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Osler, William, Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books illustrating the History of Medicine and Science, collected, arranged, and annotated by Sir — and bequeathed to McGill University, 1st ed. reprinted / with new prologue, addenda and corrigenda, Montreal - Londres, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1969, xli + 792 pp.

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During his tenure as the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford from 1905-1919, Sir William Osler (1849-1919) amassed a considerable library on the history of medicine and science. A Canadian native, Osler had studied at McGill University and decided to leave his collection of 7,600 items to its Faculty of Medicine. A catalog, the "Bibliotheca Osleriana", was compiled - a labor of love that took ten years to complete and involved W.W. Francis, R.H. Hill, and Archibald Malloch. Osler himself laid down the broad outlines of the catalog and wrote many of the annotations. Osler once said, 'A library represents the mind of its collector'. "Bibliotheca Osleriana" is more than a catalog. It is the portrait of a great man. The first edition was published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, ten years after Osler's death in 1929. This edition is based on the 1969 reprint and includes an introduction by Lloyd G. Stevenson.
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Ed. original: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1929.
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The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).