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Letter to William Osler, March 16, 1893
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CA OSLER P417-3-2-88-46
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(1828-1910)
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Dr. Walter Franklin Atlee was born on October 12, 1828, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
He pursued a career in medicine and completed his undergraduate studies at St. Paul's College of Yale University in 1846. In 1850, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a medical degree. Afterward, he went to France, where he met and married Louise Caussade in 1856. Dr. Atlee worked in Paris and several other cities for six years before returning to Philadelphia, where he practiced medicine for half a century. He was a frequent contributor to Hay's American Journal of the Medical Sciences and translated the book “Bernard and Robin on the Blood” (1854). He also edited Nelatin's Clinical Surgery.
He died on August 18, 1910, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Letter to William Osler from Walter F. Atlee. Atlee comments on various books and articles, particularly on Osler's own "Physics and Physicians, as depicted in Plato." He would like a member of the Historical Club to write an article on Gui Patin. Includes manuscript notes.
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- Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919 (Recipient)