A COMPENDIUM OF THE WORLD’S OSLERIAN SOCIETY PRESENTATIONS
WITH RARE ANNOTATIONS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE VARIOUS OSLERIAN CLUBS

PREPARED BY

CLYDE PARTIN, MD, FACP
MEMBER, AMERICAN OSLER SOCIETY
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE, EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
ATLANTA, GA 30322

Emory Internal Medicine Clinic, Third Floor, 1525 Clifton Rd., Atlanta, GA 30322
(O) 404-778-2894            (F) 404-778-2890            (H) 404-636-0408

email: clyde.partin@emoryhealthcare.org

Existing Societies

American Osler Society
Japanese Osler Society
London Osler Society
McGill Osler Society

Extinct Societies

California
Los Angeles
Mayo Clinic
Saranac Lake

Other Oslerian Connections

INTRODUCTORY NOTE


The cataloguing of the Osler Society presentations had as its genesis my curiosity about the nature of the talks in the earlier years of the society. Mark Silverman, President of the American Osler Society in 2000 had also conceived of a “talk about the talks” as he cleverly put it. Mark and others have kindly provided me with the programs of the earlier years and this project has moved forward with his approval and blessing. My work was jump started by the compilation of the first seventeen years by Jack D. Key and Barbara Tarpenning. As Osler has stated “the great republic of medicine knows and has known no national boundaries” and I have chosen to include the lectures from the London, Japanese and McGill Osler Societies. In addition, Oslerian Societies once existed at Saranac Lake, NY, Los Angeles, California and at the Mayo Clinic and I have included as many of those titles as I could locate. While perhaps the librarians or true historians could have done a better job of this, I chose to assemble the data myself and even do the tedious job of typing so that I might become more intimately acquainted with the material as I compiled it. Doing so has left me well prepared to analyze the titles to look for recurrent themes and unexpected currents. While Cushing and Bliss pointed out Osler’s distaste for the telephone (and no doubt he would have abhorred the beeper), I suspect Osler would have loved to communicate by email. That being the case, please email me at “clyde.partin @emoryhealthcare.org” if you see any errors of fact, omission or commission. Special thanks to the librarians at Trudeau Medical Institute, Osler Library at McGill University, and at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester for their enthusiastic assistance. I also thank my wife, Kim DeGrove, who, while not entirely understanding of my fascination with all things Oslerian, has put up with my early morning and late night typing on the computer without complaint.

ORGANIZATIONAL COMMENTS

The presentations are grouped by society and are in alphabetical order for some and by years for others. When there were two or more presenters, I have listed the other presenter(s). The asterisk identifies the lead author. The legend for abbreviations within the parenthesis is as follows:

JM…………………..John McGovern Lecture
PA…………………..Presidential Address
PO…………………. Published in The Persisting Osler
POII…………………Published in The Persisting Osler II
POIII..........................Published in The Persisting Osler III
R………………… …Radbill Lecture.
SS…………………. Special Symposium
ST…………………. Student Presentation

Many of the presentations are published elsewhere. The interested reader is advised to review An Annotated Checklist of Osleriana, Volumes I and II, edited by Earl Nation, Charles Roland, and John McGovern, for further information on if and where a talk has been published.
 

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Last updated:  Tuesday, 26 June 2007