Francis John Shepherd / [George Eli Armstrong].

  • Armstrong, George Eli, 1855-1933.
Date:
1930
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Credit: Francis John Shepherd / [George Eli Armstrong]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 SURGERY, GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS In 1883, he was elected full surgeon to the Montreal General Hospital and organized a course of summer clinics for students who remained in Montreal during the summer months. These clinics were very popular and much appre¬ ciated. While in Vienna, Dr. Shepherd took a special course in dermatology under Hebra, and on his return started a department of dermatology in the Montreal General Hospital. His interest in the subject continued to the end. In 1907 he was named vice-president of the Dermatological Congress held in New York and in 1928 was made president of the Canadian Branch of the British Dermatologi¬ cal Society. Dr. Shepherd’s surgical work merits the highest praise. He was a most care¬ ful diagnostician, and his operative work was bold and progressive yet at the same time conservative. He was particularly interested in the development of the surgery of the thyroid. I was intimately associated with him for many years and always found his opinion sound. Under his teaching in the old summer ses¬ sions many young men received a training in surgery at the beginning of their career that left an impress that was never lost. Always careful, the interest of his patient was ever foremost in his mind. Dr. Shepherd’s work in anatomy, dermatology, and surgery was appreciated outside his native land. In 1913, he was chosen to act as vice-president of the department of surgery at the International Medical Congress in London. He received an honorary fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, and had the degree of doctor of laws conferred upon him by the University. He also received the much prized honor of the honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The degree of doctor of laws was conferred upon him by Harvard University in 1906, by McGill in 1915, and by Queens in 1919. He was also made an honorary fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He was elected corresponding member of the Societe Internationale de Chirurgie of Paris, and foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1924, his numerous friends in the profession presented him with a portrait of himself, by Miss Des Clayes. This now hangs in the large hall of the medical building of McGill University along with the portraits of previous deans. He was dean of the Medical Faculty 1908-1914, president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1894, and president of the Canadian Medical Association in 1901. Dr. Shepherd contributed liberally to medical literature. In addition to his Surgical Retrospect already mentioned, he was joint author of American Textbook of Surgery, author of the article “The Thyroid” in the American Practice of Surgery. He contributed to the Annals of Surgery, Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, Canadian Medical and Surgical Journal, British Medical Journal, and Lancet. Dr. Shepherd had many outside interests. He was fond of nature and fishing, and had a lovely country home at Como on the Ottawa river where he entertained
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