This gentle man is Sir William Osler.. He has frequently been described as the “Father of Modern Medicine” and one of the "greatest diagnosticians ever to wield a stethoscope". What did he hv to say about #India ? @sanjeevsanyal @vipintukur @naveenthacker @EricTopol @mvankerkhove Image
His fascination for #India, The land of #Vishnu had no bounds..!! At each & every intellectual commentary he mentions about his interest in the values #India was known for @ProfSomashekhar @iapindia @IndianMedicalAs @MoHFW_INDIA @VirusesImmunity Image
In one of his essays; “Of India, of "Vishnu-land," what can one say in a few minutes? To the Hindoos we owe a debt which we can at any rate acknowledge; and even in medicine, many of our traditions and practices may be traced to them”. @drharshvardhan @PMOIndia @BharadwajSpeaks Image
Being very critical about the #British empire “And what has the British Government done towards the scientific investigation of the diseases of India? Until recently little or nothing”...!! @PHE_uk @BBCNews Image
Regarding inoculation and it’s usage in India especially against the Black Death; “plague” he writes, “As I have already mentioned, the germ is known in #India, and prophylactic inoculations have been made on a large scale in India, with a certain measure of success #scicomm Image
He mentions about the discoveries of #malaria parasite by Ronald Ross in #India. Sir Ronald Ross received the #NobelPrize for #Physiology or #Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, & the first born outside Europe. Image
He acknowledges the fact that #india was probably responsible for great advances in #anesthesiology , the fact that it provided lot of opportunities to experiment with various #surgeries ! #science #historyofmedicine @PastMedHistory @IndianMedAssn @iiscbangalore @AIIMSRDA Image
He writes “ a recollection of the days when the desire of my life was to enter the India Medical Service, a dream of youth, dim now and almost forgotten – a dream of "Vishnu land, what Avatar!" We all need to realise this ..!! @theskindoctor13
A recent critic levels two new charges against Sir William #Osler : (1) that in 1912 he was a vice president of t First International Eugenics Congress; & (2) that in 1914 he asserted Canada should remain a “a white man’s country.” @AskDrShashank tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Image
#Osler claimed that, "the effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of 25 & 40" & it was downhill from then on. Osler's speech was covered by the popular press which headlined their reports with "Osler recommends chloroform at sixty"..! @VincentRK
Osler also coined t description of #pneumonia as "the friend of the aged" since it allowed elderly individuals a quick, comparatively painless death. Coincidentally,Osler himself died of pneumonia. Image

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