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( William Osler)
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919 Age 70) was a Canadian physician. He has been called one of the greatest icons of modern medicine and described as the Father of Modern Medicine (Osler himself thought Avicenna held this honour)[citation needed]. Osler was a physician, clinician, pathologist, teacher, diagnostician, bibliophile, historian, classicist, essayist, conversationalist, organizer, manager and author. Osler was born in Bond Head, Canada West (now Ontario), and raised after 1857 in Dundas, Ontario. His family included his parents, Rev. Featherstone Lake Osler and Ellen Free Picton, and two older brothers; Britton Bath Osler (1839-1901), and Edmund Boyd Osler (1845-1924). As a teenager, his aim was to follow his father into the Anglican ministry and to that end he entered Trinity College, Toronto (now part of University of Toronto) in the autumn of 1867. However, his chief interest proved to be medicine and, forsaking his original intention, he enrolled in the Toronto School of Medicine. This was a proprietary, or privately owned, institution, not to be confused with the Medical Faculty of the University of Toronto, which was then not active as a teaching body. After two years at the Toronto School of Medicine, Osler came to McGill University in Montreal where he obtained his medical degree (MDCM) in 1872.
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