摘要：In 1946, when I was in Texas preparing one of my innumerable articles on Sir William Osler, a physician friend of mine wrote to me from Beverly Hills, California: "So you are writing on Osler ... There is one bit of advice I might offer and that is, get it done before the Osler cult dies out. Just last week one of my friends asked a class of medical students, 'Who was Osler?' and one timidly raised his hand and said, 'Wasn't he a great surgeon?' "
