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By Michael Bliss. 581 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. $35. ISBN 0-19-512346-8.

Since his death in 1919, William Osler has been the subject of intense biographical interest. Although Harvey Cushing's Pulitzer prize–winning Life of Sir William Osler (London: Oxford University Press, 1925), which is more than 1400 pages long, remains the definitive (if uncritical) biography, it belongs to a life-and-letters tradition of a more leisurely age than our own. Bliss's streamlined narrative of fewer than 600 pages is meant to introduce Osler to a generation for whom he is little more than a medical icon.

Born in a rural community in Ontario, Canada, Osler attended the medical school at McGill University, which . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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