Contributions to Medical and Biological Research, in Two Volumes. Dedicated to Sir William Osler, Bart., M.D., F.R.S., in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday, July 12, 1919

Contributions to Medical and Biological Research, in Two Volumes. Dedicated to Sir William Osler, Bart., M.D., F.R.S., in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday, July 12, 1919

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xix, [3], 649, [5]; xi, [2], [650]-1268, [2] pp. 8vo. A collection of essays published to honor the influential physician William Osler on his seventieth birthday. Osler was co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital, and his creation of the first residency program and emphasis on teaching students through clinical experience rather than lectures led many to call him the father of modern medicine. First appearance of Garrison-Morton 6220, Thomas Stephen Cullen's 'Bluish discoloration of the umbilicus as a diagnostic sign where ruptured uterine pregnancy exists'. This is a work on the phenomenon known in the field as 'Cullen's sign'.