THE ·OSLER·LI BRARY·NEWSLE TTER· NUMBER 92 · 2000 Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal (Québec)

• IN THIS ISSUE THE SEED AND THE SOIL Our celebration of the Osler he text of this homily is from of Jesus and his disciples. Here, in by Sesquicentennial is drawing to a close the Gospel of Matthew, what would become known as The Rev. David chapter 13, verses 1-9 and 18-23: Tecumseth, agriculture was new, the on an intimate and domestic note. T land needed to be cleared. In first Brinton Priest Amidst the official fanfare and the The same day went Jesus out of the house, century Palestine the soil had already in Charge, The meetings of international associa- and sat by the sea side. And great multitudes been yielding crops for hundreds of Parish of tions, there were other celebrations were gathered together unto him, so that he years. But when they did clear the went into a ship, and sat; and the whole land here, the methods of planting Tecumseth of a family nature, culminating in a multitude sat on the shore. And he spake many were much more efficient. Whereas Diocese of special reunion and service in the things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, in Palestine it was the practice to Toronto very Anglican parish at Bond Head, a sower went forth to sow: and when he sowed, broadcast the seed and more or less Ontario, where Osler was born, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls see what happened, here much more baptized, and spent the first years of came and devoured them up. Some fell upon careful preparation was involved so stony places, where they had not much earth: that sowing would be the last stage his life. and forthwith they sprung up, because they of planting, not the first as in Jesus’ The reunion brought together had no deepness of earth. And when the sun day. And so the fields bore more fruit several generations of the Osler was up, they were scorched; and because they and bore it more reliably in family, as well as representatives of had no root, they withered away. And some Featherstone’s day than in Jesus’, McGill University and the Osler fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, although just as much, if not more, and choked them. But others fell onto good hard work went into making it so. Library, and admirers of Osler. Many ground, and brought forth fruit, some an The cultivation of spiritual fields who attended that celebration hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. was very different for Featherstone remarked on the moving sermon Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.... Hear and Ellen, too. Jesus and his disciples preached at the service in St. John’s ye therefore the parable of the sower. When were a minority band of radicals, any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and Church by the rector, the Reverend understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked Fen and Eve David Brinton. Father Brinton has one, and catcheth away that which was sown Osler Hampson kindly agreed to allow us to print his in his heart. This is he which received seed homily in this issue of the Newsletter. by the way side. But he that received seed outside St. Continuing the theme of family into stony places, the same is he that heareth John’s the word, and anon with joy receiveth it. Yet connections and memories, Pamela hath he not root in himself, but endureth for Miller, acting History of Medicine a while: for when tribulation or persecution Librarian, explores a new acquisition ariseth because of the word, by and by he is for the Library’s archives: Marjorie offended. He also that receiveth seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and Howard Futcher’s family photograph the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of album. The Futchers are one of the riches, choke the word, and he becometh many clans that made up William unfruitful. But he that receiveth seed into the Osler’s “extended family” of personal good ground is he that heareth the word, and and professional connections, and the understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some pictures are an extraordinarily sixty, some thirty. evocative record of the world – and people – Osler knew. When Featherstone Lake Osler and his wife Ellen arrived in these parts as missionaries in the 1830s things • were very different from the Palestine

·1· • challenging the religious status quo makes at the end of today’s gospel: Christ’s Nativity” read to him and his of their day. Featherstone represented “the seed that fell in good soil is the funeral was conducted with all the the established church in the new one who hears the word and solemnity that Christ Church Oxford land, Queen and Prayer Book, and understands it, bearing fruit, and could muster. And so in this respect despite the astonishing hardships yielding an hundredfold or sixty or we should not leap to conclusions they endured in breaking new ground thirty” – by which he means an about the nature of his religious faith enormous amount, given that the at the end of his life, as we should average Palestinian yield would only not about anyone’s. Memorial have been about sevenfold. The question his life raises is a window in Into this rich yield of good things, mysterious one. Why do some Trinity physical and spiritual, was born believe and others not? Why do some Anglican William Osler. He was baptized in lives seem so fruitful in every way and Trinity Church, then a chapel of ease others do not? What constitutes Church. “He his father had erected next to the fruitfulness? These are questions that laid his hands parsonage just west of Bond Head. often arose in the ministry of Jesus on every one of (The chapel was used among other and in the life of the early Jewish things as a place of prayer for the church. The parable of the seeds and them and healed young men Featherstone was training soils, transmitted to us by the gospel them. To the to help him in his expanding ministry, of Matthew, is one response to those Glory of God Bishop Strachan having been questions. unhelpful in this as in so many other The immediate context of the and in Memory matters, in Featherstone’s view). We parable is one of enormous success. of Sir William can assume that Willie was clearly a Huge crowds are flocking to hear the Osler M.D. Jacob in his father’s eyes. We hear in latest star preacher in Galilee. But today’s Old Testament section the Jesus issues a cryptic warning: a great this window beginning of the story of Jacob and deal of seed is sown, but only some was presented Esau, Esau being the brother who of it will bear fruit that can survive by the Simcoe cared little for his birthright and the perils of such broadcasting. Most County squandered it for a good dinner. But of the seed will fall on hard or rocky Willie, like several of his brothers, ground or among thorns. It will be Medical physically and spiritually, would grow up to be a faithful heir plucked away by birds before it can Association Featherstone and Ellen were to his parents’ rich yield, although not germinate, or it will sprout quickly 1930.” welcomed by the people as not only quite in ways they could have but with shallow roots that are soon religious, but social leaders. By the anticipated. scorched by the sun, or it will be time they left for Dundas they were History records these successes as choked by foreign growth. But some local potentates. While Jesus’ largely worldly ones, Willie’s in of the seed will fall on good soil and disciples often wondered why it was medicine, the others in law and the yield of that seed will surprise and that their preaching and healing politics and business. Indeed one astonish. seemed to bear so little fruit (an issue biographer indicates an ambiguity in The interpretation of the parable Jesus addresses in the parable of the Willie about his spiritual legacy. At goes on to tell us that our relationship Trinity School, then in Weston, he to God is like this method of came under the influence of Fr. planting. It can be easily Eve Osler Johnson, an Anglo-Catholic with an compromised – sometimes by outside Hampson, who interest in biology. For a time Willie forces so mysterious we can only call organized the seemed interested in a vocation to the them “evil” – but also by our response priesthood. (One can only imagine to both our successes and our failures reception at the conversations between Willie the in life, our joys and our sorrows. They Osler Hall at budding Anglo-Catholic and his have the potential to destroy the seed Trinity resolutely low-church father). At of faith planted in our hearts, if it McGill Willie was known to attend remains untended, unwatered, Anglican the parish of St. John the Evangelist, unloved. This story has provided Church, talking then, as now a bastion of Anglo- great inspiration over the centuries to Dr. Reginald Catholicism. But after that it is less for those seeking a deep spirituality. clear what his spiritual beliefs were. The danger is that it can fuel pride Fitz. He lived through a period when and intolerance, encouraging us to seed and soils in today’s gospel), the Darwin and Freud seemed to seal the become spiritual soil analysts, Oslers left a countryside dotted with emerging division between religion classifying the inner lives of other the churches and Sunday schools and science, sacred and secular. He people according to our strict sense they had founded from scratch. The could not help but be influenced by of what constitutes health or disease. church and the land in Tecumseth in this. And yet on Christmas Eve, as It would be closer to the spirit of the late 1850s must have seemed like he lay dying in Oxford, he had Jesus’ overall teaching to accept that a fulfillment of the prophecy Jesus Milton’s “Ode on the Morning of we all have some hard clay, some • ·2· rocky ground and some weeds in our of waiting in the darkness of grief and experiences and fun and untold spiritual gardens – and that we all disappointment must have seemed an luxuries that I had!” 1 Two photograph have some good arable soil as well. eternity of hopelessness for the tiny albums, containing about 700 Another danger of the parable is that band who had remained faithful. But photographs, recently presented to it can encourage an introverted, like the few seeds that fell in good the Osler Library by her son Dr. private piety: all our effort is spent in soil, the Easter yield was Palmer Howard Futcher of Baltimore, our own garden. But again, the unimaginably abundant. Eighteen teaching and example of Jesus would hundred years later it brought seem to call for us to be attentive to Featherstone and Ellen to the mission other peoples’ gardens: where else is fields of and perhaps the seed sprouting and sinking deep we can say, therefore, that it brought roots? Where is there courage, where Willie to the world of medicine. is there hope, where is there a sense As he lay dying, broken perhaps of evil being confronted and battled? by the horror of the Great War and There we will find evidence of the the loss of his only child as much as seed of God’s grace, spread by the deadly organisms which he everywhere, coming to fruition. Its had spent a lifetime trying to locale may surprise us. Our allies in eradicate, Sir William Osler listened this spiritual gardening may be to the words of Milton hymning the unfamiliar and initially undesirable, first coming of Jesus of Nazareth. but they are integral to the working Consciously or not, he was out of the Great Sower’s plan. participating in the mysteriously By most scales, the yield of the fruitful suffering of the Son of God. Oslers of Tecumseth was enormous What his deepest convictions were – and not always in ways they would about the subject of Milton’s hymn have predicted or perhaps even remain a mystery, as do every desired. The sensible English religion person’s. What we do know is that in prove her point. There are no 1. G.M.H., of Featherstone has born visible fruit its generosity and breadth, its photographs of the balls, but from the Dr. Colin in the erection of parishes throughout openness and curiosity, William photographs it is easy to tell that this diocese. Ellen’s more fervent Osler’s astonishing life produced a Marjorie Howard enjoyed herself and Russel, spirituality played a key role in this, rich yield, one that reflects and was a member of an élite society. Mrs. Osler, but she agonized over the piety, or contributes to the harvest of healing The Kodak camera, (invented in Dr. Osler, lack of it, in some of her children, her and wholeness Christ initiated, one 1888 2 ) hand held and quick aiming, “Tecumseth cabbages”, while that continues to bear fruit and to had only recently replaced heavy, Oxford, remaining intensely loyal and proud inspire. cumbersome earlier apparatus. By at June 1905 of their accomplishments. And what least 1895, Marjorie owned a of Willie in particular? The strange camera.3 A photograph taken at the mix of soils in Tecumseth and Dundas Oslers’ at No. 13, Norham Gardens, produced a rich yield in him. His MARJORIE shows that by 1905, Marjorie had accomplishments as a scientist and acquired a more sophisticated folding educator cause us to gather here HOWARD’S PHOTO- camera. This camera had an adjusting today. His diagnostic methodology lens to allow filming at a distance.4 promoted a patient-centred, holistic GRAPH ALBUMS: One image of the Oslers, Marjorie approach to disease. His library, now and Dr. Colin Russel shows that the at McGill, indicates a man of broad, MORE THAN MEETS new camera may have been a little deep humanist interests, a man more complicated to manage. Dr. committed to looking for productive THE EYE Osler is looking quizzically at the gardens far beyond his own. The photographer, Grace Osler has esteem in which he continues to be by Pamela Miller retreated to a book, and Marjorie and held suggests that his inner life was Dr. Russel are clearly trying to deep and solid but otherwise, like n 1946, Gwendolen Marjorie comprehend their instruction every human heart, it remains a Howard Futcher wrote to her son manuals. (fig.1) mystery. I that, “You young people who The Osler Library has numerous Jesus preached to enormous have grown up during Depression albums on a variety of subjects. crowds the day he told them the and War have no idea what Albums, however, are more than a parable of the seeds and soils. He wonderful, elaborate and gay parties static record. Descended from print knew that only some would remain this old gal went to when she was albums, commonplace books, and faithful in the long term. At the end young. Even dear old , autograph albums, photograph of his ministry, there were only a ‘when I was young’ had real balls, in albums are at once a collection of handful who stayed behind to witness real Ballrooms, and champagne treasured items, a record of events, the grisly conclusion. The future flowed too. How often I wish that and a means of sharing a story with looked bleak indeed. The three days you might all have had some of the friends and relatives. 5 This story can ·3· be passed down through the what she wanted us to see. But there the Osler Library Newsletter (no. 65, generations, (and even to an is more to the albums. Some of her Oct. 1990) describes Marjorie’s life archive6 ), if the compiler has subjects are so well known that briefly and her close friendship with identified the subjects, which additional biographical material can the Oslers over the years. In 1888 Dr. Marjorie Howard Futcher has done. be found in Canadian Men and Women Jared Howard, Marjorie’s half- We see what she saw and, of course, of the Time ( H.J. Morgan, 1912), Who’s brother, married Maggie Smith, Lord Strathcona’s only child. The marriage brought Strathcona closer to the Oslers and to McGill as Jared was Osler’s classmate, friend and the son of his favourite professor. The albums are in chronological order but both cover the same time period, c. 1885-1907. Most of the photographs record family groups at the summer homes where privileged migrated to escape urban heat and disease. White clothes, sports and the open air predominate in the photographs. With her good 2. Phyllis looks, friendly nature and Strathcona Porteous, Île connection, Marjorie was a welcome guest. A few of the pictures were d’Orléans,1901 clearly taken by friends and given to 3. Militia camp at St. Joseph, 1901 her as keepsakes. The photographs of Marjorie’s 4. Staff at No.1 Franklin St., Canadian summer holidays begin around 1900 at Métis on the Lower Rebecca, Moses, Lillah, Dr. Osler, St. Lawrence and continue until Samuel, Josepha, 1908. Throughout the album, Baltimore, May 1905 whether lying on the beach, playing golf or sailing, female informal wear consists of high necked, long sleeved Who in Canada, and the Dictionary of blouses and long skirts (but there is Canadian Biography. What is at least one bathing beauty, bare from particularly important about these the elbows and knees down!) (fig.2) two albums for the Osler Library, is The men for the most part wear that Marjorie was practically a jackets and ties. In 1901, we become member of William and Grace Osler’s aware that Canada is involved in the family. There are roughly thirty-one South African War, with the photo photographs of the Oslers. Aside of a huge bonfire at Métis, thanks to from glimpses of her life, the albums the Savage family. It shows a dummy reinforce the relationship between of Paul Kruger, President of the South medicine and power. The albums give African Republic, ready to be burned us rare glimpses of some of the most in effigy. And there is a photograph powerful men in Canada in often very of an English friend, Aley Cathell in informal settings. uniform, prepared to embark from The third child of Dr. Robert Plymouth on the “Roslyn Castle” for Palmer Howard, Dean of McGill’s the war in South Africa. Several Medical Faculty from 1883 to 1889, pictures of the militia training camp and his second wife Emily Severs at St. Joseph include one of her friend Howard, Marjorie and her older Geoffrey Porteous taken from an brother Campbell and sister Muriel unusual angle. (fig.3) were orphaned in 1892 when The album is invaluable for its Marjorie was 10 years old. Because hitherto unpublished pictures of the of his friendship and admiration for Osler family. We have photos of life their father, William (and Grace) in Baltimore including a photo of Osler kept watch over the younger Osler posing with the domestic staff Howards, and Marjorie’s album of No. 1 West Franklin St. (fig.4) The 5. Dr. John McCrae, [unknown doctor], Dr. Osler, records her visits to the Oslers at pictures show the family on holiday Mrs. Osler, Dr. Thomas McCrae, Revere, Baltimore, Oxford, and Murray Bay. at Murray Bay in 1904. In the centre Miss Nicholls (behind), Murray Bay, 1904 Palmer Howard Futcher’s article in of the page stands William Osler, in ·4· a three-piece suit, watch and chain, pets, in the gardens of Colonsay House. wife and family. He acted as hands in his pockets, legs apart. Marjorie records a trip to the beach, Chairman of the Strathcona Trust, a Underneath it Marjorie has written, but no one appears to have gone into fund set up by Lord Strathcona to “The Regius Professor of Medicine.” the water. She has a good eye for promote military preparedness While on this holiday, Osler was scenery and some of the photos of among Canadian youth.8 Gladys writing to his friends telling them that Glencoe are dramatic. (figs. 8,9,10) Drury later married Max Aitken, Lord

6. Revere Osler, Oxford, 1905 7. Back row: Edith (Howard) 8. Lord Strathcona and Maggie [2 unidentified], Middle row: Lady Howard, Glencoe, September 1905 Strathcona, [1 unidentified] Front row: Harry, Jared, Arthur Knebworth, 1905 he had just accepted the position in Marjorie records several visits to Oxford. There are several views of Dr. Francis Shepherd’s family at the log cabin at Lac Gravelle where Como, on the Lake of Two they spent some time. A group Mountains west of Montreal. Osler picture includes John and Tom visited Como whenever he could and, McCrae, the Oslers, and Revere in a apart from the Oslers, the Shepherd typical rascally pose (outnumbered family is the only doctor’s family by the adults) sitting on the railing. which Marjorie frequents. Oak (fig.5) Marjorie’s affection for Revere Cottage was the summer home of is clear. The family’s trip to Beaufort Cecil, (later the wife of Percy Nobbs, 9. New House and view, Glencoe, 1905 Castle in 1905 is recorded with the Director of McGill’s School of usual antics of Revere. Revere appears Architecture and designer of the frequently, clowning on his bicycle, Osler Library), Ernest and Dorothy (fig.6) in the company of his Shepherd. The album records family governesses and looking angelic with members sailing and canoeing on the his fond but skeptical parents. In lake, campfires, pets and picnics at 1905 the Oslers are photographed in Oka bank across the lake. Easter and the garden at Lord Strathcona’s home Dominion Day are marked with in Colonsay. photos of family gatherings. Marjorie records visits to Lord Another family, the Drury family Strathcona’s homes at Knebworth in in Kingston appears in the album Hertfordshire and Glencoe in the mostly on sailing expeditions on Lake north of Scotland, as well. Each of Ontario. Their father, Lt. Col. the three homes possesses its formal Charles William Drury, had a garden. At Knebworth, one distinguished military career and was photograph portrays a rare picture of known as the “father of modern the reclusive Lady Strathcona. (fig.7) artillery training in Canada”.7 He had 10. Pass of Glencoe from Queen’s study, 1905 The five Howard children are served in the South African War photographed together with their (1899-1902) and is pictured with his ·5· Beaverbrook. Victor Drury is The Porteous family had been family summered at Boisbriant, their recorded as Marjorie’s suitor. (fig.11) merchants and bankers since the 300-acre estate in Senneville. Summer scenes include the Royal arrival of the British in Canada. C.E.L. Marjorie or “Daw” later married Dr. Canadian Yacht Club regatta in 1905 Porteous of the , his John Todd, pathologist and Professor in which the Drury’s sailboat the wife Frances Eliza Drury, and their of Parasitology at McGill. Among the “Verona” participated. eleven children (cousins of the Drury snapshots is a photograph of Lady

11. G.M.H., Ara Porteous (?), Phyllis Porteous, H.A.K.D., Victor Drury 12. The Trinity (Phyllis Porteous, G.M.H., Alice Sutherland), Île d’Orléans, 1905

13. Evelyn & family above) occupied a “regency Minto, wife of the Governor General Francis cottage”, Les Grosardières, in the of Canada and Eileen, their daughter. village of Ste. Pétronille on the Île (fig.16) Edward Clouston managed Porteous, d’Orléans. This is the home of Phyllis their finances during their stay in Île d’Orléans Porteous, Marjorie’s lively and Canada. There is also a photo of 1901 beautiful friend. Phyllis later married Vincent Meredith and his wife Paul Sise, (included in the album) son playing golf with Edward Clouston of Charles Sise, founder of the Bell in 1901. A photo taken from the Telephone Company of Canada. In water shows the remains of Fort 1912, Paul Sise was manager of Senneville, situated on the Clouston Northern Electric and Manufacturing property. After Clouston’s death in Company and a Governor of 1911, Vincent Meredith became Montreal’s Western Hospital.9 General Manager and later President Marjorie visited the Porteous family of the Bank of Montreal. Clouston almost every summer along with her was knighted in 1908 and Meredith brother and sister. Many pictures are in 1916. Clouston represented posed on the verandah steps and in Strathcona’s financial and 14. Grande the spectacular gardens. (figs.12, 13) philanthropic interests after Expeditions, (fig.14) birthday parties, Strathcona became High Métis Falls, a game of leapfrog, Phyllis and Commissioner in London in 1898.10 August 1901 Marjorie rowing leave an impression William Osler had known of constant activity, understandable Clouston and Meredith since his in a family of eleven children. In the early days at McGill University when summer of 1902 while visiting Little he had roomed with A.A. Browne,11 Métis, with Phyllis, she takes a who later held the Chair of picture of Dr. Murray and Mayor Midwifery and Diseases of Infants at Fergusson addressing the crowd on McGill. Browne had left the Bank of Coronation Day. Montreal for medical studies and Several pages of photographs retained the friendship of Clouston testify to the close friendship and Meredith, introducing them to between Marjorie and the Clouston Osler. Osler’s brother, E.B. Osler, sisters, Osla and Marjorie. (fig.15) provided another contact with Edward Clouston, General Manager Canadian finance. Harvey Cushing of the Bank of Montreal and his describes how this happened. ·6· During these years in Montreal chance Lewis Reford. (Lewis Reford married 7 “Major-General Charles William Drury, C.B.” brought him [Osler] into frequent contact the daughter of Duncan McIntyre in Canadian Defence Quarterly, vol. 5, 1927-28, with a group of men who were enriching p.39-40. mentioned in the quotation from 8 Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Toronto, Vol. Canada and incidentally themselves by Cushing.) Marjorie Futcher and her XIV, 1911-1920, Smith, Donald Alexander, p. transactions concerned with the opening up friends Marjorie Clouston and Peggy 945 of the great West. He often recalled in later Angus14 married doctors. Doctors, in 9 H.J. Morgan, Canadian Men and Women of the

15. Mr. Clouston, G.M.H. [shading him with his hat], Osla Clouston 16. Osla Clouston, Mr. Clouston, Lady Minto, Lady Eileen, Mrs. Clouston & Capt…. Boisbriant 1903 years how at this time his brother, ‘E.B.’, then turn, benefited from the prestige and chairman of the Temiskaming or some other philanthropy of Canada’s new 17. Hockey, railway, used to come down to Montreal financial élite. Marjorie Howard’s January 1901 nearly every week, and how on his return from album is full of fun (fig.17) and the college or hospital he would find a note memorable events. But, in the process from Donald A.Smith (afterwards Lord of assembling photos of friends to Strathcona), saying: ‘at 7.00 as your brother remind her of special happenings in is down.’ R.B. Angus, McIntyre, George her young life, she provides us with Stephen, and others would be likely to be there visual proof of the ties between status, also. 12 money and medicine.

Years later, George Stephen, later Notes Lord Mount Stephen, with his 1 Notes on Gwendolen Marjorie Howard Futcher cousin, Lord Strathcona, provided (1882-1969) and her Howard and Severs Forebears the funds to establish the Royal and Relatives and the William Oslers, unpublished 13 work by Palmer Howard Futcher, M.D., Victoria Hospital. R.B. Angus Baltimore, 1998, p.23, Marjorie Howard served as Chairman of the Board of Futcher to Palmer Howard Futcher, 21 July, the Royal Victoria Hospital from 1946. Time, Toronto, 1912, p. 1028. 1893 to 1910, followed by Edward 2 You Press the Button – We Do the Rest, the Birth of 10 Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Toronto, Vol. Clouston from 1910 until his death a Snapshot Photography, ed. Colin Ford & Karl XIV, 1911-1920, Clouston, Edward Seaborne, Steinorth, London, 1988, p. 11. p. 219 year later. Sir Vincent Meredith 3 By the end of 1898, the British Journal of 11 Osler Library Archives, Cushing Fonds, chaired the board from 1913 to 1929. Photography estimated that there were over CUS 417/114.133, Osler to C.F. Martin, 18 At a time when medicine was 1,500,000 roll film cameras in use worldwide. Dec., 1912. professionalizing and science seemed The Snapshot Photograph, the Rise of Popular 12 Harvey Cushing, The Life of Sir William Osler, to provide more and more answers Photography, 1888-1939, Brian Coe and Paul Oxford, 1925, vol. 1, p. 124. Gates, London, 1977, p. 21 13 The idea of a hospital out of the centre of to humanity’s problems, doctors were 4 Ibid. p. 26. Montreal, as a monument to its benefactors, is seen by the wealthy (especially the 5 Martha Langford, Suspended Conversations: attributed to Dr. Robert Palmer Howard. See recently wealthy) as desirable people private photographic albums in the public collection of Royal Victoria Hospital, 1887-1947, D. Sclater with whom to associate, whether the McCord Museum of Canadian History, McGill Lewis, Montreal, 1969, p.5. through marriage or by supporting University Ph.D. Thesis, 1997, p.2 14 R.B. Angus and his daughter Peggy, appear 6 The albums are as fragile as they are in the album at “Pine Bluff” at Senneville. In the medical profession for a son. important, and will need conservation. A first 1912, Peggy married C.F. Martin who served Marjorie’s brother Campbell and step will be to record the contents digitally to as Dean of Medicine at McGill from 1923 to some of her friends became doctors, allow access to the images, and reproduction, 1936. for example Ernest Shepherd and without the necessity of handling the originals. ·7· • OSLER LIBRARY NOTES

A Splendid Gift David Crawford Dr. Abraham Fuks, officiated at the from Dr. John McGovern Honoured by CHLA ceremony which took place on the 28th of October, 1999. We are delighted to report that Dr. We wish to congratulate David John McGovern, an Oslerian of long Crawford, Health Sciences Librarian, In Memoriam standing and a very generous who has been made an Honorary Life benefactor of the Osler Library, has Member of the Canadian Health We regret to report the death last donated $350,000 U.S. toward Libraries Association, l’Association August of Susan Gillespie who improving the environmental des Bibliothèques de Santé du worked at the Osler Library as Head conditions for rare book storage in Canada. David chaired the of Cataloguing for several years in the the Osler Library. The University has committee which led to the late 1960s and early 1970s. After her engaged the well-known Montreal formation of the association in 1976 departure, she remained a dedicated Architect Julia Gersovitz to plan the and served as its President for two Friend of the Library. renovations. We are looking forward terms. The CHLA/ABSC is dedicated eagerly to improving the care we give to improving communication, Errata

our books and will be reporting to including sharing of resources, readers of the Newsletter on the among health libraries in Canada, In issue no. 91, 1999, on p. 12, Dr. renovations as they unfold. and to serving as a forum of Theodore L. Sourkes’ name was discussion for issues relating to health omitted from the Patrons’ category. A New Volume in the Osler Library libraries. As a professional We apologize to Dr. Sourkes for this

Studies in the History of Medicine organization, it represents its error. interests in discussions at the The members of the Publications provincial and federal level. Committee are pleased to announce the appearance of Number 3 in this Annmarie Adams series, The Works of Egerton Yorrick Davis, Honoured by the Hannah Institute M.D.-Sir William Osler’s Alter Ego. Dr. Richard Golden has edited and McGill Architecture Professor Editorial Committee meticulously annotated all of the Annmarie Adams’ innovative Faith Wallis, Editor; Pamela Miller, writings, some hitherto unpublished, publication Architecture in the Family Acting Head of the Osler Library and of this fabulous fictitious surgeon Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870- Assistant Editor; Wayne LeBel, Assistant created by Dr. Osler. We are grateful 1900, published by McGill-Queen’s History of Medicine Librarian and to the American Osler Society for Press, was recently awarded the Jason Assistant Editor; Lily Szczygiel, Editorial funding this publication. Copies may S. Hannah Medal, awarded annually Assistant. be ordered from the Library for $25, for an important Canadian or $20 for Friends of the Osler publication in the history of medicine Graphic Design: David Morin Library. Canadian Friends should by Associated Medical Services remit in Canadian currency (the price (Hannah Institute of the History of The initial letter on page 1 is reproduced from includes GST), and American and Medicine). Carol Belanger Grafton Treasury of Art Nouveau international Friends in U.S. Design & Ornement, plate 437 Dover Publications, currency. The price also includes 1980. postage. Sorry, no credit cards are Address Change accepted. Address In honour of the 150th anniversary Dr. Richard Cruess, of the birth of Sir William Osler, the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, Officer and President upper section of Drummond St. McGill University, where the McIntyre Medical Building McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, We are happy to announce that Dr. and the Osler Library are located, has 3655 Promenade Sir William Osler, Richard Cruess has been promoted been renamed Promenade Sir Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3G 1Y6. from Member to Officer of the Order William Osler. From now on the Tel: (514) 398-4475 ext. 09873 of Canada. Dr. Cruess has agreed to Library’s address will be 3655 Fax: (514) 398-5747 act as President of the Friends of the Promenade Sir William Osler. His E-mail: [email protected] Osler Library. He has been an Worship Pierre Bourque, Mayor of URL: http://www.health.library.mcgill.ca/ enthusiastic and generous supporter Montreal, the Chancellor of McGill osler/welcome.htm of the Osler Library for many years, University, Mr. Richard Pound and and we look forward to working with the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Legal Deposit 1/2000 him. ISSN 0085-4557 • ·8·