Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1709 – 1784
William Osler biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of William Osler

Author Name:

William Osler

Born As:

William Osler

Other Names:

Born:

12 Jul 1849

Died:

29 Dec 1919




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Physician and professor                          
                          
Mother Ellen Free Picton
Father Rev. Featherstone Lake Osler - three children, two older brothers,  Britton Bath Osler and Edmund Boyd Osler .                          
Osler lent his name to a number of diseases and symptoms, as well as having buildings named after him.

Osler's sign is an artificially high blood pressure reading due to the calcification of atherosclerotic arteries.

Osler's nodes are raised tender nodules on the pulps of finger tips or toes, an autoimmune vasculitis that is suggestive of subacute bacterial endocarditis. They are usually painful, as opposed to Janeway lesions which are due to emboli and are painless.

Rendu-Osler-Weber disease - also known as hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia - is a syndrome of multiple vascular malformations on the skin, in the nasal and oral mucosa, in the lungs and elsewhere. 

Osler-Vaquez disease - also known as Polycythemia vera.

Sir William Osler Elementary School - Elementary School in Vancouver, British Columbia
Sir William Osler Elementary School - HWDSB Elementary School in Dundas, Ontario.
Sir William Osler Public School [1]- Simcoe County District School Board Elementary School in Bradford West Gwillimbury, Ontario and 3 kilometres away from his birth place, Bond Head, Ontario.
Promenade Sir-William-Osler adjacent to the campus of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec and leading to the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, which houses the Osler Library of the History of Medicine - formerly the upper section of rue Drummond.
William Osler Health Centre, renamed in 1998 as a union of Peel Memorial Hospital, in Brampton, Ontario, Etobicoke General Hospital in Toronto, Georgetown District Memorial Hospital which is now with Halton Health Care and the Brampton Civic Hospital which is presently under construction.                          
He has been called one of the greatest icons of modern medicine and described as the Father of Modern Medicine. Osler himself thought Avicenna held this honour.