Montréal
28 entries published in this place. (Montréal, CA)
1885
#10192
Notes on diseases among the Indians frequenting York Factory, Hudson's Bay. Read before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, February, 1885.
Mathews was a surgeon employed by the Hudson's Bay Company. "York Factory was a settlement and Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) factory (trading post) located on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay in northeastern Manitoba…
1886
#10191
The "medicine-man"; or, Indian and Eskimo notions of medicine. Reprinted from the "Canada Medical and Surgical Journal" for March and April, 1886.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1886
#12269
Outlines of lectures on physiology, with an introductory chapter on general biology, and an appendix containing laboratory exercises in practical physiology.
Mills, a student of Osler, became the first professional physiologist in Canada. This outline of his lectures is probably the first Canadian physiology textbook. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1891
#11633
Notes on the practice of medicine.
This was Howard's only book. Osler, in his anonymous obituary of his mentor R. Palmer Howard (1823-1889), wrote, "As a teacher of medicine for thirty-three years, Dr. Howard enjoyed a unique reputation in his own coun…
1920 –1924
#13463
McGill Library. William Osler Letter Index.
https://osler-letters.library.mcgill.ca/about "About the William Osler Letter Collection "Sir William Osler (1849-1919) is one of the most renowned and respected physicians in medical history. Born in Bond Head, Ontar…
1931
#11026
History of medicine in the province of Quebec.
Reprinted, with additions, from "The Storied Province of Quebec". Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1950
#2238
The physiology and pathology of exposure to stress.
In his study of the etiology of the collagen disease Selye developed the idea that animals react to stress or injury by a certain sequence of physiological reactions – the “general adaptation syndrome”.
c. 1990
#13586
Casey A. Wood Collection: Complete inventory list. P145.
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/33597385/casey-a-wood-collection-osler-library-archives-mcgill-university "This is a guide to one of the collections held by the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill …
1992
#13605
Trois siècles d'histoire médicale au Québec: Chronologie des institutions et des pratiques, 1639-1939.
1994
#8864
Home medicine: The Newfoundland experience.
"Based on material from the Folklore Archives at Memorial University as well as other sources, Crellin's catalogue includes such topics as abortion, baldness and hair preparations, blood-letting, cancer, drunkenness, …
1996 –2006
#11012
McGill medicine: The first half century, 1829-1885. McGill medicine: The second half century, 1885-1936. 2 vols.
The second volume was co-authored by Hanaway, Creuss, and James Darragh.
1997
#13604
Histoire du Collège des médecins du Québec, 1847-1997.
1999
#11278
The works of Egerton Yorrick Davis, MD, Sir William Osler's alter ego. Edited, annotated, and introduced by Richard L. Golden.
2002
#13633
"Dearest G ...Yours WO." William Osler's letters from Egypt to Grace Revere Osler. Edited by Lawrence D. Long and Philip M. Teigen.
2003
#11903
Labeling people: French scholars on society, race, and empire, 1815-1848.
2004
#11286
A history of William Osler's The principles and practice of medicine by Richard L. Golden. (Osler Library Studies in the History of medicine No. 8).
This 267-page work is a definitive bibliographical history of Osler's classic textbook.
2005
#14029
Body counts: Medical quantification in historical and sociological perspective / La quantificattion medicale, perspectives historiques et sociologigues. Edited by Gérard Jorland, Annick Opinel and George Weisz.
2008
#14011
A history of neuro-oncology.
2014
#7411
The herbal of al-Ghāfiqī. A facsimile edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, with critical essays. Edited by F. Jamil Ragep and Faith Wallis with Pamela Miller and Adam Gacek.
2014
#13530
The black doctors of colonial Lima: Science, race, and writing in colonial and early Republican Peru.
"In this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin America, José Jouve Martín explores the reasons why the city of Lima, in the decades that preceded the wars of indepen…
2015
#13531
Expelling the plague: The Health Office and the implementation of quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377-1533.
2016
#11013
The General: A history of the Montreal General Hospital.
2016
#11794
The wounded brain healed: The golden age of the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1934–1984.
2017
#8520
Osler Library Prints Collection.
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/oslerprints/index.php "This varied collection of approximately 2,500 prints offers a fascinating look into the history of medicine through popular imagery. The medium of the print, bei…
2017
#11793
Fearful asymmetry: Bouillaud, Dax, Broca, and the localization of language, Paris, 1825-1879.
2018
#11051
Carving a niche: The medical profession in Mexico 1800-1870.
2018
#13566
Luminous creatures: The history and science of light production in living organisms.
2019
#14012
