MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL FACULTY

摘要

In my early days at the Library, when Dr. Osler used to sit across from me at my double desk, he would absentmindedly pick up a pencil and apparently scribble idly on scratch pad, blotter, anything at hand. Finally it was impressed on my consciousness that it was always the same two words that were written, "James Bovell," and I could not help but wonder at the significance. The riddle was solved when in a reprint of an address to medical students at the University of Toronto, October i, I903, I read: "To one of my teachers I must pay in passing the tribute of filial affection. There are men here today who feel as I do about Dr. James Bovell-that he was one of those finer spirits, not uncommon in a suitable environment. * * * When in September, I870, he wrote me that he did not intend to return from the West Indies, I felt I had lost a father and a friend; but in Robert Palmer Howard of Montreal I found a noble stepfather, and to these two men, and to my first teacher, the Rev. W. A. Johnson of Weston, I owe my success in life-if success meaans getting what you want and being satisfied with it."*