OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919.


Autograph Letter Signed ("Wm Osler") to [James B.] Herrick following Osler's 1901 address at Rush Medical College, 2 pp, 12mo, Sunday [May 1901,] on his Franklin St letterhead, minor toning, folds.The visit did me good - 'tis stimulating to see so many good earnest fellows." James B. Herrick (1861-1954) was professor of medicine at Rush Medical College when Osler visited and delivered this address on "the natural method of teaching the subject of medicine" to the Society of Internal Medicine. Herrick, who would publish classic descriptions of sickle cell anemia and coronary thrombosis, wrote in his autobiography, "No member of the Association of American Physicians had a more marked influence on me in my formative years than did William Osler" (Herrick, Memories of Eighty Years, Chicago, 1949, pp 211-217. See also Cushing 1, pp 552-553. Golden & Roland 1169.