TY  - JOUR
T1  - DR osler's relapsing fever
AU  - Markel H
Y1  - 2006/06/28
N1  - 10.1001/jama.295.24.2886
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2886
EP  - 2887
VL  - 295
IS  - 24
N2  - 
These physicians-to-be represented America’s, indeed the world’s, best and brightest hopes for a healthy future. Their medical school, Johns Hopkins (named for the dyspeptic, cranky, but decidedly wealthy Quaker merchant who endowed it), had only opened its doors 3 years earlier in provincial Baltimore, Maryland. But it had immediately assumed the vanguard of fin de siècle Western medicine as the profession leaped from blind allegiance to centuries-old, not infrequently toxic, medications and heroic surgical measures to the laboratory-based enterprise that characterizes modern medical practice.2

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.295.24.2886
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.295.24.2886
ER  -