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William Osler and his neighbors, the Whitelocke twins
William Osler and his neighbors, the Whitelocke twins
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Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University. William Osler Photo Collection
The twins were daughters of Richard Henry Anglin Whitelocke, a neighbor and Oxford surgeon. The girls each had a lock of white hair (not visible in the photo) that apparently gave the family its name and which allegedly appears every 2nd or 3rd generation.. [Description courtesy of McGill University.]
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