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By Charles S. Bryan. 253 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1997. $37.95. ISBN 0-19-511251-2.

Max Brödel's 1896 cartoon, "The Saint," depicts William Osler atop a tornado, garbed as a heavenly angel (Figure 1). Haloed, small-winged and robed, with baby feet, large head, and familiar drooping moustache and dour countenance, he is part of the firmament above Johns Hopkins Hospital, ready to face down a horde of microbes assembled in ranks on the earth below. In later years, former colleagues and students, their students, and other assorted "Oslerians" would add to this early humorous depiction of sainthood a body of serious hagiography larger than that for any other physician except, possibly, St. Luke.

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