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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    Reprint from SURGERY, GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS July, 1930, Vol. LI, 138 140 MASTER SURGEONS OF AMERICA FRANCIS JOHN SHEPHERD GEORGE E. ARMSTRONG, M.D., F.A.C.S., Montreal, Quebec IN Vaudreuil, near Montreal, Francis John Shepherd was born in 1851. His early education was received in local schools, and after spending a year in the Arts Faculty he entered the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, and graduated in 1873. He then went across the Atlantic for two years’ further study in the hospitals of London, Paris, and Vienna, and he was asked by McGill Uni¬ versity to qualify as a teacher of Anatomy. This he did in his usually thorough manner. In Vienna he was joined by two distinguished graduates of McGill, George Ross, afterward professor of medicine in McGill, and William Osier, who graduated in 1872. On his return to Montreal he was given the position of demonstrator of anat¬ omy in the University and on the death of Professor Scott was made full pro¬ fessor. He established at McGill a school of human and comparative anatomy of a very high standard, recognized as such in America and in England, so that the students of McGill received a very thorough training in scientific and applied anatomy. In this work Dr. Shepherd associated with himself a number of promis¬ ing young men who afterward attained enviable positions in medicine, surgery, and the specialties. After twenty-five years’ service as professor of anatomy he was tendered a banquet by his past and present assistants on the teaching staff and by them given a fine silver coffee service. Dr. Shepherd’s interest in medical students was not confined to teaching them anatomy. Together with Ross and Osier, he founded an undergraduate society of medical students with regular meetings for the discussion of interesting questions. He was always interested in the development of the pathological museum, particularly the anatomical anomalies, of which he had accumulated a large and rare collection. Unfortunately, this collection was lost in a fire which destroyed the building in which they were housed. The Montreal Medico-Chirurgical Society enjoyed a period of unusual pros¬ perity under the stimulating influence of Osier, Ross, and Shepherd. For many years he was one of the editors of the Montreal Medical Journal and contributed a surgical retrospect for each number that was critical, instructive, and interesting. These retrospects were afterward published in book form. Copyright, 1930, by Surgical Pub. Co. of Chicago
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