THE ·OSLER·LI BRARY·NEWSLE TTER· NUMBER 107 · 2007 Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal (Québec) Canada

• IN THIS ISSUE THE EARLIEST KNOWN FRENCH TRANSLATION THIS ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS THE OF GALEN (CA. 1530) AT THE OSLER LIBRARY Osler Library’s purchase of what appears to be a unique publication, th he Osler Library has roughly one gathering. It stands by an unknown 16 century edition of recently acquired from apart from the other, slightly later Galen’s Therapeutics to Glaucon – unique William Kemp* the rare book dealer editions of French translations of in that it is a translation from Latin T into French, the earliest known Bruce McKittrick a previously Galen, in that it was printed in a vernacular translation of a work from unknown 16th century edition of Bastard Gothic type, as can be antiquity of a medical text. William a French translation of Galen’s seen in the accompanying Kemp, research associate with the Therapeutics to Glaucon (Ad illustrations of the title page and French Department at McGill is the Glauconem de methodo medendi).1 The of the first page. (Fig. 2) The author of the featured article and the title of the book is Le deuxiesme liure colophon may have contained the specialist who brought this work to de Claude Galene intitule lart curatoire date of impression, but the title the attention of the Osler Library. a Glaucon. (Fig. 1) This quarto page does not – though it Our ability to purchase the text volume contains 32 leaves, but it provides the name of the Parisian results from the James Darragh Rare is incomplete at the end, lacking printer, Jérôme Denys or Denis. Book Endowment, recently es- tablished by The Harold Crabtree Foundation. It fits in perfectly with Osler’s wish to build the French language holdings of his collection. Dr. Richard Golden offers us a graceful article on Osler, this time concerning another incunable in our collection, presented to Osler by fellow members of the Colophon Club. We mourn the passing of two distinguished members of McGill’s Faculty of Medicine and supporters of the Osler Library, Dr. Charles Leblond and Dr. Patrick Cronin, former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. We note the recent meeting of the American Osler Society in Montreal and draw to your attention, the Library’s unexpected presence in outer space. Fig. 2 Start of Galen’s Le deuxiesme As this issue goes to press, we are saddened to hear that Dr. John liure lart curatoire a Glaucon. McGovern, Oslerian benefactor extraordinaire, has passed away. A full appreciation will appear in our next issue. Fig. 1 Galen’s Le deuxiesme liure de Claude Galene intitule lart curatoire a Glaucon. •

·1· • In all likelihood, the translation is Library, or major medical the new anatomy of the human based on Simon de Colines’s 1528 historical libraries (Wellcome, body by Vesalius, published in reprint of the new Latin Yale, Johns Hopkins). Nor does Basel in 1543 (Osler 567).4 translation of De arte curativa ad it appear in any of the key Glauconem libri duo by the humanist databases like WorldCat, the Less spectacular but still crucial Niccolò Leoniceno (†1524).2 Catalogue collectif de France, or was the work of Renaissance With 1528 as a terminus a quo, and COPAC in the UK. humanists who edited the texts of Here are a the fact that Denys is not known the medical writers of Antiquity, few to have printed any titles after Here are a few perspectives that especially Hippocrates and 1530 or 1531, we can confidently give some idea of the significance Galen.5 In 1510, Wilhelm Cop perspectives assign our Galen a date of ca. of this latest addition to the Osler from Basel, physician to King that give some 1530. This makes the Osler Galen collection. Among the milestones Louis XII of France and translator the earliest printed vernacular of Renaissance medicine are, of of Paulus Aegineta and Galen, idea of the translation in any language of a course, the discovery, description, wrote: “In view of the multitude significance substantial medical text from naming and proposed cures for [of ancient texts] that [the of this latest Antiquity, and the first such syphilis (Leoniceno’s De morbo Venetian printer] Aldus’ diligence addition to the Osler collection.

Fig. 3 De morbo gallico by Niccolò Leoniceno. Page a5r, Fig. 4 Beginning of Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus discussing various illnesses including elephantiasis and by Girolamo Fracastor. satyriasis, with numerous marginal notes. translation in French.3 No copy of gallico, 1497 (Osler 7452) (Fig. 3); has recovered for us, I thought it this edition is recorded in any Hutten’s De Guaiacum, 1519 (Osler worth trying to restore the ancient other major library, such as the 4974 and 4975); Frascatoro, medical authors also to something Bibliothèque nationale de France, Syphilis, sive Morbus gallicus, 1530 of their former glory”.6 Among the British Library, the Bodleian (Osler 4817) (Fig. 4), as well as these humanists must be • ·2· numbered François Rabelais, who vernacular languages of Italian, dominates: during the 1520s published an edition of the French, Spanish, German and alone, Lyon produced 6 editions Aphorisms of Hippocrates in Greek English. of Galen, while Parisian printers and in Latin at the press of put out a remarkable 42 editions.9 Sebastian Gryphius in Lyons in The imposing Galenic corpus was Among the early Latin editions of 1534 (1545 Paris edition: Osler printed in Greek at the Aldine Galen printed in Paris between 153, 164 (Fig. 5) and 394).7 The Press in Venice in 1525 (5 vol.: 1513 and 1520, Thomas Linacre’s recuperation of ancient medical Osler 350).8 Latin translations of translation of De sanitate tuenda, It now treatises, techniques and wisdom individual works of Galen were Paris 1517 (Osler 372), as well as appears, involved locating manuscripts, produced in quantity in Italy Willem Cop’s translation of De printing editions, translating and during the last decades of 15th affectorum locorum, Paris 1513 and however, that commenting on this large corpus. century but, beginning in the 1520 (Osler 379, etc.), are worthy the earliest In the case of Hippocrates and 1510s, France entered the field of note. Major Paris printers got Galen, that meant editing the with five editions from Lyon and involved in this effort: Henri I French original Greek texts, translating nine from Paris. From the 1520s Estienne (fl 1500-1520), Simon de translation of them into Latin and then into the on, and for several decades, Paris Colines (1520-1546), Simon du a medical text from Antiquity was published in Paris in about 1530, …

Fig. 5 Hippocrates’ Aphorismorum sectiones Fig. 6 The beginning of “La protestation” or oath of septem…. Hippocrates. ·3· • Bois (fl 1526-1529), Christian blocked Willem Cop, maistre regent recently, this view has been Wechel (1526-1554), to name (“regent master” or professor), confirmed by the extensive only a few. Such translations both from giving his courses in French bibliographical studies on editions facilitated and promoted the in 1498.12 Durling attributed the in French by Stone (1953) and on transfer of Greek medical terms late appearance of French editions of Galen by Durling into Renaissance medical translations of Galen to this (1961).16 It now appears, however, language, which was basically sectarian rivalry: “Such pro- that the earliest French translation It was one of Latin. fessional jealousy goes far, he of a medical text from Antiquity Osler’s most claimed, to explain why we do not was published in Paris in about In the first half of the 16th find French versions of Galen 1530, roughly seven or eight years progressive century, Paris shared the market until the late 1530s”.13 This may before the Lyonese imprints. wishes for his for medical books with Lyon, but well be true, but we now have an Indeed, the ca. 1539, Lyon edition dominated in the production of earlier translation to take into of the 2nd Book of Galen’s Library that Latin translations and Greek account. therapeutics seems to represent a it would editions of Galen. Nevertheless, reprint of the text of Denys’s actively the first important group of Following in Cop’s footsteps, edition. vernacular translations of Galen’s Canape wrote in 1541 in the collect Therapeutics in French was printed appendix to his translation of This edition of Jérôme Denys historic works in Lyon between 1537 and 1539, Galen’s Mouvement des muscles: “l’art raises numerous questions. The beginning with the 4th Book in de medecine et chirurgie ne gist dating of the appearance of many of medicine in 1537 and the 13th and the 14th pas du tout aux langues, car c’est Greek medical terms in French the French in 1538. In 1539, there appeared tout ung de l’entendre en Grec ou must be adjusted. The history of language… an edition of Books 3, 4, 5, 6 and Latin ou Arabic ou francoys, ou the title border should be 13 with a preface by the editor, (si tu veulx) en Breton Bretonnant, investigated, as well as the career Étienne Dolet, a defender of pourveu qu’on l’entende bien. of the bookseller Denys (fl 1527- Ciceronian Latin but also, from Jouxte la sentence de Cornelius 1530). It will also be interesting 1538 on, one of the early Celsus, lequel dict que les to study the translation of the promoters of the French language, maladies ne sont pas gueries par Hippocratic oath that was printed “le françois, langue du roi François eloquence, mais par remedes”. on the recto and verso of the Ier”. Editions of Books 2 and 14 (“The art of medicine and surgery second leaf of the volume, as a sort followed. Collected volumes is not confined by language. It is of preface to Galen. (Fig. 6) How containing these translations of irrelevant whether you under- accurate are the translations? Books 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 13 and 14 of stand it in Greek or Latin or Who might the translator be? If Therapeutics, printed in Lyon, are Arabic or French – or deepest this translation is really from held in Paris and London, as well Breton, for that matter – provided about 1530, how can we best as at Harvard, Yale and the you understand it! It is the opinion explain the lapse in time before National Library of Medicine in of Cornelius Celsus that diseases the Lyonese launched their Bethesda.10 are not cured by eloquence, but editions of the therapeutics in by remedies.”)14 Shortly there- French? In collaboration with The principal translator was the after, in 1545, the barber-surgeon Professor Faith Wallis (History), surgeon Jean Canape, vulgarisateur Ambroise Paré, who had read Professor Diane Desrosiers-Bonin par excellence. His work came out Galen in French, published what (French) and Professor Évèlyne at the end of a long period of appears to be the first original Berriot-Salvadore (Montpellier, friction between the surgeons and medical treatise to be printed in France), we hope to study this the barbers-surgeons in Paris. French, his Maniere de traicter les exceptional artifact. One aspect of During the 1490s, the surgeons de playes.15 this research project will be to robe longue (“of the long robe,” i.e. publish the text of this edition members of a learned profession) This overall picture of the with the pages from the original forbade the dispensation of development of medical studies in on the Osler Library website. courses in French to the lower- France and of the major role of class barber-surgeons, de robe courte the Lyonese in vernacular It was one of Osler’s most (“of the short robe,” or members translations during the reign of progressive wishes for his Library of a craft), insisting that that they François Ier (1515-1547) has been that it would actively collect follow courses on anatomy in evident at least since the middle historic works of medicine in the Latin.11 Their corporation of the 19th century. Fairly French language, and thus

• ·4· stimulate scholarly collaboration of the ‘Chirurgia’ of Giovanni de and the Bibliothèque Sainte- between the linguistic com- Vigo: Estimate of His Position in Geneviève in Paris, plus the Royal munities of Montreal. This is a the History of Surgery”, World College of Physicians in London. fine addition to Dr. Osler’s Journal of Surgery, 27 (2003), pp. 11.Ernest Wickersheimer, La médecine remarkable collection of early 616-23. et les médecins en France à l’époque de la medical imprints, which remain a 4. Osler numbers taken from Renaissance, (Paris: Maloine, 1906), William Osler, Bibliotheca Osleriana: pp. 137-142. fundamental strength of the Osler a Catalogue of Books Illustrating the 12.Ernest Wickersheimer, Dictionnaire Library. History of Medicine and Science biographique des médecins en France au This is a fine (Montreal, McGill-Queen’s Moyen Âge, (Paris: 1936; reprinted addition to University Press, 1969). For short Geneva: Droz, 1979), pp. 235- descriptions and illustrations of 236. Dr. Osler’s two of these books, see 75 Books 13.Durling, “A Chronological remarkable from the Osler Library, ed. Faith Census” (n. 6), p. 241. * I want to thank Faith Wallis for collection of corrections to and suggests for this Wallis and Pamela Miller 14.Ferdinand Brunot, “La langue au (Montreal: Osler Library, McGill XVIe siècle”, in Histoire de la langue early medical text, as well as for her enthusiastic University, 2004), pp. 40-41 and et de la littérature française dès origines support of this project. 82-83. à 1900, Vol. 3: Seizième siècle, ed. imprints, 5. For basic, up-to-date information Louis Petit de Julleville, (Paris: which remain on Galen and Hippocrates during Colin, 1897), pp. 639-855 at 674- the Middle Ages, see Medieval 75. a Science, Technology, and Medicine: an 15.On this work, see Paule Dumaître, fundamental Encyclopedia, ed. Thomas Glick, Ambroise Paré, chirurgien de quatre rois References Steven J. Livesey and Faith Wallis de France (Paris: Perrin, 1986), strength of the (New York: Routledge, 2005), pp. chap. 6 (pp. 81-87) ; also 1. The text is to be found in the 179-182 and 224-226. Gurunluoglu et al., “Review of the Osler Opera omnia of Galen, ed. C.G. 6. Cited by Richard J. Durling, “A ‘Chirurgia’ of Giovanni de Vigo”, Library. Kühn, Vol. XI (Leipzig: Chronological Census of p. 620, as well as Mireille Cnobloch, 1826), pp. 71-146. Renaissance Editions and Huchon, “Définition et 2. On Leoniceno, see Dina Bacalexi, Translations of Galen”, Journal of description : Ambroise Paré “Trois traducteurs de Galien au the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, chirurgien méthodique et XVIe siècle : Niccolò Leoniceno, 24 (1961), pp. 230-305 at 236- huguenot”, in Ambroise Paré, 1510- Guillaume Cop, Leonhart Fuchs”, 237. 1590: pratique et écriture de la science à Lire les médecins grecs à la in 7. See Caroline Magdelaine, la Renaissance. Actes du colloque de Pau, Renaissance. Aux origines de l’édition “Rabelais éditeur d’Hippocrate”, 6-7 mai 1999, ed. Évèlyne Berriot- médicale : actes du colloque international in Lire des médecins grecs à la Salvadore and Paul Mironneau, de Paris, 19-20 septembre 2003 , ed. Renaissance (n. 2), pp. 61-83. (Paris: Champion, 2004), pp. 201- Véronique Boudon-Millot and 8. See 75 Books from the Osler Library, 227 at 207. Other candidats for Guy Cobolet (Paris: Boccard, p. 9. the title of first original medical 2004), pp. 247-69 at 248-50. 9. Information taken from Durling’s text printed in French: 3. Among the few medical writings “A Chronological Census” (1961). Symphorien Champier’s Le guidon printed in French prior to 1530, 10.Good descriptions of these en francoys with his additions two at least should be mentioned: editions, printed by Guillaume (Lyons, 1503; and Lyons, 1520), (1) Jean Chéradame’s c.1523 Guelques, are provided in as well as his Myrouel des translation of Ulrich von Hutten’s Baudrier’s Bibliographie lyonnaise. Appothiquaires et pharmacopoles L’experience et approbation touchant la Recherches sur les imprimeurs, libraires, (Lyon, 1531). Dr. Osler’s medicine du boys, dict Guaiacum, relieurs et fondeurs de lettres de Lyon au collection includes most of printed in Paris and then Lyons XVIe siècle, Vol. 5 (Lyons, Brun; Champier’s major Latin works. (see Kemp, “Les éditions de la Paris, Picard, 1901), pp. 288-294: 16.Howard Stone, “The French version Chéradame du Guaiacum Le Deusiesme Liure, no date (p. 289), Language in Renaissance de Hutten (c. 1523-1529) et les Le Quatoriesme Liure, 1538 (p. 292), Medicine”, Bibliothèque d’Humanisme débuts de l’humanisme médical en Le Troisiesme [and 4th, 5th, 6th and et Renaissance, 15 (1953), pp. 315- français”, Gutenberg Jahrbuch, 1992, 13th] Liure, ed. Dolet, 1539 (p. 346 ; Durling, “A Chronological pp. 161-189); (2) The French 293). Other composite volumes Census” (n. 6), pp. 260-61. La version of Giovanni da Vigo’s of these editions are held in the practique et chirurgie (Lyons 1525 et Bibliothèque municipale in 1537; Paris 1530; Latin ed., Rome Amiens and in Épernay, as well as 1514, Lyons 1516 and 1534: the Académie de médecine, the Osler 3330 and 4173). For a Bibliothèque nationale de France recent evaluation of Da Vigo, see Raffi Gurunluoglu et al., “Review ·5· • heard a very good paper on the tried in the casual studies of a old Chapter House at life devoted to hospital and WILLIAM OSLER Canterbury…”6 consulting practice to glean two things, the book AND THE A.W. Pollard,7 the Secretary biographies of the great men described this first attendance: of science, and the influence COLOPHON CLUB: “The Society needed new of their books in promoting Osler inspiration, and Osler brought it. the progress of knowledge. A LAST TRIBUTE transformed a … A meeting had begun, when The anatomy of the mind of the entrance of a stranger with an a man as shown in his book, potential by Richard L. Golden attractive mobile face, alert figure, and the physiology of the sinecure into and notably light tread, caused a book itself, so far as it has had a multifaceted t the peak of his career, whispered secretarial inquiry as to a definite function, though William Osler came to who he was. The answer came not perhaps bibliography endeavor that A England in 1905 to assume back that it was Professor Osler, proper, serve to illustrate its brought new the chair of Regius Professor of and the Secretary had an story. And this plan of study Medicine at Oxford. Alarmed by instinctive conviction that his has its place. Revolutions are achievements occasional anginal pain and the coming meant much for the more rapidly effected in the and death of his 60-year-old brother, Society.”5,6 Indeed it did, for Osler arts than in the mind. honors… Britton Bath Osler, from coronary served on the Society’s Council Harvey’s demonstration of artery disease, Osler was strongly beginning in 1910, was elected the circulation of the blood motivated by the need for Vice-President in 1911, and was scarcely accepted by his surcease from the burdens of an President from 1913 until his own generation, but within a increasingly stressful career.1,2 To death in 1919.5 Osler, the longest few years after Jenner’s his colleague William Thayer,3 he serving president (undoubtedly a discovery the civilized world wrote: “I am on the down grade, function of the Great War), was vaccinated. It is not the pace of the last three winters described this as “an embarrassing surprising to find the have been such that I knew I was honour, as I feel so horribly invention of printing spread riding for a fall. Better to get out amateurish with all these so rapidly that, before the decently in time, & leave while professional fellows like Pollard— close of 1480, … some 350 there is still a little elasticity in the but it is a very nice group of men printers had been at work. It rubber.”4 & I have been on the Council for is estimated that the total three years as Vice-President.”8 output of the early presses in Embracing his new appointment Osler gave his first paper at the the fifteenth century at Oxford with distinctive Society’s monthly meeting in amounted to twenty million intensity and passion, Osler November 1909 speaking on “The copies. … transformed a potential sinecure Library of Robert Burton.”5,9 For into a multifaceted endeavor that his presidential address on January As my profession has never brought new achievements and 19, 1914 he spoke on “Printed before been honoured by the honors to this final phase of his Medical Books to 1480.”5,10 The presidency of the Biblio- career. Osler entered fully into the address was later edited, a preface graphical Society, it seemed intellectual life of England and provided by A.W. Pollard, a appropriate to try to indicate among the many organizations he bibliographical description by V. the influence which the was invited to join was the Scholderer,11 and the monograph introduction of printing had Bibliographical Society (founded published posthumously (1923) on medicine, to get, if 1892) to which he was elected a by the Bibliographical Society as possible, a mental picture of ‘candidate member‘ on March 19, Sir William Osler’s Incunabula professors and practice at the 1906. (The Society’s membership Medica: A Study of the Earliest Printed time from the characters of was limited to three hundred and Medical Books 1467-1480.5,10,12 books that they thought it the rolls were full.)5 Osler, worth while to have prin- passionate bibliophile and In his address13 Osler explained: ted … collector, wrote to a friend: “I have been elected a member of the Not an expert bibliographer, In describing Osler’s work as Bibliographical Society, which is but a representative of an president, the Secretary, A.W. most interesting. I attended the ever-increasing group of Pollard, wrote: “ ‘work’ is not quite first meeting last Monday and ordinary book-lovers, I have the right word, for he brought us • ·6· life and high spirits and would president of the Society he was further insight into the Club and give us no less even to the end.”8 ex officio president of the Club Osler’s influence: from January 1913 until his death The Colophon Club was the inner in 1919,15 bringing to it his Many of us will remember Sir circle of the Bibliographical characteristic energy and William most vividly as the Society, founded in January 1905, contagious enthusiasm. The president of the Colophon when the Council approved the London dinners from 1905 until Club, composed of London proposal to form a Dining Club 1914 were held at the elegant members of the Biblio- “ ‘work’ is not “with a view to showing Oddenino’s Imperial Restaurant in graphical Society who dine quite the right hospitality to the readers of Regent Street (near Piccadilly together two or three times papers and the Foreign and Circus) and provided intellectual, in a session and entertain word, for he American Members, and to the fraternal, and gastronomic readers of papers, especially brought us promotion of good fellowship.” Its pleasures for these ardent any who come from a members (initially thirty-five) Edwardians, who in the early distance. The Club takes its life and high were elected from the officers, years consumed a hearty repast of name from the Colophon or spirits and Council, and other invited “hors-d’œuvre, two kinds of soup final paragraph in early would give us books, giving details as to their authorship, printer, no less even to place and date. The Greek the end.” word taken over to denote this means a crowning stroke, and under Osler’s chair- manship the Colophon dinners formed an extra- ordinarily pleasant climax to the Society’s meetings. He was always in high spirits, always ready with some graceful compliments to the readers of papers, and full of friendliness and good stories. No dinners were held during the war but he called for one in January 1919 and outdid himself in his efforts to make it a success, incidentally insisting on providing champagne on the patently Figure 1. Oddenino’s Imperial Restaurant, London, ca. 1912. false pretext that it was the Secretary’s birthday! Many of those at the dinner never saw him again, but they would hardly have a brighter members of the Society.14 Osler (one thick, one thin), fish, a meat memory of him.19 became a member of the Club in course with vegetables, followed December 1907 but did not by game with salad, ham, an iced attend a dinner until 1909.15 In pudding and dessert” served with June 1911 he hosted an unusual “a bottle each of hock, claret, and extra-London meeting at Oxford port.”14 (Figure 1) and wrote to a friend: “I wish you could have been here Saturday James Atkinson (1759-1839) once night. I had the Colophon Club— described bibliography as “dry, a sort of inner circle of the dusty, tedious accursed, hateful,” Bibliographical Society—at a view perhaps shared by some, dinner at Christ Church—a very but not by Osler’s fellow interesting group of men.”16 As Colophonists.17,18 Pollard gives ·7· The book was • A meeting of the Colophon Club Dear Sir William, Dear Brother Colophonist, on July 12, 1919 paid tribute to accompanied Osler’s seventieth birthday The best of good wishes for You will be interested to by a presenting him with a choice your Seventieth Birthday know how your President presentation incunabulum, Johannes Jacobi’s from all of your book-loving survived his admission into Regimen contra pestilentiam Epidemiam, friends. The little book which the ranks of the ‘last lappers’. letter from c. 1498 (figure 2), the most comes with this is a present From our standpoint the Pollard, on popular plague tractate of the from those of them who have birthday was a great success. fifteenth century.5,14,20,21 The book really eaten a Colophon The anniversary volumes the stationery was accompanied by a Dinner under your Chair- with articles from 150 of the presentation letter from Pollard, manship. I hope you have not contributors26 are themselves Bibliographical on the stationery of the got the book already, but in a direct encouragement to Bibliographical Society, that any case you must look on it bibliography. As for the Society, … palpably expresses the devotion only as a handy form in which Regimen contra pestilentiam, of the Club: your Brother Colophons which you & others so kindly could put on record their sent, please accept my hearty affection for you. Needless to thanks for such a gem—both say, as we are Colophons, you author & printer have already must look at the end. stimulated my interest, which is the test of the value of any Ever yours, incunabula. An untouched Alfred W. Pollard 22 1859 Omar27 inscribed to Prof. Max Müller28 with the On a leaf of delicate laid paper compliments of the translator bound in at the end is printed the was a pleasant surprise on the names of the twenty-six members breakfast table. A present of of the Club,23 the cream of British the snuff-box of our lamented bibliography, and their accolade: friend Bannister,29 whose Vatican mixture had Presented to Sir William Osler stimulated the pineal gland of on his 70th Birthday by practicing all the chief continental members of the Colophon Club as bibliographers, has induced your President to take up a a little token of their affection for habit of such undoubted an unsurpassable President antiprogeric value.

12 July 1919 That a well-ordered 70th birthday may have all the Another example of this advantages of the final exitus presentation sheet is known24 may be shown by the July (Figure 3) and it seems likely that number of the Johns Hopkins a very limited number of copies Hospital Bulletin,30 which were printed for distribution to leaves nothing to be said. The the members of the Colophon end of the number brought Club either at the meeting or the thrill of the day, when I when it was announced. saw revealed the utter shamelessness of my life— Osler, in bed with bronchial and the true reason of our pneumonia, wrote a poignant and Secretary’s attachment to me! prescient letter of thanks later that A bibliography of my month to his friend Alfred W. writings extending to 730 Pollard:25 articles!31 An illuminated Figure 2. Johannes Jacobi’s Regimen contra pestilentiam Epidemiam, c. 1498

• ·8· address from the staff at provided Osler with an entrée to disorders. Am. J. Cardiol. 1978; 60: Bodley (not to have the wonders of the Library during 175-178. worshiped at whose shrine I his visit to Italy in February 3. William Sydney Thayer (1864- count the day lost), the 1909.29,33,34 1932). Clinician, investigator and promise of a medico-literary teacher in the tradition of William anthology in my honour,32 Osler died on December 29, 1919 Osler. Professor of Medicine Johns Hopkins University; with greetings from scores of and this last birthday gift from the President American Medical dear friends helped to Colophon Club that so pleased Association, 1928. (Kaufman, M., “…this last complete a very happy him, now rests in the Osler Galishoff, S., Savitt, T.L, eds. birthday gift day…. Library, McGill University, Dictionary of American Medical where, as he aspired, “my astral Biography. Westport, CT: from the In the letter Osler refers to a silver self, like the Bishop of St. Praxed35 Greenwood Press; 1984: II, 737.) Colophon snuffbox that he inherited from could peek at the books I have 4. Cushing. H. The Life of Sir William Osler. Oxford: Clarendon Press; Club that so 1925: I, 650-651. pleased him, 5. Pollard, A.W. Preface, In: Osler, W. Incunabula Medica: A Study of the now rests in Earliest Printed Medical Books 1467- the Osler 1480. Oxford: Bibliographic Society, Oxford University Press; Library…“ 1923: v-ix. 6. Cushing, H. The Life of Sir William Osler. Oxford: Clarendon Press; 1925: II, 42-43. 7. Alfred William Pollard (1859- 1944). Distinguished British author, bibliographer, long- serving Secretary of The Bibliographical Society (1893- 1934), and Professor of English Bibliography, Kings College, University of London, 1919- 1932. (Who Was Who. 4th Ed. London: Adam & Charles Black; 1967: IV, 923-924.) 8. Cushing, H. The Life of Sir William Osler. Oxford: Clarendon Press; 1925: II, 344. 9. Osler, W. The Library of Robert Burton. Tr. Bibliog. Soc. (1909- 1911). 1912; xi: 4-7. 10.Cushing, H. The Life of Sir William Osler. Oxford: Clarendon Press; 1925: II, 394-395. 11.(Julius) Victor Scholderer (1880- Figure 3. Presentation of the Colophon Club to Sir William Osler, July 12, 1970). British scholar and 1919. bibliographer; Deputy Keeper, Department of Printed Books, the Rev. Henry Marriot Bannister, loved, and enjoy the delight in British Museum; President, The an eminent musicologist. Rev. which kindred souls still in the Bibliographic Society (1946- Bannister habitually pursued his flesh would handle them.”36 1948); and gold medalist of the studies in the winter at the Vatican Society, 1951. (Who Was Who. ; and during the summer at Bodley, References New York: St. Martin’s Press 1981: VII, 707. leading Osler to quip that he was 12.Osler, W. Incunabula Medica: A 1. Cushing, H. The Life of Sir William the only amphibian Catholic that Study of the Earliest Printed Medical Osler. Oxford: Clarendon Press; he knew — Roman half the year Books 1467-1480. Oxford: 1925: I, 547-548 and Anglican the remainder. Bibliographic Society, Oxford Bannister’s friendship with the 2. Golden, R.L. Sir William Osler’s angina pectoris and other University Press; 1923. Vatican Librarian, Monsignor Achille Ratti (later Pope Pius XI), ·9· • 13. Osler, W. Incunabula Medica: A His Pupils and Co-Workers, 2 Study of the Earliest Printed Medical Volumes, New York: Paul B. Books 1467-1480. Oxford: Hoeber, MCMXIX. Bibliographical Society, Oxford 27.Khayyám, Omar. Rubáiyát of Omar Notes from the University Press; 1923: 1-31. Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of 14.Davison, P., Foot, M., Pearson, D. Persia Translated into English Verse [by Osler Library The Bibliographical Society 1892- Edward Fitzgerald]. London: 1992. London: Bibliographical Bernard Quaritch; 1859. r. Charles Philippe …it is clear Society; 1992: 21-23. 28.Friedrich Max-Müller (1823- Leblond died earlier this that Osler’s 15.Personal communication, Robin 1900). German philologist and D spring at the age of 97. Myers, Honorary Archivist, orientalist; Taylorian Professor of purchase of A distinguished researcher with Bibliographical Society; Modern Languages, Oxford, over 430 scientific articles to his the first Honorary Secretary, the 1854; Corpus Professor of name, Dr. Leblond was active Colophon Club, September 6, Comparative Philology, Oxford, Arabic 2006. 1856; and Curator of the Bodleian until the end, a frequent attendee manuscripts 16.Cushing, H. The Life of Sir William Library. (Who Was Who. 5th Ed. at lectures and events at the Osler. Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Adam & Charles Black; University. A great supporter of for his 1925: II, 274. 1966: I, 483.) the Osler Library, he is seen here library 17.Atkinson, J. Medical Bibliography, A 29.Cushing, H. The Life of Sir William and B. London: John Churchill; Osler. Oxford: Clarendon Press; preceded his 1834: 365. 1925: II, 162. correspondence 18.Roland, C.G. “Dry, dusty, tedious, 30.Sir William Osler, Bart. Brief accursed, hateful, bibliography”: tributes to his personality, with Sa’eed. Osler and British bibliography. In: influence and public service. Johns Tiegen, P.M. Books, Manuscripts, and Hopkins Hosp. Bull. 1919; 30. the History of Medicine. New York: 31.Blogg, M. W. Bibliography of Sir Science History Publications; William Osler, Bart., M.D., F.R.S. 1982: 9-27. Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull.1919; 30: 19.Cushing, H. The Life of Sir William 219-233. Osler. Oxford: Clarendon Press; 32.Wood, C.A., Garrison, F.H., eds. 1925: II, 632. A Physician’s Anthology of English and 20.Jacobi, J. Regimen contra pestilentiam American Poetry. London: Epidimiam. [Paris:] Anthoine Humphrey Milford, Oxford Denidel; [c. 1498]. University Press; 1920. 21.Osler, W. Bibliotheca Osleriana. “Dedicated to the Memory of Sir Oxford: Clarendon Press; 1929: William Osler.” #7446, 642. 33.Cushing, H. The Life of Sir William 22.Alfred W. Pollard to William Osler. Oxofrd: Clarendon Press; Osler, July 12, 1919. Inserted in 1925: II, 661-663. Osler Library B.O. 7446. 34.Rev. Henry Marriott Bannister 23.P.M. Barnard; G.F. Barwick; F.W. (1854-1919. Acting Sub-Librarian Charles Leblond in 1960 Bourdillon; F.W. Cock; E. Marion of the Bodleian Library; Vicar of Cor; Lionel Cust; E.H. Dring; Winterborne Down, Bristol, Arundell Esdaile; Stephen 1884-1887; and musical Gaselee; J.P. Gilson; W.W. Greg, paleographer. (Who Was Who. 4th Arthur L. Humphreys; Chas. T. Ed. London: Adam & Charles attending a Medical Library Jacobi; F.G. Kenyon; R.B. Black; 1967: II, 50.) Christmas party in the Strathcona McKerrow; Falconer Madan; 35.Browning, R. The Bishop orders Building in 1960. Alexander Neale; A.W. Pollard; his tomb at St. Praxed’s Church. G.R. Redgrave; A.W. Reed; Victor In: The Poetical Works of Robert Dr. Patrick Cronin, Dean of Scholderer; H.R. Tedder; Henry Browning. London: Oxford Medicine from 1972 to 1977 died Thomas; Charles Welch; W.R. University Press; 1957:435-436. Wilson; T.J. Wise. 36.Davis, E.Y. Burrowings of a book- in Switzerland last January. Dr. 24.From the collection of the author. worm. In: Golden, R.L., ed. The Cronin visited the Osler Library 25.William Osler to Alfred W. Works of Egerton Yorrick Davis, MD: and kept us up to date with Pollard, July 1919. Inserted in Sir William Osler’s Alter Ego. Osler wonderful letters about his Osler Library B.O. 7446. Library Studies in the History of research activities and family 26.Contributions to Medical and Biological Medicine Number 3. Montreal: news, including the complications Research dedicated to Sir William Osler McGill University; 1999: 93-115. surrounding the completion of his Bart., M.D., F.R.S. In Honour of His degree in science from Princeton Seventieth Birthday July 12, 1919 by University…in the year 2000! In • ·10· 2002 he donated his father A.J. March edition of the Medical associations included the Cronin’s report on first aid in Journal of Australia and in the on- American Osler Society whose Welsh coal mines, published in line version at: http:// president this year was Dalhousie 1927. This report, found among www.mja.com. The title of the University’s former Dean of some forgotten family papers, article is, “Everyone is Entitled to Medicine, and keen medical formed the basis of A.J. Cronin’s a Good Doctor”. The article historian, Dr. Jock Murray, the novel The Stars Look Down, later discusses professionalism, the American Association of the made into a highly successful film. Bristol effect and education History of Medicine, the among other topics, and the Archivists and Librarians in the abstract’s final sentence states, History of the Health Sciences Johnson Sketchbooks Found “The advantages for patients are and the Medical Museum self-evident, but the trust- Association. Along with orga- In issue number 104, we lamented worthiness, influence and good nized tours, many researchers the disappearance of Rev. Arthur name of individual doctors and chose this occasion to consult our J. Johnson’s sketchbooks, the medical profession collec- collections and we were delighted following the closing of the tively would be enhanced if by their enthusiasm for our work and resources.

Patrick Cronin (middle) at convocation with Gertrude Kalz and Francis American Osler Society members visiting the Osler Room. McNaughton, May 1974 (Photo by Ralf Emery reproduced here though efforts to reach Mr. Emery were unsuccessful).

Canadian Museum of Health and together they were able to show Medicine. It is a great pleasure to that the house of medicine is report that they have been found being maintained in good order.” and are now located in the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology. History of Medicine Conferences in Montreal

Sir Donald Irvine During the fist week of May, four conferences took place in Those of you who were unable to Montreal. Although not hosted at Jock Murray, attend Sir Donald Irvine’s McGill, many of us served on the inspiring talk at last year’s Osler local arrangements committee President Lecture, are now able to read it and the Osler Library welcomed of the AOS either in hard copy in the 5th of visitors throughout the week. The 2006-2007. ·11· •

Charles Bryan, Secretary-Treasurer of the AOS and McGovern Award …many Lecturer Abraham Verghese. may be ordered from our web site Dafydd Williams researchers at http://www.mcgill.ca/osler- chose this library/about/introduction/sales/. occasion to consult our The Osler Library in Outer Space collections and we were The Osler Library sometimes receives bizarre requests. This delighted by one, however, from McGill’s their University Relations Office, enthusiasm surpassed them all. Dr. Dafydd Williams, Med. ’83, will be acting for our work as Mission Specialist for STS-118 Editorial Committee for the Newsletter: on the 22nd assembly mission of and Steve Greenberg and Jim Young Faith Wallis, Editor; Pamela Miller, examining the Willis exhibit. the International Space Station. resources… Dr. Williams, who has already History of Medicine Librarian and performed 3 spacewalks, wanted Assistant Editor; Lily Szczygiel, Osler Library Studies in the something small from the Osler Editorial Assistant. History of Medicine Library to take with him on his Address: Osler Library of the History mission, scheduled for June 28th. of Medicine, McGill University, Dr. Richard Golden has published Fortunately for all of us, the Osler McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, The Transatlantic Voice, Number 10 Niche postcard based on a 3655 Promenade Sir-William-Osler, in our Osler Library Studies in the photograph taken by Karen Montréal, Québec, Canada, History of Medicine, a Coshof in 1976, fit the request H3G 1Y6. painstaking reconstruction of a perfectly. Dr. Williams’ affection manuscript that Osler worked on for the Osler Library stems from Tel: (514) 398-4475 ext. 09873 for many years, but never his time spent here as a student, Fax: (514) 398-5747 published. The organized studying in the Osler Room. E-mail: [email protected] appearance of the publication URL: http://www.mcgill.ca/osler- hides the fiendish disorder by Osler Day library/ means of which this manuscript has defied the most dedicated of November 7, 2007 is our next Legal Deposit 1/2007 Oslerians, save Dr. Golden. The Osler Day. Our speaker is Dr. Rita ISSN 0085-4557 67 page book sells for $20 for our Charon, an expert in narrative Legal Deposit 1/2007 Friends ($25 regular price) and medicine. ISSN 1712-7955 Graphic Design by David Morin 514-844-3237 • ·12·