medical college, in an oil painting titled the gross clinic. canadian politician and premier of saskatchewan tommy douglas suffered from osteomyelitis as a child, and in 1910, underwent several surgeries, which the surgeon performed for free in exchange for allowing his medical students to observe the procedures (which douglas's parents could not have otherwise afforded). this experience convinced him that medical care should be free for everyone. douglas became known as the canadian "father of medicare." fossil record main article: paleopathology evidence for osteomyelitis found in the fossil record is studied by paleopathologists, specialists in ancient disease and injury. it has been reported in fossils of the large carnivorous dinosaur allosaurus fragilis. osteomyelitis has been also associated with the first evidence of parasites in dinosaur bones.