TY  - JOUR
T1  - SIr william osler and robert burton's anatomy of melancholy
AU  - Dewey N
Y1  - 1969/12/22
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1969.03160380059014
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2245
EP  - 2250
VL  - 210
IS  - 12
N2  - We are commemorating this month not only the semicentennial of Sir William Osler's death, but also the 100th anniversary of a formative event in his life. It was during the winter of 1869-1870 that Osler became a resident member of the Bovell household in Toronto, where Dr. James Bovell, his inspiring mentor, provided the young medical student with his first serious opportunity "for browsing in a large library." As Osler gratefully recalled at the end of his long career, it was this valuable early experience which aroused in him "an enduring interest in books"—of which Dr. Bovell had collected only "the best [that] the human mind has afforded...."1(ppxvi-xvii) The precise content of that library is not known, but it certainly influenced the growth of his own lifelong avocation, the fruits of which (splendidly housed in the Osler Library at McGill University), reflect the humanistic sympathies of the great physician
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1969.03160380059014
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160380059014
ER  -