Andrew Fernando Holmes : : Protestantism, Medicine, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Montreal /

Andrew Fernando Holmes : : Protestantism, Medicine, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Montreal / / Richard Vaudry.

This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Andrew Fernando Holmes, famous for his work on congenital heart disease. Physician, surgeon, natural historian, educator, Protestant evangelical. Andrew Fernando Holmes’s name is synonymous with the McGill medical faculty and with the dis...

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Vaudry, Richard ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.) :; 15 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Anniversary
  • 1. From Cadiz to Lower Canada: Holmes’s Atlantic World
  • 2. “Well and Sufficiently Taught”
  • 3. The Origins of McGill Medicine
  • 4. Family and Religious Life
  • 5. “The Wonders of Creation”
  • 6. McGill and the Politics of Medicine
  • 7. The Practice of Medicine
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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