Title: The Principles and Practice of Medicine
Author: Sir William Osler, M.D. (Revered globally as the "Father of Modern Medicine" and one of the founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital).
Publisher: The Classics of Medicine Library (A Division of Gryphon Editions, Ltd., Birmingham, Alabama).
Publication Date: 1978 (Special Edition Copyright). Note that this is one of the early foundational releases of the series.
Edition Type: A premium, deluxe facsimile reprint of the historic 1892 first edition published by D. Appleton & Company.
Binding & Features:
Full premium black pebbled leather binding with a hubbed spine.
Traditional gold gilt framing lines on the front and back cover, accented with elegant gold stamped fleurs-de-lis on the spine and cover panels.
All edges gilt (brilliant gold page edges) with a blue silk ribbon page marker.
Marbled/moire pattern endsheets.
Condition Notes: Pristine used condition, Gilded Edges are bright and unblemished, minimal shelf wear
Interesting Notes about this title:
When Osler published this book in 1892, it didn't just teach medicine; it single-handedly transformed the entire American medical education system.
Before this textbook, medical students learned primarily by memorizing massive blocks of theoretical text out of lecture halls. Osler believed this was useless. He famously wrote: "He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all."
This textbook was so incredibly clear, practical, and comprehensive that a philanthropist named Frederick T. Gates read it out of personal curiosity. Gates was so deeply moved by Osler's brilliant summary of what medicine could do (and how much more research was desperately needed) that he went directly to John D. Rockefeller and convinced him to establish the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Modern medical research funding exists largely because of the impact of this exact book!
Title: The Principles and Practice of Medicine
Author: Sir William Osler, M.D. (Revered globally as the "Father of Modern Medicine" and one of the founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital).
Publisher: The Classics of Medicine Library (A Division of Gryphon Editions, Ltd., Birmingham, Alabama).
Publication Date: 1978 (Special Edition Copyright). Note that this is one of the early foundational releases of the series.
Edition Type: A premium, deluxe facsimile reprint of the historic 1892 first edition published by D. Appleton & Company.
Binding & Features:
Full premium black pebbled leather binding with a hubbed spine.
Traditional gold gilt framing lines on the front and back cover, accented with elegant gold stamped fleurs-de-lis on the spine and cover panels.
All edges gilt (brilliant gold page edges) with a blue silk ribbon page marker.
Marbled/moire pattern endsheets.
Condition Notes: Pristine used condition, Gilded Edges are bright and unblemished, minimal shelf wear
Interesting Notes about this title:
When Osler published this book in 1892, it didn't just teach medicine; it single-handedly transformed the entire American medical education system.
Before this textbook, medical students learned primarily by memorizing massive blocks of theoretical text out of lecture halls. Osler believed this was useless. He famously wrote: "He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all."
This textbook was so incredibly clear, practical, and comprehensive that a philanthropist named Frederick T. Gates read it out of personal curiosity. Gates was so deeply moved by Osler's brilliant summary of what medicine could do (and how much more research was desperately needed) that he went directly to John D. Rockefeller and convinced him to establish the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Modern medical research funding exists largely because of the impact of this exact book!
