title: William Osler and Basil Gildersleeve on Plato's Eryximachus.
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.
authors.affiliation: Center 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
authors.forename: Charles S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Bryan
authors.forename: Brian K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Wise
authors.forename: Ward W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Briggs
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006809:Humanities / Q000266:history*; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008091:Literature / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States