Andrew Fernando Holmes: Protestantism, Medicine, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Montreal.
This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Andrew Fernando Holmes, famous for his work on congenital heart disease.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto
University of Toronto Press
2020.
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781487502195 |
| Summary: | This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Andrew Fernando Holmes, famous for his work on congenital heart disease. Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Anniversary -- 1. From Cadiz to Lower Canada: Holmes's Atlantic World -- Cadiz to Quebec -- La Prairie and Quebec City -- Montreal -- Conquest and Consumption: Building a Transatlantic Culture -- The Religious Culture of Montreal -- 2. "Well and Sufficiently Taught" -- Alexander Skakel and the Aberdeen Enlightenment in Montreal -- Daniel Arnoldi and Holmes's Apprenticeship -- Medical Edinburgh -- Courses and Clinical Instruction -- Extramural Teaching -- The Royal College of Surgeons -- Societies -- Paris and the Medical Grand Tour -- 3. The Origins of McGill Medicine -- The Early Years of the Montreal General Hospital -- Lord Dalhousie and the Reorganization of the Montreal Medical Board -- 4. Family and Religious Life -- Susannah Holmes Wilkes and Juliet Wadsworth Holmes -- Mark Willoughby, the Newfoundland School Society, and Trinity Chapel -- "Their Valued Fellow-Laborer": The Colonial Church and School Society80 -- Bishop Fulford's Opposition to the CCSS -- The Sabrevois Mission -- Andrew F. Holmes: Transatlantic Evangelical -- 5. "The Wonders of Creation" -- Botany -- Montreal Natural History Society -- Collecting Minerals -- Holmes, William Logan, and the Geological Survey of Canada -- An Evangelical in Science -- 6. McGill and the Politics of Medicine -- The Montreal School of Medicine and Surgery, 1843-9 -- The Death of Julien Champeau -- Playing Politics -- Taking Care of Business -- St Lawrence School of Medicine -- The McGill Medical Tradition -- 7. The Practice of Medicine -- The Holmes Heart -- More Cardiology Cases -- Cholera, 1832 -- Childbirth and Obstetrics -- A Vision for Medicine -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 1487514859 |