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THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN MEDICINE

A SERIES OF LECTURES DELIVERED AT YALE UNIVERSITY
ON THE SILLIMAN FOUNDATION IN APRIL, 1913

by WILLIAM OSLER

THE SILLIMAN FOUNDATION
IN the year 1883 a legacy of eighty thousand dollars was left to the
President and Fellows of Yale College in the city of New Haven, to be
held in trust, as a gift from her children, in memory of their beloved
and honored mother, Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman.
On this foundation Yale College was requested and directed to
establish an annual course of lectures designed to illustrate the presence
and providence, the wisdom and goodness of God, as manifested in the
natural and moral world. These were to be designated as the Mrs.
Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures. It was the belief of the testator
that any orderly presentation of the facts of nature or history
contributed to the end of this foundation more effectively than any
attempt to emphasize the elements of doctrine or of creed; and he
therefore provided that lectures on dogmatic or polemical theology
should be excluded from the scope of this foundation, and that the
subjects should be selected rather from the domains of natural science
and history, giving special prominence to astronomy, chemistry,
geology and anatomy.
It was further directed that each annual course should be made the basis
of a volume to form part of a series constituting a memorial to Mrs.
Silliman. The memorial fund came into the possession of the
Corporation of Yale University in the year 1901; and the present
volume constitutes the tenth of the series of memorial lectures.
CONTENTS


Chapter II
. Greek Medicine


Chapter III
. Mediaeval Medicine

Chapter IV
. The Renaissance and the Rise of Anatomy and Physiology


Chapter V
. The Rise and Development of Modern Medicine


Chapter VI
. The Rise of Preventive Medicine
PREFACE
THE manuscript of Sir William Osler's lectures on the "Evolution of
Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in April, 1913, on the
Silliman Foundation, was immediately turned in to the Yale University
Press for publication. Duly set in type, proofs in galley form had been
submitted to him and despite countless interruptions he had already
corrected and revised a number of the galleys when the great war came.
But with the war on, he threw himself with energy and devotion into
the military and public duties which devolved upon him and so never
completed his proof-reading and intended alterations. The careful
corrections which Sir William made in the earlier galleys show that the
lectures were dictated, in the first instance, as loose memoranda for oral
delivery rather than as finished compositions for the eye, while
maintaining throughout the logical continuity and the engaging con
moto which were so characteristic of his literary style. In revising the
lectures for publication, therefore, the editors have merely endeavored
to carry out, with care and befitting reverence, the indications supplied
in the earlier galleys by Sir William himself. In supplying dates and
references which were lacking, his preferences as to editions and
readings have been borne in mind. The slight alterations made, the
adaptation of the text to the eye, detract nothing from the original
freshness of the work.

In a letter to one of the editors, Osler described these lectures as "an
aeroplane flight over the progress of medicine through the ages." They
are, in effect, a sweeping panoramic survey of the whole vast field,
covering wide areas at a rapid pace, yet with an extraordinary variety of
detail. The slow, painful character of the evolution of medicine