Search Results: Aequanimitas by William, Sir Osler

MP3 Audio CD. Aequanimitas (in Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 030 ) TO many the frost of custom has made even these imposing annual ceremonies cold and lifeless. To you, at least of those present, they should have the solemnity of an ordinance—called as you are this day to a high dignity and to so weighty an office and charge. You have chosen your Genius, have passed beneath the Throne of Necessity, and with the voices of the fatal sisters still in your ears, will soon enter the plain of Forgetfulness and drink of the waters of its river. Ere you are driven all manner of ways, like the souls in the tale of Er the Pamphylian, it is my duty to say a few words of encouragement and to bid you, in the name of the Faculty, God-speed on your journey. I could have the heart to spare you, poor, careworn survivors of a hard struggle, so "lean and pale and leaden-eyed with study;" and my tender mercy constrains me to consider but two of the score of elements which may make or mar your… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Aequanimitas (in Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 030 ) TO many the frost of custom has made even these imposing annual ceremonies cold and lifeless. To you, at least of those present, they should have the solemnity of an ordinance—called as you are this day to a high dignity and to so weighty an office and charge. You have chosen your Genius, have passed beneath the Throne of Necessity, and with the voices of the fatal sisters still in your ears, will soon enter the plain of Forgetfulness and drink of the waters of its river. Ere you are driven all manner of ways, like the souls in the tale of Er the Pamphylian, it is my duty to say a few words of encouragement and to bid you, in the name of the Faculty, God-speed on your journey. I could have the heart to spare you, poor, careworn survivors of a hard struggle, so "lean and pale and leaden-eyed with study;" and my tender mercy constrains me to consider but two of the score of elements which may make or mar your… Read More

Philadelphia: Blakiston 1943 (Oct.) Book. Good. Hardcover. Good+, contents very good, faint ring marks & rubbed area front cover, endpapers lightly toned; no dust jacket. 8vo. (x) 451 pp. green cloth. Typed letter from Eli Lilly & Co. congratulating new medical doctor pasted in front end paper with facsimile signature Eli Lilly 0.

New York: P. Blakiston's Son & Co.. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Third Hardcover Edition. McGraw Hill Pub. No copyright date noted. 451 pgs. Medium brown leatherette cover. In very good, clean condition with name written on front endpage. Osler provides a history of medicine along with philosophy, education, and advice to practitioners.

P. Blakiston's Sons & Co., 1/1/1932 12:00:00 AM. hardcover. Good. .

H.K. Lewis and Company Limited, 1946. Reprint . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Biographical note by Sir Walter Langdon-Brown. Bookplate from the previous owner. Reprint, 1946. With a Portrait. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 451 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. There is light foxing around the block of the book and on the early and last pages. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

The Blakiston Division of McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1/1/1969. Hardcover. Very Good. Brown leather. Fine binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

The Blackiston Company. Used - Good. Good condition. 3rd edition, printing of 1944. (medicine, essays)

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.