OSLER, William. The Principles And Practice Of Medicine. Designed For The Use Of Practitioners And Students Of Medicine.
New York: D. Appleton, 1892. First edition, first issue. From the library of Dr. C.B. Farrar with his bookplate. Tall thick 8vo., recently rebound in plain green cloth, spine lettering gilt, (xviii), 1079, (6), 8pp.ads dated "November 1891." A fine copy in a very plain cloth binding. "Osler's text-book was the best English work on medicine of its time. He became Regius professor of medicine at Oxford in 1904. Besides being one of the greatest of all clinicians, he was possessed of a fine literary style and extensive knowledge of medical bibliography." Dr. Clarence B. Farrar [1874-1970] "trained under several of the foremost medical scholars of his era beginning with Osler and then at Heidelberg under Kraepelin, Nissl and Alzheimer. Farrar was hand-picked by Prof. Charles Clarke, the University's inaugural head of Psychiatry, to succeed him in both that chair and as the first Director of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital (TPH) opening in 1925. Farrar served in those capacities until 1947, setting the stage for the TPH to continue as the Department's clinical, teaching, research and administrative nexus until succeeded in 1966 by the Clarke Institute." Dr. Farrar also served as the editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry. (TPH: History and Memories of Toronto Psychiatric Hospital by Edward Shorter).

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