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Elora’s first doctor arrived in October, 1847. He was John Finlayson, a 35-year-old Scotsman. At the time, Elora had a population of perhaps 300, but the doctor also served people in the adjoining townships. In 1848, Finlayson was appointed coroner for the Wellington district.
John Finlaison (1783–1860) was a Scottish civil servant, government actuary and the first president of the Institute of Actuaries. John was born under the name Finlayson, however, was better known under the name of Finlaison.
He completed high school in 1945 at the age of 15 and went to college in Ohio where he was a pre-med student. Instead of going to medical school, however, he completed a masters (1955) and Ph.D. (1957) in biochemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Medicine in Canada began centuries before the French settled the shores of North America, but because Indigenous peoples passed on their traditions orally, the only written accounts of their practices and beliefs were recorded by white explorers and settlers. Indigenous people generally sought cures from a shaman, or medicine man. They also treated...
European medicine at the time of settlement was evolving into an identifiably scientific discipline, although theories and knowledge about disease developed very slowly. Most of the first medical practitioners from France were not trained physicians, but barber-surgeons, trained only by a rough and ready apprenticeship, or apothecaries who were the...
Despite the combined hazards of climate, disease, hunger and disputes with Indigenous peoples, by 1763, when New France was ceded to the British, Montréal and Québec Citywere thriving small cities. The medical system imported by the British was similar to that used by the French. Military surgeons continued to dominate the practice and organization...
During the 19th century, immigration to Canada, particularly from Britain and the United States, increased dramatically. Among the immigrants were many notable physicians, such as Christopher Widmer (who became known in Upper Canadaas the "Father of Surgery") and W. R. Beaumont, a prolific inventor of surgical instruments. Widmer practised at York ...
From the late 1700s, efforts to regulate the medical profession had provoked controversy between universities and boards of examiners over whether a medical degree constituted a licence to practise. The number of charlatans and incompetents practising medicine had proliferated, partly because the public preferred them, having no social or scientifi...
As the population of British North America increased, so did its susceptibility to epidemics. In 1832, 1834, 1849, and during the 1850s, cholera epidemics ravaged the country. In 1832, the disease spread from Québec City to most of the towns and cities in Upper Canadain only three weeks. During the cholera years in Canada, doctors disagreed over wh...
Two other major discoveries in medicine also occurred in the mid-1800s. The first was the discovery, in the 1840s, of anesthetic, which rendered surgery painless. Two Canadian doctors later made major contributions to developments in anesthesiology. In 1923, W. E. Brown of the University of Torontoestablished the value of ethylene as an anesthetic,...
By the 1850s, Canadian women had begun to demand access to medical schools, but until the 1880s, virtually all female physicians practising in Canada (e.g., Emily Howard Stowe, Jennie Kidd Trout) had trained in schools or with doctors outside Canada. In 1883, the Women's Medical College, affiliated with Queen's, and the Woman's Medical College, aff...
Of the 19th-century doctors who contributed to the prestige of Canadian medicine abroad, the most eminent was William Osler. Educated at the Toronto School of Medicine and at McGill, over time he was professor of medicine at University of Pennsylvania, was appointed to Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School and became Regius Professor of Medicin...
Tentative advances in medical research in Canada were accelerated by the discovery (1922) and clinical application of insulin by Frederick Banting, Charles Best and J.J.R. MacLeod. Because of their success and the increased interest in medical research, the government became involved in financing and more studies and institutes of medical research ...
Feb 27, 2019 · After the war, Finlayson befriended the young Freedmen Bureau's officials, Charles Hamilton and William Purman, stationed in Marianna in 1866. Remarkably, Finlayson allied himself with the Bureau, providing medical services to freedmen - becoming acclaimed as the only medical doctor in the county willing to treat African Americans - and ...
6 User reviews. Awards. 1 win. Episodes 191. Top-rated. Thu, Aug 16, 1962. S1.E1. It's All in the Mind. In 1928 Glasgow, Alan Finlay studies to become a qualified doctor, and dreams of becoming a surgeon. His landlord goes missing and Finlay follows a hunch which leads him to the town of Tannochbrae and a meeting which will change his life. 8.3/10.
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Finlayson, John Sylvester was born on September 19, 1933 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Alexander Smeillie and Anna Eva (Sylvester) Finlayson. Education Bachelor summa cum laude, Marietta College, 1953; Master of Science, University of Wisconsin, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1957. Career
