 1980
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en
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Middlebro, Tom. “Dr. William Osler: Some Reflections.” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études En littérature Canadienne Vol. 5, no. 2 (Fall 1980): 260–279. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/issue/view/708.
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