William Osler and Basil Gildersleeve on Plato's Eryximachus.
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.
Bryan
Charles S
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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
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Brian K
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Briggs
Ward W
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