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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:
  • ''The Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease''

  • ''Pigmentation-cirrhosis in a case of Haemochromatosis''

  • ''An Historical Sketch of the Medical Faculty of McGill University''

  • ''On the Classification of Museum Specimens-American Medicine''

  • ''The Museum in Medical Teaching''

  • ''Congenital Cardiac Disease in Osler's Modern Medicine''

  • ''The Determination of Basal Metabolism by Indirect Calorimetry''

  • ''Florence Nightingale as seen in her portraits''

  • ''McGill's Heroic Past''



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