Sir William Osler (1849-1919) had a long and distinguished career as a physician and university professor. This work contains a selection of the talks given by Osler on medical ethics, medicine and the humanities, and the "way of life" he advocated for the ethical physician.[...]

William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught, and wrote about medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as Regius Professor at Oxford. At the time of his death in Engla[...]