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School of Medicine professor has two volumes published
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| Lawrence D. Longo, MD |
Loma Linda University is renowned for the publications of its faculty
members. A recent example of such endeavor is two volumes by Lawrence
D. Longo, MD, director, Center for Perinatal Biology, distinguished professor
of physiology and obstetrics
and gynecology.
The first, Dearest Grace… Yours W.O.…, by Professors Longo and Philip
M. Teigen, PhD, of the National Library of Medicine, is a collection of 28 letters
from William Osler, MD, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, United
Kingdom, to his wife, Grace Revere Osler.
They represent the only letters known from Dr. Osler to his wife. They were written
in 1911 during a six-week trip to Egypt with his brother, Edmund Boyd Osler,
of Toronto, Ontario, Can-ada, to collect antiquities for the Royal Toronto Museum.
Edmund Boyd, a prominent Canadian financier, member of Parliament, and railroad
magnate, helped to found this museum.
Several months following his return to Oxford, Dr. Osler was knighted by King
George V for his achievements in medicine and medical education. The following
year, his brother, Edmund Boyd, was knighted for his many contributions to Canadian
life and culture.
In addition to transcribing the letters, which are located in the Osler Library,
McGill University, Montreal, Professors Longo and Teigen wrote a lengthy commentary
on the state of early 20th century Egyptology, medicine, and travel to the Middle
East. They also include more than 200 footnotes explaining various items to which
Dr. Osler referred. The volume was published by the McGill University Press.
Additionally, Professor Longo has published a Lay Sermon of William Osler’s,
Man’s Redem-ption of Man, given at the University of Edinburgh in 1910.
This essay elaborates on the dramatic progress during the previous half century
in medicine, understanding of disease, and health care.
For this volume, Professor Longo wrote a preface to place the work in context,
and included more than 80 footnotes to clarify obscure references.
Currently, Professor Longo is president of the American Osler Society, an international
group of distinguished historians of medicine.
These volumes represent but two recent examples of the contributions by Loma
Linda University faculty to academic medicine and scholarship.
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