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CUSHING, HARVEY. The Life of Sir William Osler. Frontispiece portrait of Osler and 44 plates. 2 volumes. 8vo, 232x146 mm, original navy cloth gilt, spine ends and cover corners rubbed, short tear at top of Volume 1 front joint, faint spotting on Volume 2 rear cover; free endpapers toned, contents otherwise clean. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925
first edition, first printing. Cushing Society 6.inscribed and signed (quoting Osler in Aequanimitas): "Attendance on a medical society may prove the Salvation of the man who from success in practice 'needs to pray the prayer of the Litany against the evils of prosperity' Inscribed for Dr. W. A. Womer by Harvey Cushing."
