# Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays

An audiobook by Sir William Osler, read by LibriVox volunteers (11 h 16 min, English).

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

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## Chapters

0. Preface (1:50): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_00_osler_64kb.mp3
1. An Alabama Student (41:19): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_01_osler_64kb.mp3
2. Thomas Dover, Physician And Buccaneer (40:05): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_02_osler_64kb.mp3
3. John Keats, The Apothecary Poet (36:30): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_03_osler_64kb.mp3
4. Oliver Wendell Holmes (21:37): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_04_osler_64kb.mp3
5. John Locke As A Physician Part 1 (39:43): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_05_osler_64kb.mp3
6. John Locke As A Physician Part 2 (23:56): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_06_osler_64kb.mp3
7. Elisha Bartlett, A Rhode Island Philosopher Part 1 (53:06): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_07_osler_64kb.mp3
8. Elisha Bartlett, A Rhode Island Philosopher Part 2 (Including an Appendix, A Sketch Of Hippocrates) (58:37): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_08_osler_64kb.mp3
9. A Backwood Physiologist Part 1 (37:52): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_09_osler_64kb.mp3
10. A Backwood Physiologist Part 2 (29:20): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_10_osler_64kb.mp3
11. The Influence Of Louis On American Medicine (48:03): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_11_osler_64kb.mp3
12. William Pepper (42:44): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_12_osler_64kb.mp3
13. Alfred Stille (35:27): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_13_osler_64kb.mp3
14. Sir Thomas Browne Part 1 (32:07): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_14_osler_64kb.mp3
15. Sir Thomas Browne Part 2 (24:55): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_15_osler_64kb.mp3
16. Fracastorius (29:47): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_16_osler_64kb.mp3
17. Harvey And His Discovery Part 1 (41:50): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_17_osler_64kb.mp3
18. Harvey And His Discovery Part 2 (37:19): https://archive.org/download/alabamastudent_1610_librivox/alabamastudent_18_osler_64kb.mp3