Osler Library of the history of medecine 

The Osler Library was opened in 1929, ten years after the death of its principal benefactor, Sir William Osler (1849-1919). Osler was a prominent member of McGill’s Faculty of Medicine and pathologist at the Montreal General Hospital. His original bequest to McGill was a carefully assembled collection of 8,000 books, and it has been developed by purchase and by gift to now number over 80,000 books, serials and historical theses. The Library is Canada’s foremost scholarly resource in the history of medicine and one of the most important libraries of its kind in North America. In addition to the library’s holdings of rare books, there is a strong circulating collection of current secondary works and modern editions of historic texts, as well as a reference collection, archives, manuscripts, photographs, portraits and artifacts.