Title:

Letter from William Osler to Stewart Paton

Creator:

Osler, William

Recipient:

Paton, Stewart

Date:

5 July 1905

Description:

Stewart Paton (1865-1942) was a Johns Hopkins-affiliated psychiatrist and director of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital for Mental Patients. He became a leader in the mental hygiene and eugenic movements of the early twentieth century, and helped secure funding for the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Institute of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In this note, Osler thanked Paton for the copy of his "Textbook of Psychiatry for the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine," which soon became a standard text in the field. Although Paton helped with the establishment of the Phipps Institute, he left Baltimore in 1904 to do research, then was at Princeton for 17 years and Yale for 2 years before returning to Johns Hopkins in 1928.

Original Repository:

Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. Stewart Paton Collection

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. Stewart Paton Collection. 12845

Legacy ID:

GFBBYX

NLM ID:

101743406X417

Profiles Collection:

The William Osler Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101743406X417

Story Section:

"Father of Modern Medicine": The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1889-1905