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An Alabama student : and other biographical essays / by William Osler, M.D., F.R.S.
LIBRA - Rare R117 .O83 1908
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine.
- Physicians--Biography.
- Physicians.
- Medical Subjects:
- Physicians.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Becker, Joseph M. (former owner)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 334 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 23 cm
- Distribution:
- London : Henry Frowde.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : Oxford University Press Canadian Branch, 1908.
- Contents:
- An Alabama student [John Bassett]
- Thomas Dover, physician and buccaneer
- John Keats, the apothecary poet
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- John Locke as a physician
- Elisha Bartlett, a Rhode Island philosopher
- A backward physiologist
- The influence of Louis on American medicine
- William Pepper
- Alfred Stillé
- Sir Thomas Browne
- Fracastorius
- Harvey and his discovery.
- Notes:
- Frontispiece portrait of John Bassett has tissue guard.
- Red cloth cover lettered in gilt on spine.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph M. Becker, M.D. in 2011.
- Kislak Becker copy was gift of Dr. Bruce H. Hopkins to the Health Sciences Library, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Copy was withdrawn though a due date slip and pocket are pasted on back free endpaper and pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 4074081
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