Andrew Macphail Fonds
2 cm of textual records.
1918-1921
John Andrew Macphail was born in Orwell, Prince Edward Island and received his medical degree at McGill in 1891. He became McGill University’s first Professor of the History of Medicine in 1907 and occupied the Chair for thirty years. During World War I, he was an officer in the 6th Field Ambulance with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. In 1918, his war work was rewarded by a knighthood.
Fonds documents a portion of the literary activities of Sir Andrew Macphail with the manuscript of In Flanders Fields and Other Poems by Lieut.-Col. John McCrae M.D. with the Essay in Character by Sir Andrew Macphail, originally published in 1919. The fonds contains a letter and a manuscript.
Given by Macphail to the medical library of McGill University in 1921. Old accession number 255.
The documents are in English.
Based on the documents in the fonds.
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