[OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919.]


DONALDSON, HENRY H. 1857-1938; AND CANAVAN, MYRTELLE M. 1879-1953. A Study of the Brains of Three Scholars: Granville Stanley Hall, Sir William Osler, and Edward Sylvester Morse. [Offprint from:] Journal of Comparative Neurology, volume 46, number 1, August 1915, Philadelphia: Wistar Instiute Press. 4to. 12 plates. Grey printed wrappers. In a study conducted at Philadelphia's Wistar Institute, the brains of three scholars were examined and compared. This offprint includes photographs of the brains from every angle. Osler wrote a few weeks before he died, "Autopsy, most careful by Gibson & Edwin. The brain goes to the Wistar Institute Philadelphia for description." Henry Donaldson wrote to Harvey Cushing from the Wistar Institute in 1920: "The brain is here and in good order but I have not studied it. Have you any suggestions as to such a study especially in relation to the use which you would like to make of the results?" (See William Feindel, "Osler's Brain Again." Osler Library Newsletter number 64, June 1990 — xerographic copy included).