Letter to James William White from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Has written to Makins and Bowlby to announce his arrival. They are having a slack time, the hospitals are empty. Mentions that he will be in Oxford on and off all summer. He will go with the McGill Unit when they will be settled and have patients. Mentions that several quarters have suggested that satisfactory help could be given by supplying house officers for the hospitals. Garrod of St. Bartholomew's has taken charge of the matter.
Letter to Emanuel Libman from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Thanks for the paper. Afraid that Plotz will be disappointed in Servia, as the typhus has almost gone. Mentions William Hunter who came back disappointed from a typhus expedition there. Things are quiet. Thinks that the Chicago and McGill men will be short of work at first. Delighted at the foundation of Janeway Lecture at Mount Sinai. Asks for recent post-mortems on erythmraemia cases with careful bone marrow studies. Mentions that Revere is with the McGill Unit as their assistant quartermaster. Mentions that he will go help them for a month as soon as they be settled. Civilities. Love to Jacobi.
Letter to Featherston Osler from William Osler, From the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Glad he liked the book. Copies were sent to Carol and to Ferrar Davidson. The copies have all gone now to Edmund Boyd. Sends him a copy of Gilbert Murray's book on Sir Edward Grey. Mentions that Norman and Campbell have been with them. News from them and from Frank and Belle. Revere writes happily from Etaples, near Boulogne. He is busy and it is a first-rate job for him, and it will give him a thoroughly good training. Civilities.
Letter to Thomas Archibald Malloch from William Osler, From the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Glad to hear that he is finding treasures. Mentions that there would be no difficulty in getting at any letters sent to the Record Office. Remembers Mrs. Lomar telling him that she had some of Finch's letters. Comments about the list he sent. Miss Parker will do the translations.
Letter to Simon Flexner from William Osler, From the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Sends him Gordon's letter. The letter follows : Explains that they tried Vedder's starch agar and they are pleased with it. Technical details about his composition. Technical details about the meningococci's reaction with Flexner's serum, Mulford serum and the Pasteur Institute serum. Mentions that the Lister Institute and Burroughs, Wellcome and Co. have been preparing serum from strains from their cases. Robb asks him for cultures for Flexner, but his letter arrived too late, so he wired him to get some from Beattie.
Letter to Thomas Stephen Cullen from William Osler, From the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Glad that he had made a good recovery. Jokes about his operation. Civilities.
Letter to Simon Flexner from William Osler, From the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Informs him that the meningitis has practically gone, with an occasional resurgence, as at Birmingham. Sure that it will come back next winter with the new recruits. Has sent on his note to Gordon, whose work has been most satisfactorily. Robb's results have been excellent. They are settled down to the idea of a protracted war, two or three years at least. Gives his opinion on the strength of Germany. Deplores the gulf that is being dug between such nice people as were so many of their professorial friends and the rest of the world. Revere has gone to France with the McGill Unit. Civilities.
Extract from Archibald Malloch's journal. They went at a meeting of the Physiological Society. Dinner at Magdalen. They had a meeting at the table where they decided to bring out "Physiological Abstracts".
Extract from Archibald Malloch's journal. Osler and he went to the Bodleian. Osler said that " one must get Bayle's Encyclopaedia Medical, and Bibliography".
