Letter to J. Collins Warren from William Osler, 1, West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. "Contributors to International Text Book of Surgery." Osler recommends three surgeons in Montreal: F.J. Shepherd, James Bell, and George Armstrong. For Toronto, he recommends I.H. Cameron and Peters.
Letter to J. Collins Warren from William Osler, 131, South 15th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Osler will go to Montreal to assist in the opening of the new buildings of the McGill Medical School with Pepper. As a result, Osler will miss Warren's lecture at the Philadelphia Pathological Society. Additional notes by Warren. Includes manuscript notes.
Letter to John Collins Warren from William Osler, From the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. He has asked Mrs. Meyers to send him all the Ether Day addresses and a copy of the Jubilee Celebration. He has Warren's address and Welch's bound together. Sends him a copy of his anaesthesia classification. Details about it. They are bedevilled to death with many things. It is a great comfort to have visits from Americans everyday. Invitations to his son to visit them.
Letter to John Collins Warren from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Greetings for the new year. Hopes 1918 will see the world through this bloody mess. Mentions their hearts broken. Invites Warren's son to phone them when he will be in England. They had 14 American surgeons at their Christmas dinner. Will send him shortly his scheme of his catalogue under the section Anaesthesia. Still lacks three items of primary importance : Morton's original papers and the Boston Medical and Surgery Journal for 46-47. Goodspeed says they can be found.
Letter to John Collins Warren from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Letter dated 4th, 1917?, but classified by Cushing on the 4th of December 1916. Compliments on an extract (of an interview of C.H. Parker in the Harvard Bulletin). It will go in his B. Franklin's edition of the "de Senectute" which was given to him on a New York dinner mentioned in the extract. They do not wish peace except on their own terms: Reparation, Restitution and Security. Mentions their anxiety for Revere who is with his battery in France. Details about him. Details on his Anaesthesia collection. He bought the original Simpson pamphlets and vol. IV of 8th edition of the Britannica Encyclopedia to cut out Simpson's chloroform article. Offers his help for the anesthetic collection at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Mentions that he would like to have the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal for 1846. Would like Mrs. Myers to send a duplicate of it. He also wants Bigelow's paper on Simpson. Has written to Sturgis B. about it. Civilities.
Letter to John Collins Warren from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Thanks for the book on the Humane Society. Asks him to give his congratulations to the author. He is busy. They expect McCaw and Washburn for lunch.
Letter to John Collins Warren from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Thanks for his contribution to the Anniversary volumes.
Letter to John Collins Warren from William Osler, From the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Tells him to publish the Pulmoto paper. Reminds him the practises at the Philadelphia Hospital in 1886, of the treatment of consumptives. He has sent his paper on the Early Anaesthesia literature and a note on the classification to the Annals of Medicine. Will ask the latter to send a proof to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Repeats his request for the volume 35 of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. All goes well. They have Americans almost everyday. Mentions Jason Mixter, Boggs, Halsey, and Crile. Civilities.
Letter to John Collins Warren from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Informs him that Macartney's things went to Cambridge. Sends him Macalister's letter. Mentions that Macalister has written a life of Macartney. Good comments on John Curtis' book on Harvey. It is a direct outcome of John C. Dutton's influence on Curtis. Asks him to tell George and Frederick Shattuck to read Curtis' book. All goes well. Revere is leaving the McGill Unit, will join the Imperial service, probably the Royal Field artillery. Induces him to encourage Streeter. Mentions that he is abed with the influenza. Civilities. P.S. Asks him to send the Memoir of the Warrens.