Osler as teacher

“But he encouraged us to read widely outside of medicine in addition to the reading of medical books and journals. It was through his enthusiastic recommendation that I became acquainted with Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici, Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, Montaigne’s Essays, Plutarch’s Lives, and Jowett’s translation of Plato’s Dialogues. Under Dr. Osler’s influence I became an omnivorous reader and explored many different fields” (Barker, 86).