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Sir William Osler (* 12. July 1849 in bond Head, Canada west (today Ontario); "† 29 December 1919 in Oxford) was a Canadian physician. Around the turn of the century he was a most well-known physician in the English-language area, also today he frequently as a father of the modern medicine is designated.
William Osler buildup as youngest from nine children of Reverend Featherstone Osler and his Mrs. Ellen in Dundas. After its school time it visited the Toronto Medical School and afterwards the McGill university in Montreal starting from 1868. There it locked its medical study in the year 1872. Stay in different medical mechanisms, among other things in Berlin, followed Leipzig and Vienna, most time spent it at the University college London. After its return to Canada he became lecturer at medical Institut of the McGill university, in the year 1875 became he a professor there and informed physiology, pathology and medicine. 1884 he transferred the chair for clinical medicine at the university of Pennsylvania to Philadelphia, but 1888 he already changed to the John Hopkins university in Baltimore and became there a first professor for medicine. During the first four years in Baltimore it wrote its book The Principles Practice OF Medicine, which became short after its in the year 1892 the most outstanding medical text book its time. In the same year Osler Grace CROSS married, a great-granddaughter of the American freedom fighter Paul Revere. During an attendance in England in the year 1904 the royal chair for medicine at the University of Oxford was offered to it, which was reserved up to then alone English citizens. Although it maintained its Canadian nationality, it took over the chair 1905 and held it up to its death. During its time in Oxford he dedicated ever more, his library to his passion for books grew up himself to one the best ones. After its death she was handed over to the McGill university, which maintains her until today. For its large achievements in the area of the medicine Osler 1911 the British honour title Baronet was lent, to 1994 it into the Canadian resounds to OF Fame for the medical profession taken up. Sir William Osler died 1919 at bronchopneumonia and Empyemen. First he in the chapel the Christian Church was buried in Oxford, but since the death of its wife in the year 1928 the ash of Sir William and lady Osler in the Osler LIBRARY OF History rests on the McGill university.
Sir William Osler was not only an expert which the diagnosis of heart, lung and blood diseases concerned, but he introduced also the development of the medicine at that time to the today's modern medicine. Thus for the first time the physiological treatment of a patient with the psychological and clarified combined the meaning of the mental condition of a patient in the reference to its healing. Therefore it is regarded frequently as a father of the psychosomatischen medicine. Beyond that it had large influence on the development of the medical training, it was considerably involved in the development of the training further system for physicians, which applies today still. Also it ensured for the fact that one granted to handling the patients in the process of the medicine study more time. By its numerous publications it became an internationally regarded human physician and extended at its time the existing knowledge within many different ranges of the clinical medicine.
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