文档介绍：THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN MEDICINE
THE EVOLUTION OF
MODERN MEDICINE
A SERIES OF LECTURES DELIVERED AT YALE
UNIVERSITY ON THE SILLIMAN FOUNDATION IN APRIL, 1913
by WILLIAM OSLER
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THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN MEDICINE
THE SILLIMAN FOUNDATION
IN the year 1883 a legacy of eighty thousand dollars was left to the
President and Fellows of Yale College in the city of New Haven, to be
held in trust, as a gift from her children, in memory of their beloved and
honored mother, Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman.
On this foundation Yale College was requested and directed to
establish an annual course of lectures designed to illustrate the presence
and providence, the wisdom and goodness of God, as manifested in the
natural and moral world. These were to be designated as the Mrs. Hepsa
Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures. It was the belief of the testator that any
orderly presentation of the facts of nature or history contributed to the end
of this foundation more effectively than any attempt to emphasize the
elements of doctrine or of creed; and he therefore provided that lectures on
dogmatic or polemical theology should be excluded from the scope of this
foundation, and that the subjects should be selected rather from the
domains of natural science and history, giving special prominence to
astronomy, chemistry, geology and anatomy.
It was further directed that each annual course should be made the
basis of a volume to form part of a series constituting a memorial to Mrs.
Silliman. The memorial fund came into the possession of the Corporation
of Yale University in the year 1901; and the present volume constitutes the
tenth of the series of memorial lectures.
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THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN MEDICINE
PREFACE
THE manuscript of Sir William Osler's lectures on the "Evolution of
Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in April, 1913, on the
Silliman Foundation, was immediately turned in to the Yale University
Press for publication. Duly set in type, proofs i