Harvey Cushing won the Pulitzer Prize in 1926 for his intriguing profile of the legendary Sir William Osler. From a childhood in a remote Canadian prairie town to Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, Osler's life was marked as much by warmth and humanism as intellectual brilliance. Beloved by students and colleagues alike, Osler instituted the bedside method of teaching, inducting his students as "clinical clerks" whose education - revolutionary at the time - was based on studying the patient. Cushing's portrait of Osler is both reveting and comprehensive. The book is a facsimile of the first edition of 1925.
