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OSLER, William (1849-1919) : A 1 1/2pp Signed Autograph Letter to Mrs Carter, Written from 13 Norham Gardens Oxford, 25 Xii 1917

Osler writes to Mrs Carter "Dear Mrs Carter, I am keeping one of the books -, & will bring back the other. Many Thanks. It has been a great pleasure to see the good man. The profession owes him a great deal - such a fine life has been an example & inspiration to many. With best wishes Wm. Osler". In the blank area below this Mrs Carter has written: "Sir Wm. told me an officer on ergotomine he met at Taplow told him of the wonderful influence my husband had on the staff & said the character of the men entirely changed after he joined up. Mrs Carter was the wife of Alfred Henry Carter (1849-1918), noted clinician and Birmingham medical personality, being instrumental in the founding of Birmingham University. He was Professor of Medicine there. He retired from medical practice in 1913, by which time his chief publication, The Elements of Practical Medicine (1881), had reached eleven editions. Following the outbreak of the First World War, Carter served for a time as physician to the army hospital at Wimereux and afterwards on the two hospital ships ‘Aquitania’ and ‘Britannic.’ He then returned to England, and as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the R.A.M.C. took over duties as Consulting Physician at the Tidworth Military Hospital, Wiltshire. He was twice mentioned in dispatches. Outside medicine he was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester. Sir William Osler (1849-1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians, and he was the first to bring medical students out of the lecture hall for bedside clinical training. He has frequently been described as the "Father of Modern Medicine"

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