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Famous Doctors: Osler, Banting, Penfield
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Famous Doctors: Osler, Banting, Penfield
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Biographies of William Osler (1849-1919), Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941) and Wilder Penfield (1891-1976). Dr. William Osler was a world-famous professor of medicine at McGill University before moving on to Johns Hopkins University and then Oxford University. A graduate of McGill's Faculty of Medicine in 1872, he was appointed professor in the university's Faculty of Medicine in 1874. He remained at McGill until 1884. The American-born Dr. Wilder Penfield immigrated to Montreal in 1928 to teach at McGill University and became the city's first neurosurgeon. In 1934, Penfield founded and became the first director of the Montreal Neurological Institute and its associated Montreal Neurological Hospital. Banting was an Ontario medical scientist, physician and Nobel laureate noted as the co-discoverer of insulin and its therapeutic potential.
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Toronto, ON
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Clarke, Irwin
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1956
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en
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Pratt, Viola Whitney. Famous Doctors: Osler, Banting, Penfield. Toronto, ON: Clarke, Irwin, 1956.
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