Letter from Lawrence F. Flick to William Osler [Transcript]
Contributor(s):
Osler, William
Flick, Lawrence F.
Cushing, Harvey (Transcriber)
Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University. Osler Library Archive Collections, P417: Harvey Cushing Fonds
Flick had taken Osler's advice and will have the abstract and English version of Maragliano's lecture distributed. Flick adamantly refuses to associate himself in any way with Daniel Lewis and his Congress on Tuberculosis. If the majority of the men at the upcoming meeting of the Tuberculosis Committee agree to join with Lewis, Flick will do nothing to embarrass them, but will still refrain from participating. He would like to organize instead a United States Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, with Trudeau as president and Jacobs as secretary, which could make arrangements to bring the International Congress on Tuberculosis to the U.S.. [Description courtesy of McGill University.]. About this transcript: Soon after Osler's death in 1919, Lady Osler asked their good friend Dr. Harvey Cushing to write a biography. For this project, Cushing gathered a wide variety of material, including a substantial amount of Osler correspondence and other memorabilia borrowed from Osler's family, friends, and colleagues. He employed three secretaries to transcribe these documents, and later donated the transcripts (along with his other working materials) to the Osler Library. Because many of the original documents were returned to the owners, the Cushing transcripts constitute the largest and most accessible collection of Osler's correspondence.. Harvey Cushing's "Life of Sir William Osler" was published by Oxford University Press in 1925, and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1926.
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