macmichael william osler (12 resultados)

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leather_bound. Condición: Used-Very Good. Reprint Edition. Quarter leather, gilt decorated. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon. Text clean, tight binding.

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition thus. Paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, gilt front board decoration (the cane), top edge gilt, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 261 pp., index. Very good (a little foxing and slight soiling, spine and boards; spine lettering moderately faded; attractive bookplate, front pastedown; binding tight and pages clean). Introduction by Sir William Osler. (3214002).

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 4th Edition. 4to. Original gilt cloth fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Dr. William Kerr of the University of California frontis of the actual cane now in the museum in London. A charming autobiography tells of the adventures of the famous gold headed cane, successively in the possession of Drs. Radcliffe, Mead, Askew, William and David Pitcairn and Baillie. The interior of the cane was a secret compartment to house various potions and drugs and antidotes to treat patients hence It was gold headed. a fine copy of a private press edition thus.

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Frontispiece, xxiv, 4 leaves, 261 pp; illus. Top edge gilt. Original 1/4-vellum and boards. Vellum spine very soiled (see photo). Vertical fore edge foxed. Very Good. SIGNED BY WILLIAM OSLER TO LEONARD GUTHRIE: "Leonard Guthrie/ from/ Wm Osler/ June 22nd/ 15" (see photo). A typographical error--the incorrect "mauu" instead of the correct "manu"--has been corrected with the word "manu" in pencil in the margin on p. 107. I think the correction was made by William Osler. Leonard George Guthrie died in an accident on December 24, 1918 (he was 60 years old). An obituary in the British Medical Journal of January 4, 1919, includes a tribute by Osler in Guthrie's memory. Among other things, Osler writes in his tribute to Guthrie: "It was also a special pleasure to meet him at the Children's Clinical Club, or the sections of the Royal Society of Medicine. The history of medicine formed a bond of sympathy between us, and in the organization of the section in this subject at the Royal Society of Medicine his co-operation was invaluable." Osler mentions Guthrie in a letter to Weir Mitchell (November 18, 1910), referring to one of Guthrie's books on pediatric neurology and calling him an "old friend" (Cushing, Life of Osler, Vol. II, p. 251). "Fourth Edition" of The Gold-Headed Cane, the "Osler edition". "In his Introduction . . . Sir William Osler records his approval of a new issue of Macmichael's work, and, in a few brief paragraphs, touches on the salient characteristics of each of the owners of the Cane. . . . Packard's edition is unique in three respects: It is the first one to furnish a biographical sketch of Macmichael; it is the first one to offer a complete (short-title) bibliography of Macmichael's works; and it is the first one to bear the name of William Macmichael on the title-page" (Herbert Spencer Robinson, Introduction to the sixth edition of The Gold-Headed Cane, which Robinson edited, Froben Press, 1932, p. xxv). Harvey Cushing writes of William Osler in relation to the holders of the Gold-Headed Cane: "Osler himself in his make-up was a sort of twentieth century edition of these six mean rolled into one--though with less of Radcliffe perhaps than of the others; and of Richard Mead more. Samuel Johnson once said of Mead that he lived more in the broad sunshine of life than any man he knew; Osler's nature, likewise, had a southern exposure. He shared, too, with Mead and Askew their love of rare books, and like them also was the kind of collector who made his books accessible to others--qualities not always possessed by bibliophiles. What Austin Dobson said of Mead, that 'neither the princely Grolier nor the unparalleled Peiresc could have made a more unselfish use of their possessions', might equally well be said of William Osler" (Cushing, Life of Osler, Vol. II, pp. 39-40). Signed by Author(s).

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