OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919.


Farewell Address of Dr. William Osler at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. February 22, 1905. Providence: Snow & Farnham, 1905. 8vo. Publisher's green printed wrappers. See Golden & Roland 1179.WITH: 8 related publications, comprising: 1. TROLLOPE, ANTHONY. The Fixed Period. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1882. 8vo. Half leather and marbled boards. 2. WILLIAMS, HUNTINGTON. Dr. Osler and "The Fixed Period." n.p., [but Montreal] 1923, unbound excerpt, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED .3. ROLAND, CHARLES G. The Infamous William Osler. [Offprint from:] The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 193, pp 436-438, August 1965.4. ---. Osler. The Fixed Period. In: Sir Wiliam Osler 1849-1919: A Selection for Medical Students, pp 9-25,Toronto 1982. 5. BEAN, WILLIAM B. Osler, Trollope and the Fixed Period. [Offprint from:] Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association, volume 78, 1966. SIGNED.6. GRUMAN, GERALD. Editor. The "Fixed Period" Controvery: Prelude to Ageism. New York: Arno Press, 1979. Publisher's green cloth. Printed bibliography laid in. 7. BERK, STEVEN. Sir William Osler, Ageism, and "The Fixed Period," a Secret Revealed. [Offprint from:] Journal of the American Geriatric Society, volume 37, pp 263-266, 1989. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED.8. GOLDEN, RICHARD L. Sir William Osler: Humanistic Thanatologist. [Offprint from:] Omega. Journal of Death and Dying, volume 36, number 3, 1997-1998. INSCRIBED AND SIGNEDAn unrecorded printing of Osler's popular (and problematic) farewell address that included his greatly misunderstood comments on chloroform at sixty. Williams's piece was never published. Charles Roland, in item 4, writes "From this innocent reference [to the Fixed Period] arose a misunderstanding of classic dimensions. Fanned by headline-seeking newspapers, a few critics accused Osler of openly advocating the chloroforming of our elder citizens, a posture so foreign to Osler's true temperament that it should have been obviously false."