Sunday, December 5, 2010, 12:00 – 3:00 p.m. 

A unique “End of Year-Holiday Season” Osler Society Luncheon.

When:           Sunday, December 5, from 12 noon – 3:00 p.m.
Where:         The Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn, New York.
The Event:  

A privately guided tour of “The Civil War in Paintings” by artist Mort Kunstler, “the Dean of American History Painters”, which captures the sights, feelings and drama of this era and features immortal figures such as Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Abraham Lincoln.

Lunch of assorted sandwiches and salads catered by Graces Marketplace, NYC.

A discourse on “Medicine in the Civil War” by Dr. Alfred Jay Bollet, a national figure in medicine, who has served as Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia, Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale, as well as Chair of the Dept. of Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia and at SUNY Downstate.

Book signings by both Mort Kunstler and Dr. Bollet, author of “Civil War Medicine, Challenges and Triumphs.” (which make great gifts for the holidays)

This event is open to Osler Society members, their spouses, children, and friends, in addition to other interested members of the general public.

Dr. Bollet is a physician and civil war scholar who has researched and written about a wide variety of topics in civil war medicine, including; the introduction of anesthesia, the evolution of general hospitals, advances and innovations in surgery and nursing, the special status of “captured” physicians, the contributions of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bowditch, Austin Flint, Samuel Gross and others, the death toll from epidemic disease vs. battle casualties, the contributions of Clara Barton who later founded the Red Cross, the work of poet Walt Whitman who attended to the sick and wounded, as well as the medical issues surrounding the deaths of Stonewall Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, and others.

“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation…shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, November 19, 1863.

As seating is very limited, reservations must be made in advance. The price for the entire event, including lunch is $55 per person for Society members, spouses and children; and $65 per person for other attendees. 

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