Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2123

SIR WILLIAM OSLER (1849-1919) An Alabama student. Friedenwald 1896 [First separate reprinting]. 19 pp. 20.3 cm.

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Osler wrote a number of biographical and historical papers, and the present one is an interesting and well-known example. This biographical sketch of Dr. John Y. Bassett, an almost unknown physician from Huntsville, Alabama, who died as a comparatively young man in 1851, was based on a small packet of letters and two articles which Dr. Bassett had written. Osler makes of this slight evidence a graceful address on "a man of whom you have never heard, a humble student from a little town in Alabama." The address, presented to the Johns Hopkins Historical Club in January, 1895, was first printed in the Johns Hopkins Hospital bulletin in 1896. This little pamphlet is the first separate reprinting. It was later included in a popular collection of essays and addresses, An Alabama student, and other biographical essays.

Cited references: Osler 3576, No. 166