is teaching days at McGil University。 Many of the outstanding physicians2 today were his students。 Nearly all of the practicing doctors of today were brought up on his medical textbooks。 Among his many remarkable contributions to medicine are his unpublished notes on how people die。
His greatness is attributed by his biographers and critics3 not alone to his profound medical knowledge and insight but to his broad general education； for he was a very cultured man。 He was interested in what men have done and thought throughout the ages。 And he knew that the only way to find out what the best experiences of the race had been was to read what people had written。 But Osler’s problem was the same as everyone else’s； only more so。 He was a busy physician； a teacher of physicians； and a medical…research specialist。 There was no time in a 24…hour day that did not rightly belong to one of these three occupations； except the few hours for sleep； meals； and bodily functions。
Osler arrived at his solution early。 He would read the last 15 minutes before he went to sleep。 If bedtime was set for 11：00 ； he read from 11：00 to 11：15。 if research kept him up to 2：00 ：00 to 2：15。 Over a very long lifetime； Osler never broke the rule once he had established it。 We have evidence that after a while he simply could not fall asleep until h