OSLER WILLIAM Sir Christmas and the Microscope In Hardwic

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OSLER'S LITERARY DEBUT Christmas and the Microscope. in: Hardwicke's Science-Gossip, Volume 5, 1 February 1869, page 44. vi, [2], 288 pages. Large 8vo, original cloth, binding slightly cocked, spine darkened, ends rubbed, rear hinge cracked; endpapers browned, opening leaves foxed. London, 1870

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first edition of osler's first publication, a short paper on microorganisms he observed in a water sample from a spring in Ontario, written when he was 19. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler I, 55; Golden & Roland 1; Osler 3535.