OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919.


An Account of Certain Organisms Occurring in the Liquor Sanguinis. [Offprint from:] The Proceedings of the Royal Society, number 153, [London], 1874. 8vo. Plain wrappers, stitched, hand-titled on cover in ink. Minor spotting, vertical crease, a few margin notes.PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "With the Author's kind regards" on the first text page. "One of the best early descriptions of the blood platelets was given by Osler. He noticed that white thrombi were almost entirely composed of them" (Garrison-Morton) Osler undertook the research that he reported in this paper when he was working in John Burdon Sanderson's physiology laboratory at University College, London. He was just twenty-four years old when he submitted this article for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. "One of the most important of Dr. Osler's contributions to medicine" (W. T. Councilman, "Some of the Early Medical Work of Sir William Osler," Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, 1919). Inscribed offprints from Osler's earliest period are extremely rare. Cushing 1, pp 117-119; Garrison-Morton 875; Golden & Roland 5.