{"id":1103,"date":"2014-10-29T09:18:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T13:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2014-10-29T13:23:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T17:23:57","slug":"showmans-patter-a-description-of-books-in-the-osler-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/showmans-patter-a-description-of-books-in-the-osler-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Showman&#8217;s patter : a description of books in the Osler Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We recently had the pleasure of digitizing over 300 pages of &#8216;amusing and instructive anecdotes about many of the outstanding items in the <a title=\"Osler History of Medicine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/branches\/osler\" target=\"_blank\">Osler Library of the History of Medicine<\/a> by Dr. William Willoughby Francis<\/span> (1878-1959)<span class=\"s1\">, the <\/span>first Osler Librarian who ran the library from its opening in 1929 <span class=\"s1\">until his death in 1959. This original typescript manuscript (with handwritten annotations) <\/span>was transcribed from Dr. Francis\u2019 recorded descriptions of choice items from the collection and provides <span class=\"s1\">a fascinating piece of library history.<\/span>\u00a0 The full volume is available for <a title=\"Download from McGill catalogue\" href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.worldcat.org\/oclc\/428022411\" target=\"_blank\">download through our catalogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1119\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.worldcat.org\/oclc\/428022411\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1119\" class=\"wp-image-1119 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/10\/Osler_showmans-patter-pg2-section.png\" alt=\"Excerpt from page 2 of Francis, W. W. (1950). Showman's patter: A description of books in the Osler Library ; dictated by the author, 1950-1957.\" width=\"745\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/10\/Osler_showmans-patter-pg2-section.png 745w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/10\/Osler_showmans-patter-pg2-section-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/10\/Osler_showmans-patter-pg2-section-500x200.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excerpt from page 2 of Francis, W. W. (1950). Showman&#8217;s patter: A description of books in the Osler Library ; dictated by the author, 1950-1957.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Dr. Francis undoubtedly knew the collection as well as Sir William Osler (1849-1919) himself, being the primary editor of the Bibliotheca Osleriana, the annotated catalogue of Osler\u2019s collection of approximately 8,000 historical medical and scientific works which Sir William donated to McGill in 1919.\u00a0 Dr. Francis also grew up with the collection, for Osler was not only a close relative but a surrogate father to him. If you&#8217;d like to learn more about Dr. William Willoughby Francis 185 cm of textual records are held in the \u00a0the Osler Library of the History of Medicine archives. You can consult the fond guide here <a href=\"http:\/\/osler.library.mcgill.ca\/media\/pdf\/p155.pdf\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/osler.library.mcgill.ca\/media\/pdf\/p155.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sarahseverson\/9373510808\/in\/set-72157634808175432\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sarahseverson\/9373510808\/in\/set-72157634808175432<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View from the second floor of the Olser Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently had the pleasure of digitizing over 300 pages of &#8216;amusing and instructive anecdotes about many of the outstanding items in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine by Dr. William Willoughby Francis (1878-1959), the first Osler Librarian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/showmans-patter-a-description-of-books-in-the-osler-library\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[132,133,131],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-osler","tag-book-collecting","tag-library-history","tag-osler-william-sir-1849-1919"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}