William Henry Welch

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association with Osler
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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Anniversary information added.		Apr 30, 2024
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Apr 15, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Apr 04, 2024
	Deleted Web site: Chronology of the Life of William Henry Welch.	Grace Young	Aug 07, 2013
	Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of William Henry Welch.	Yamini Chauhan	May 27, 2011
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998