OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919.


The Principles and Practice of Medicine. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1909. 8vo (245 x 157 mm). Publisher's red cloth, rear hinge cracked. PRESENTATION COPY TO WILLIAM SYDNEY THAYER. Golden & Roland 1403.WITH: THAYER, WILLIAM SYDNEY. Osler and Other Papers. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1931. 8vo (230 x 146 mm). Publisher's blue cloth, advance copy slip tipped-in. Gutter cracked at half-title. PRESENTATION COPY WITH INSCRIBED CALLING CARD. Thayer's calling card inscribed to Abbott Lawrence Lowell ("To A.L.L. from W.S.T.") laid-in;WITH: HARVEY, A. MCGEHEE. MCKUSICK, VICTOR A. Osler's Textbook Revisited. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1967. 8vo (242 x 160 mm). Publisher's red cloth. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by both Harvey and McKusick.ADVANCE COPY INSCRIBED BY OSLER TO WILLIAM SYDNEY THAYER ("W.S.T. from W.O."). Thayer was a Harvard Medical School graduate who became Osler's second resident in 1890. He was appointed professor of clinical medicine in 1905, the year Osler left Johns Hopkins for Oxford. When preparing the seventh edition of his textbook, Osler wrote to his successor at Johns Hopkins Lewellys Barker regarding subsequent editions: "It would be very nice if you and Thayer came in with me as joint authors. It would be possible, I think, to arrange to have the work kept up as a Johns Hopkins Hospital Text-book of Medicine" (Golden, A History of William Osler's The Principles and Practice of Medicine). Although Barker and Thayer would not take up this responsibility, Thayer went on to serve as director of the Department of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1919 to 1921.