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Sir '''William Osler''', 1st Baronet was born on July 12, 1849 in Bond Head, [[Canada]] West (now Ontario), and raised after 1857 in Dundas, Ontario. He has been a doyen in medicine and is often referred to as the Father of Modern Medicine (but Osler believed that Avicenna should hold this honor).
Sir '''William Osler''', 1st Baronet was born on July 12, 1849 in Bond Head, [[Canada]] West (now Ontario), and raised after 1857 in Dundas, Ontario. He has been a doyen in medicine and is often referred to as the Father of Modern Medicine (but Osler believed that Avicenna should hold this honor).



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Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet was born on July 12, 1849 in Bond Head, Canada West (now Ontario), and raised after 1857 in Dundas, Ontario. He has been a doyen in medicine and is often referred to as the Father of Modern Medicine (but Osler believed that Avicenna should hold this honor).

Apart from being an astute clinician and teacher, he is also widely known as historian, classicist, essayist, conversationalist, organizer, manager and author.

He passed away on December 29, 1919 at he age of 70 during the Spanish influenza epidemic; his wife, Grace, lived another nine years. Sir William and Lady Osler's ashes now rest in a niche within the Osler Library at McGill University.