OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919.


Science and War: An Address delivered at the University of Leeds Medical School. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915. 8vo (217 x 139 mm). Publisher's gray printed wrappers, chipping to spine, light pencil notations to front cover.PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY OSLER to an unknown recipient: "Best Wishes for 1916,/ WO." Osler delivered this address at the University of Leeds Medical School less than a month after his return to England from France. It includes sections devoted to war and history, scientific methods of destruction, the submarine, the modern battleship, the enormous power of present-day artillery, irrepressible gas, aircraft, care of the wounded in Napoleon's time and today, a hospital camp, reception of a convoy of wounded, progress of the wounded, the prevention of disease, and the treatment of wounds, among other topics. Revere Osler, the Osler's only child, would die on the front in August 1917, eleven months after his visit. Golden & Roland 1327.