id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-13477 Brodman, Estelle The Osler Library (Book Review) 1980-03-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1429 68 62 The Osler Library is thus more than just Osler's collection: besides the Francis library, al- ready mentioned, it has been ~iven all the papers used by Cushing in writing his fa- mous Life of Sir William Osler; a large col- lection of Sinhalese medical olas and books on ophthalmology by Dr. Casey Wood; the Frank Dawson Adams collection in the his- tory of science and medicine; engravings and portraits from the Kalz collection formed in Czechoslovakia in the nineteenth century; other forms of pictures in the great collection of the cancer expert, Dr. John Howell Evans; manuscripts (including the famous poem In Flanders Fields) by the Montreal General Hospital pathologist Dr. John McCrae; as well as all the books in the McGill University Medical Library pub- lished before 1850. No author is given, but whoever was responsible for the grace- ful prose and the magnificent illustrations should be encouraged to do the same thing for other libraries elsewhere. cache/crl-13477.pdf txt/crl-13477.txt