An Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

An Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays, credited to Sir William Osler, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of An Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays by Sir William Osler. Read in English by David Wales Here are thirteen biographical sketches of physicians penned by one of the founders of modern medicine, William Osler, published in 1908. "Sir William Osler, one of the best-loved and most influential teachers of his time, was born in Canada in 1849…. Wherever he worked his gifted and unique personality was a center of inspiration… one would like to see his honorable place as a man of letters more generally understood. His generous wisdom and infectious enthusiasm are delightfully expressed in his collected writings…. His lucid and exquisite prose, with its extraordinary wealth of quotation from the literature of all ages, and his unfailing humor and tenderness, put him in the first rank of didactic essayists…. Rich in every gentle quality that makes life endeared, his books are the most sagacious and helpful of modern writings..." - Summary by Christopher Morley, Modern Essays, 1921, and David Wales

Recording facts

• Recording title: An Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays
• Author credits: Sir William Osler
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 11:16:07

Catalogue topics

• biography
• medicine
• John Locke
• physicians
• doctors
• girolamo fracastoro
• fracastorius
• thomas browne william harvey

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 1:50
2. 01 - An Alabama Student — 41:19
3. 02 - Thomas Dover, Physician And Buccaneer — 40:05
4. 03 - John Keats, The Apothecary Poet — 36:30
5. 04 - Oliver Wendell Holmes — 21:37
6. 05 - John Locke As A Physician Part 1 — 39:43
7. 06 - John Locke As A Physician Part 2 — 23:56
8. 07 - Elisha Bartlett, A Rhode Island Philosopher Part 1 — 53:06
9. 08 - Elisha Bartlett, A Rhode Island Philosopher Part 2 (Including an Appendix, A Sketch Of Hippocrates) — 58:37
10. 09 - A Backwood Physiologist Part 1 — 37:52
11. 10 - A Backwood Physiologist Part 2 — 29:20
12. 11 - The Influence Of Louis On American Medicine — 48:03
13. 12 - William Pepper — 42:44
14. 13 - Alfred Stille — 35:27
15. 14 - Sir Thomas Browne Part 1 — 32:07
16. 15 - Sir Thomas Browne Part 2 — 24:55
17. 16 - Fracastorius — 29:47
18. 17 - Harvey And His Discovery Part 1 — 41:50
19. 18 - Harvey And His Discovery Part 2 — 37:19

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