Title:

Letter from William Osler to Henry Barton Jacobs

Creator:

Osler, William

Recipient:

Jacobs, Henry Barton

Date:

1 December 1913

Description:

In this letter, Osler told his friend about a Storer medal, and commented on the transition to full-time medical professorships at Johns Hopkins. The Rockefeller Foundation had given Johns Hopkins School of Medicine a 1.5 million dollar grant to follow this and other recommendations made by Abraham Flexner when he evaluated the medical school in 1911. Osler and others advised against the plan, as he indicated here. His post-script referred to an illuminated manuscript of the Canon of Avicenna given to him by his friend Dr. M. Sa'eed.

Original Repository:

Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. William Osler Collection

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Format:

Text

Extent:

3 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. William Osler Collection. 12829

Legacy ID:

GFBBXB

NLM ID:

101743406X378

Profiles Collection:

The William Osler Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101743406X378

Story Section:

Sir William: Regius Professor at Oxford, 1905-1919