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Born in St. Andrews East, Quebec , she was part of the third class of women students admitted to McGill University 's Faculty of Arts. She received her B.A in 1890 . She received her M.D from Bishop's University in 1894 and was the only woman in her class. She did post graduate study in medicine at Zurich , Vienna , Edinburgh and Glasgow . Returning back to Montreal she was appointed assistant curator at the McGill Pathological Museum in 1899 , becoming curator 1901 . She was awarded an honorary medical degree in 1910 from McGill and was made a Lecturer in Pathology. She became an Assistant Professor in 1925 . She helped to found the Federation Of Medical Women Of Canada , a Canadian organization committed to the professional, social and personal advancement of women physicians, in 1924 . She was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall Of Fame in 1994 . In 2000 Canada Post issued a forty-six cent postage stamp entitled ''The Heart of the Matter'' in her honour. She wrote over 140 papers and books. Some of them include:
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