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Show NOTEBPHYSICIAN THCEHBY DEATH Sir William Osier Dies After Af-ter Several Weeks' Illness at Oxford, Eng. OXFORD, England, Dec. 29. Sir William Wil-liam Osier, noted physician, who had been ill for several weeks, died here this evening. Although Sir William Osier was known to be seriously ill at his home in Oxford, where he ha'4 been Regius professor of medicine since 1904, recent advices had given hope for his recovery. Sir William, who passed his seventieth birthday last July, was stricken with pneumonia in November, but about the middle of that month was reported convalescent. A fortnight ago, however, he became worse. Cabled advices shortly afterward announced an-nounced him somewhat improved, while on Christmas day a message from him was received at the Johns Hopkins hospital hos-pital in Baltimore in which the famous physician extended Christmas greetings to all his old friends and announced that lie was "making a good' fight" after an empyema operation. Dr. Osier was professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins university from 1880 to 1904. He was born in Canada in 1849. Rom in Canada. Sir William Osier was one of the great men who sprang from Canadian soil. He was born in the province of Ontario and grew to be the most distinguished of four distinguished sons of a famous mother, the hundredth anniversary of whose birth was celebrated at Toronto on December De-cember 14, 1906. His first preceptor was the parist priest, to whom he acknowledged hie moral and mental indebtedness and tc whom he inscribed one of his learned works, "The Practice of Medicine." Receiving his medical degree from Mc-Gill Mc-Gill university in 1872, Dr. Osier placed the imprint of his ability on medica: learning to such a marked degree that within a few years he became an accepted ac-cepted authority in medical science. His great art lay in his skill in diagnosis and his profound knowledge of all the parts and functions of the human bodj and the various ills of nature. If uch a thing could be, he was a specialist in al. departments of medicine. Honored in Province. The late George Murray described hirr as "a rr.an of great and versatile genius. The province of Ontario characterized him as among the greatest living Canadians. Cana-dians. ' , , No small part of Dr. Osier's work la in his directing influence on the live! of others. His precepts were broad anc sound. Thousand of young men from al lands came under the eye of this teacher and thousands learned the lessons that he taught through his writings. Above all he urged work, so that the temptations of early or later years might be avoided To the youth he said: "There are other altars than that ol Venus on which to light your fives, youn? man work, Incessant, hard, earnesl work." . . , . . Of Dr Osier, it has been said, A more jovial Joker, a more epigrammatic and witty member of society never made an after-dinner speech." Perhaps it was because of this that n gained a reputation in the vast work which might otherwise and naturally-never naturally-never have heard of him as a ureal physician. Was Widely Misquoted. In 1903 at the Commemoration day ex ercises of Johns Hopkins university o Baltimore, in which he served as pro. fossor of medicine, Dr. Osier delivered t .hi address in which he spoke ot "tl c con i-parative i-parative uselessness of men above 41 . ?ea?s of age." Mis words, then spoke, without thought of how '"'7mf ' would be. passed round the ld , garbled form of every . variety He wa. ; Quoted, as having said, in e.fec that n nisi that age were ol no value in in rogress of humanity and that ,ncn w h. had reached the age of bO should m : Ch,TosierC,1remained si)erit the sub ice ' for a considerable period and the ' "noveiuestion was The Kixe. ' Period" written hy Anthony Trollops n -!18lM'. Osier was criticised by the l-ubli and press generally. |