Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 312, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1919 — DR. OSLER, NOTED PHYSICIAN, DEAD AT AGE OF 70. [ARTICLE]

DR. OSLER, NOTED PHYSICIAN, DEAD AT AGE OF 70.

Oxford, Eng., Dec. 29.—Sir William Osier, noted physician, who has been ill for several weeks, died here this evening. O— — Although Sir William Osier was known to be seriously ill at his home in Oxford, where he has been regius professor of medicine since 1904, recent advices Tiad given hope for his recovery. “ Sir William, who passed tils seventieth birthday last July, was stricken with pneumonia in ’November, but later was reported convalescent. A fortnight ago, however, reports reached this country that he had taken a turn for the worse. Cabled ’advices shortly afterward announced his condition somewhat improved, while on Christmas day a message from him was received at the Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore in which the famous physician announced he was “making a good fight” after an empyema operation. Dr. Osier was professor of medicine «t Johns Hopkins university from 1880 to 1904. He was born in Canada in 1849. Dr. Osier startled the world in 1905 by declaring .in his farewell address at Johns Hopkins that little is by a man over 40 years of age and that men of 60 should be retired or chloroformed. He was then nearly 60 himself. His statement created such a furore that he wad later constrained to deny that he had made it, but the “Osier theory” was actually held responsible for many suicides of men over 6fl> for years later. Dr. Osier’s mother lived tb the age of 100.