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He has been called one of the greatest icons of modern medicine, the Father of Modern Medicine, which is what he himself considered Avicenna to be.

He was born in Bond Head, Canada West (now Ontario) and studied at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, where he obtained his medical degree. Later in his life he went south to Philadelphia and was appointed Chair of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. In 1889 he became the first Professor of Medicine in Johns Hopkins UniversityThe Johns Hopkins University is a prestigious private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland. Hopkins holds many "firsts" in American education: it was the first university in the United States to put an emphasis on research, founde. He later moved to EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England in 1905 and pursued his career as the Regius Chair of Medicine at OxfordUniversity of Oxford Motto Dominus Illuminatio Mea ("The Lord is my Light") ( Psalm 27) Established c. 1096 School type Public Chancellor The Right Hon. Chris Patten Vice-Chancellor Dr. John Hood Location Oxford, United Kingdom Enrolment 17,000 total (5,6, which he held until his death. Osler was named a baronetA baronet (traditional abbreviation Bart modern abbreviation Bt is the holder of a species of knighthood known as a baronetcy''. The title was introduced by James I of England in 1611 to raise funds. It is an hereditary honour, but it does not amount to a in 1911 for his great contributions to the field of medicine.

Osler was a great collector of books relevant to the history of medicineThis article discusses the history of medicine . All human societies have medical beliefs birth, death, disease and cures are explained in some manner. Historically, throughout the world illness has often been attributed to witchcraft, demons or the will. After his death, his collection formed the nucleus of McGill University's Osler Library of the History of Medicine , which opened in 1929.

Throughout his life Osler was a great admirer of the 17th century physician and philosopher Sir Thomas BrowneSir Thomas Browne ( October 19, 1605 October 19, 1682) was an English author of a number of works that disclose his wide learning in various fields of learning including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric. A consummate literary craftsman, his wo.

Osler lent his nameAn eponym is a person (real or fictitious) whose name has become identified with a particular object or activity. One of the first cases was in second millennium BC, when the Assyrians named each year after a high official limmu . Also, the eponym archon to a number of diseases and symptoms.

• Osler's sign is an artificially high blood pressureBlood pressure or arterial blood pressure is the pressure (force per unit area) exerted by the blood on the walls of the blood vessels. Unless indicated otherwise, blood pressure refers to the pressure in the large arteries, such as the brachial artery (i reading due to atherosclerotic arteries.
• Osler's nodes are painful indentiations on the muscular pads of hands and feet, a symptom of infectious endocarditis.
• Rendu-Osler-Weber disease (also known as hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia) is a syndrome of multiple vascular malformations on the skin, in the nasal and oral mucosa, in the lungs and elsewhere.
• Osler-Vaquez disease (also known as Polycythemia vera)