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William Osler and Basil Gildersleeve on Plato's Eryximachus
Charles S Bryan1, Brian K Wise, Ward W Briggs
1Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Department of Medicine, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Two Medical Park, Suite 502, Columbia, SC 29203, USA. cbryan@richmed.medpark.sc.edu
Journal of Medical Biography
|January 11, 2003
Abstract:
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve was a colleague of Sir William Osler at the Johns Hopkins University. Gildersleeve was a classicist who praised Osler in public but who also took him to task for his high opinion of Eryximachus, a character in Plato's Symposium. The present paper reviews this dispute between two colleagues and explores its origins.