OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919.


Case of cholesteatoma of floor of third ventricle and of the infundibulum. New York, 1887. 8vo (236 x 160 mm). 7 figures drawn by the author. Offprint from The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol XIV, November-December, 1887. Publisher's printed wrappers, chipping to upper spine, minor soiling.Provenance: Dr. F.X. Dercum (pencil note to cover).PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY OSLER, "With kind regard." "In this, one of his longest case histories, the post mortem, the slides, and apparently the drawing were made by Osler himself" (Golden & Roland 311). Neurologist Francis Dercum (1856-1931) joined with Osler, Joseph Leidy, William Pepper, and a few other prominent Philadelphia physicians and natural scientists agreed to donate their brains to the Wistar Institute for study after their deaths. Cushing I, p 196; Golden & Roland 311.