Stewart Paton (1865-1942) was a Johns Hopkins-affiliated psychiatrist and director of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital for Mental Patients. He became a leader in the mental hygiene and eugenics movements of the early twentieth century, and helped secure funding for the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Institute of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In this note, written as Osler returned from the British Medical Association meeting and interviews at Oxford, he told Paton of his decision to accept the Regius Professorship. Osler wrote many such notes to family and colleagues on this return voyage.
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