Medical Licensing in Lower Canada: The Dispute Over Canada's First Medical Degree

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Author/collaborator
Title
Medical Licensing in Lower Canada: The Dispute Over Canada's First Medical Degree
Abstract
The author describes the 1833 legal dispute between the Medical Board of Examiners for the District of Montreal and McGill University over the right of William L. Logie, the university's (and Canada's) first medical school graduate, to practice without first sitting for the Board's examinations. The author also examines English-French relations in Montreal during the early nineteenth century.
Publication
The Canadian Historical Review
Volume
Vol. 55
Issue
no. 4
Pages
489-504
Date
December 1974
Language
en
Notes

Reprinted in: Shortt, S. E. D. (ed). Medicine in Canadian Society. Historical Perspectives. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1981. pp. 137-163.

Citation
Tunis, Barbara. “Medical Licensing in Lower Canada: The Dispute Over Canada’s First Medical Degree.” The Canadian Historical Review Vol. 55, no. 4 (December 1974): 489–504.
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