OSLER LIBRARY NEWSLETTERMcGill University, Montreal, Canada No. 59-October 1988

Notes Towards a Biographyof Dr. William Henry Drummond

ho merits a biography?Not an easy question toanswer. It will be readilyagreed, however, that few

~, persons' achievements or.,1 personalities can hold a, reader's interest for two

or three hundred pagesnot to speak of the multi-volume 'Lives' thatare now popular. Then there is the matter ofbiographical "material", those essential pri-mary and secondary sources which makebiography possible. Equally vital, the writerprepared to spend the countless hours re-quired by the project and the enterprisingpublisher willing to commission it.

The significance of Dr. William HenryDrummond's poetry is arguable. Dialectverse has fallen out of favour but MargaretAtwood,l editor of The New Oxford Book ofCanadian Verse, believes that he "deserves re-evaluation" and it is well to remember thatwithin a decade of its first appearance 65,000copies of The Habitant and Other French-Ca-nadian Poems were published, no meanachievement.

His widow's biographical sketch2 pub-lished in The Great Fight (1908) provided theoutline of her husband's career on whichothers who have written about him have re-lied.3 Much additional material contained ina tin trunk measuring 301/2" x 16" x 12" wasloaned to the Osler Library on 26 April 1948by Moira Drummond Craig, wife of Sur-geon-Commander D. D. Craig, RN. The lat-ter donated the papers permanently on 8May 1968. A brief inventory had meanwhilebeen made by Dr. W. W. Francis and a com-plete listing was completed by MarilynFransiszyn. But the papers have been slowto attract the attention of would-be biogra-phers. D. J. O'Donoghue's The Poets of Ire-land4 introduced me to Drummond manyyears ago and I included the poet of the habi-tant and voyageur in my Brief Lives of IrishDoctors5 (1978). A short visit to the Osler li-brary in the fall of 1987 enabled me to spenda few days "skimming" through the contentsof the "tin trunk", now re-arranged in elevenboxes and sundry folios. My determinationto look at these papers - the building brickswith which a biography might be assembled- on a more leisurely occasion was facilitatedby my election as Osler Library Fellow for1988.

I spent May 1988 in Montreal. The ardu-ous journey from my home in Ireland whichthe Drummond family endured over severalweeks in 1864 was completed by air in somehours. Their quarters in one of the poorerstreets of a city just beginning to grow wouldhave compared unfavourably with my com-fortable apartment hotel on Boulevard deMaisonneuve in a vibrant city which has cer-tainly lost whatever innocence it may oncehave possessed.

Summer's arrival was late in 1988 butMontreal's bare trees gradually gained greenmantles while cloudy skies made it moretolerable to sit at a desk hour after hour(Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) albeit thedesk was Sir William Osler's desk and thegracious background the Osler Library. Not,indeed, that 5 p.m. saw the end of my brows-ing for additional information was availablein the nearby McLennan Library.

William Henry Drummond: a portrait medallion by R.

Tait McKenzie, now in Montreal General Hospital.

When George Drummond died withineighteen months of his arrival in Montrealhe left a widow determined to rear her four

sons without her relatives' grudging sup-port. William, the eldest son, saw the needto assist his mother and in his early teens hebecame a telegrapher at a lumber camp inthe forest north of Montreal where, atl' Abord-a-Plouffe he met habitant farmerswho spoke French but must have remindedhim of the smallholders he had known inIreland.

The leading article in this issue is by J.B.Lyons who was an Osler Library Fellowin May 1988. A brief note on Dr. Lyonsappeared on page 2 of the June 1988Osler Library Newsletter under the title"Osler Library Fellows for 1988." Hespent the greater part of his month hereexamining the Drummond paperswhich, as he describes, came to theOsler Library in 1948 in a tin trunk.They have not previously been used ina "full-scale" biography of WilliamHenry Drummond which Dr. Lyonshopes to undertake.

Bord a Plouffe, Bord a Plouffe,W' at do I hear w' en I dream of you?Too many t'ing for sleepin' well!De song of de ole tam cariole bell,De voice of dat girl from Sainte Angele(I geev her a ring was mark "fidele")Dat's w'at I hear."He also encountered raftsmen who ran

the rapids in dare-devil fashion, colourfulmen with rings in their ears, fond of songssuch as "En Roulant Ma Boule", "Dans IePrison de Nantes" and "Par Derriere Chezma Tante". These men of French, Scottishand Irish origin, the fabled voyageurs of theCanadian wilds, fascinated him. Some ofthem had gone with Wolseley to the RedRiver in 1870 to quell the Riel insurrectionand later were with him on the Nile expedi-tion of 1885. He spent his leisure hours rec-ording their stories in verses scribbled on thebacks of telegraph forms.

As soon as Drummond's brothers couldcontribute to the family budget he returnedto Montreal High School as a mature studentand thence in 1877 to the medical school atMcGill where his teachers included RobertPalmer Howard and the young WilliamOsler. When Drummond flunked at McGillhe enrolled at the rival school, Bishop'sMedical College, and graduated in 1884.7After a period in the Eastern Townships, Dr.Drummond settled in Montreal where hebuilt up a large practice and held a chair inmedical jurisprudence at Bishop's MedicalCollege.

A powerfully-built, genial and ex-troverted man with a genius for friendship,Drummond was an "out-door type",devoted to fishing and shooting. After theday's sport he was a source of fun aroundthe camp fire with endless recitations of his

The initial letter on this page is from a set used in England about 1880 and is reproduced here from Alexander Nesbitt (ed.) Decorativealphabets and initials, Dover PublicationsInc., 1959.

own poems composed in the patois of thehabitant farmers. Back in Montreal he spenthis evenings with male friends, tippling alittle no doubt and devoted to the ingestionof oysters. He seemed an instinctive bache-lor until he met May Isobel Harvey, a doc-tor's daughter from Jamaica, when it waslove at first sight. They married in 1894 andlived at 349 Mountain Street, a house whichlacked a bathroom and was reputed to behaunted by the ghost of Jefferson Davis.

May Drummond had literary ambitionsand was amazed that her husband shouldtreat his own gift so lightly. She set aboutcollecting his verses but could find only five,"The Wreck of the 'Julie Plante' - A Legendof Lac St. Pierre", "M'sieu Smit", "Memories","Mon Choual 'Castor'" and "De PapineauGun". As he wrote others (1895 and 1896were productive years) she copied them intoa notebook "too big for any man's pocket"and waited until she had enough to fill abook. Then with the assistance of herbrother-in-law, Torn Drummond, she ar-ranged for their publication by Putnams ofNew York. Their success increased the de-mand for Drummond as an after-dinnerspeaker, reciter and reader and led to a con-flict between medicine and literature whichwas resolved in favour of the latter.

The Habitant and Other French-CanadianPoems with an introduction by Louis Fre-chette8 and illustrated by Frederick Sim-pson Coburn9 carne out in November 1897,a substantial octavo volume handsomelybound in green cloth with gold lettering. Itcontained twenty-three poems, the five al-ready mentioned and others such as "LeVieux Temps" and "Ole Tarn on Bord aPlouffe" .

Drummond's verses introduced a varietyof appealing types:

- the contented habitant farmer:

An' some cole winter night how I wishyou can see us,

W'en I smoke on de pipe, an' de olewoman sew

By de stove of T' re~ Reever - ma wife'sfader geev her

On 9-ay we get marry, dat's long tarnagolO

- the nubile village beauty, "De Nice LeetleCanadienne":

0 she's quick an' she's smart, an' gotplaintee heart,

H you know correc' way go about,An' if you don't know, she soon tole you

so

Den tak' de firs' chance an' get out;But if she love you, I spik it for true,She will mak' it more beautiful den,An' sun on de sky can't shine lak de eyeOf dat nice leetle Canadiennell

- the proverbially wise country doctor, "OleDocteur Fiset":

Let her rain or snow, all he want to knowIs jus' if anywan 's feelin' sick,For Docteur Fiset's de ole fashion kin'Doin' good was de only t'ing on hees min'So he got no use for de politique.

An' he's careful too, 'cos firs' ring he doFor fear dere was danger some fever case,Is tak' w' en he's corne leetle w'isky

chaud,Den 'noder wan too jus' before he go,He's so scare carry fever aroun' de

place!12

The ballads included "Phil-o-rumJuneau" based on a legend of "La ChasseGallerie" current in French-speaking Cana-da, which held that on New Year's Day thevoyageurs and coureurs de bois who hadperished in the wilderness carne back inmid-air through snowstorm and hurricaneto kiss the girls and visit their folk, and"Maxime La Belle", a voyageur's descriptionof the Nile expedition and of Queen Victo-ria's request for recruits:

An' so she's write Joseph Mercier, he'sstop on Trois Rivieres -

"Please corne right off, an' bring wit' youfree honder voyageurs.

"I got de plaintee sojer, me, beeg feller sixfoot tall -

Dat 's Englishman, an Scotch also, don'twear no pant at all;

Of course, de Irishman's de bes', raise allde row he can,

But noboddy can pull batteau lak goodCanadian man.,,13

The book was successful. The first editionsold out within days. Putnams had a bestsel-ler on their hands. The Habitant was re-printed in November and twice inDecember 1897; it would be reprinted againin July and October 1898 and the demandcontinued so as to necessitate two reprint-ings in December 1898.

The Drummonds had moved in 1897 to alarger house on the corner of Mountain andSt. Catherine Streets. Their phone was busywith congratulatory calls in those whiteweeks before Christmas and on the eveningof December 23rd the poet was the guest ofhonour at a supper in the St. James's Clubarranged by some thirty of his medical col-leagues.

Sir William Hingston, a leading Montrealsurgeon, proposed the toast to their guest.Replying, Drummond said that the medicalman is a specialist in the analysis of all thatis human and if he, in his painting of types,in his delineation of human weaknesses,passions and foibles had gained his col-leagues' applause he felt satisfied that hiswork had been well done.

His engagements took him across Canadain the summer of 1901 and on September 1sthe wrote to his wife from the Hotel Van-couver: "I carne, I saw, and was conquered."Accustomed to eastern landscapes, he wasfascinated by the wheat-lands of Manitobaand astounded by British Columbia's in-comparable mountains. From the train hehad also seen "thousands of cattle dottingthe vast plain; here and there a wanderingband of Indians (wild ones), and Thursdayevening at sunset a regular Western pictureof the Remington type."14

JohnnieCourteauand Other Poems (1901)and The Voyageur and Other Poems (1905) in-

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creased Drummond's literary celebrity butwhen his brothers added- mining to theirother successful business ventures he under-took the medical care of the miners at KerrLake, Cobalt, Ontario, and travelled fre-quently between Montreal and the miningcamp. An outbreak of smallpox had kepthim there over Easter 1907 when he wasstricken by a cerebral haemorrhage fromwhich he died without regaining conscious-ness on 6 April 1907. He was survived by hiswidow and two children, Barclay15 andMoira.

His remains arrived in Montreal at 9:30a.m. on April 8th and were taken to St.George's Church through a blinding snow-storm. The interment in Mount Royal Ce-metery took place in the afternoon. Themessages of condolence received includedthat of Pauline Johnson, the Mohawk Indianpoet: "He has crossed the last portage and toCanada's great loss of her most gifted sonwe add our own."

Family responsibilities, medical practice,the lakes and rivers of the Canadian wilder-ness, the triumphs of literary consummation- these, with the "laughter and the love offriends" so prized by Hilaire Belloc - werethe ingredients of William Henry Drum-mond's life.

Can colour and narrative drive be addedto my outline of his career? I believe theycan. Does the material in the tin trunk pro-vide justification for a full-scale biography?I believe it does.

Like many of his generation, Drummondwas a tireless correspondent. The Drum-mond papers hold many of his letters to hiswife and a few of hers in their courtshipdays. His literary associates included LouisFre' chette, Archibald Lampman, ThomasO'Hagan, Duncan Campbell Scott andothers. Lampman, who suffered from rheu-matic heart disease, wrote to Drummond on30 December 1898: "I still move about like anoctogenarian - am neither better nor worse.One may be thankful I suppose for not beingthe latter." "Poor Lampman died Thursdaylast!" Drummond informed his wife in Fe-bruary 1899. 'Two days illness - "

A presentation copy of The Voyageur wasacknowledged by the President of theUnited States writing from Oyster Bay, NewYork, on 5 September 1905:

My dear Dr. Drummond:It was most kind of you to send me the

volume of poems and I shall read them withpleasure, I am sure. I shall always rememberthe all too brief visit you paid us when I wasgovernor.

With many thanks,Sincerely yours,Theodore Roosevelt.16

The director of a New York lecture bureaubecame one of Drummond's warmest ad-mirers. His friendly letters gave the doctordetails of his agonizing "rheumatism" - ac-tually a classic account of tabes dorsalis, aninexorable nervous disorder. "An ulcer hasdeveloped on the ball of my right foot andmy doctor has been trying to find out if gan-

grene has started. I don't think so. Oh thepain. The awful pain. The centre of it is myright heel.,,17

W. H. Parker, the general manager (or"Commodore") of the Laurentian Club at Lacla Peche, was one of Drummond's closestfriends. They corresponded over many yearsand on 28 March 1907 Drummond wrote tohim from the mining camp: "We are quaran-tined here owing to one or two cases of smallpox which have developed in the 10-

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On March 31st, the day before he wastaken ill, Drummond wrote to his oldKnowlton friend, Judge S. W. Foster:

From far off wild TemagamiLand of the silver gnomeMy warmest greetings go to theeAmong the hills of Brome.19

The lilacs were in bloom when Mr. Do-nald K. Roy, Manager of the Mount RoyalCemetery Company, directed me to theDrummond family plot, a green area domi-nated by an impressive Celtic Cross sacredto the memory of George Drummond, died13 November 1865, aged 53 years, and Eli-zabeth Morris Soden, his wife, died 17 May1906, aged 83 years.

"The shadows pass - I see the light / 0Morning Light how clear and strong" - thelines are by William Henry Drummond whobefore a year had passed was laid to theright of his mother. His brothers joined themin due course with that inevitability fromwhich there is no redress: John James Drum-mond (1856-1917); George Edward Drum-mond (1858-1919); Thomas JosephDrummond (1860-1916).

I had already visited Mohill, the smallcruciform town in County Leitrim whereWilliam Henry Drummond was born on 13April 1854, and Tawley the townland over-looking Donegal Bay where his early yearswere spent close to the barracks of the RoyalIrish Constabulary to which his father wasposted. Springs of life, vital and pure, in theWest of Ireland; a last resting place in Cana-da high on Mount Royal; and meanwhile,after the desolation of emigration, a fulfill-ment in medicine and the arts retraceable inthe tin trunk's assorted papers. WilliamHenry Drummond's biography will beworth undertaking if a publisher's interestcan be recruited.

Notes

1 Margaret Atwood, Introduction to The NewOxford Bookof CanadianVerse(Toronto:Ox-ford University Press, 1983): xxxiv.

2 May Isobel Drummond in The GreatFight byWilliam Henry Drummond. (New York: Put-nam's, 1908): 3-48. Mrs Drummond died on12 December 1939.

3 R. H. Craig, Dalhousie Review, 5, 161-169,1925; W. J.McNally, CMAJ, 47, 280-283, 1942;W. E. Swinton, Ibid, 114,265-266, 1976.

4 D. J. O'Donoghue, ThePoetsof Ireland.(Du-blin: Figgis, n.d.; reprinted New York:Johnson, 1970): 123.

5 J. B. Lyons, BriefLives of Irish Doctors. (Du-

blin: Blackwater Press, 1978): 124-125.6 The PoeticalWorksof WilliamHenry Drum-

mond. (New York: Putnam's, 1912): 229.7 E. H. Bensley, Bishop's Medical College.

CMAJ, 72, 463-465,1955.8. Louis Frechette (1839-1908) was the unoffi-

cial poet laureate of French Canada.9 F. S. Coburn (1871-1960) studied art in New

York and Europe becoming RCA in 1927; hispaintings hang in the National Gallery ofCanada.

10WilliamHenry Drummond, TheHabitantandOther French-CanadianPoems.(New York:Putnam's, 1897): 4.

11 Ibid, 32.12 Ibid, 119.13 Ibid, 42.14 Frederic Remington (1861-1909), a master in

the depiction of horses in motion and west-ern scenes visited the Drummonds in Mon-treal in 1899.

15 Charles Barclay Drummond died on 29 July1933.

16 Drummond Papers, Osler Library.17 Ibid.18 Ibid.19 Ibid.

J. B. LyonsProfessor of the History of Medicine,Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Osler Day

TheOslerLibraryNewsletterforJune 1988con-tained an announcement that Osler Day -1988 will be held on November 2nd with Dr.Lewis Thomas as Osler Lecturer. Dr. Thomashas been obliged to cancel his engagement asOsler Lecturer on November 2nd. Osler Dayhas therefore been postponed until April1989; further details will be available in thenew year.

Fridays at Four in the Osler Library

"Fridays at Four in the Osler Library" is thetitle of a new series of informal talks about thehistory of science and medicine to bepresented by Dr. Faith Wallis, History of Me-dicine Librarian. As the title suggests, thetalks will be given at 4 p.m. on Friday after-noons, a time when medical students, teach-ing staff and the community at large, drainedby a hard week's work, may appreciate somemental refreshment and a change of intellec-tual pace. The talks are designed to focus onscientific and medical writers whose worksare richly represented in the Osler Library'scollections, and to give participants an op-portunity to examine these historic books atfirst hand. Everyone is welcome to attend.The dates and titles of this year's presenta-tions are as follows: October 28, "Looking atthe Body Through the Eyes of Leonardo daVinci"; November 25, "Looking at the BodyThrough the Eyes of Andreas Vesalius";January 27, "Renaissance EncyclopaedicMentalities: Athanasius Kircher"; February24, "Renaissance Encyclopaedic Mentalities:Robert Fludd"; March 31, "Renaissance Ency-clopaedic Mentalities: Ulisse Aldrovandi".

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Friends of The Osler Library:A Report and an Appeal

Were I to chose a single word to summarizemy experience of stewardship over the fundsdonated to the Osler Library by its Friendsduring the past year, that word would be"diversity". In my experience, 1987-1988 hasseen a greater variety of uses and projects forthe Friends fund than at any time in the past.The first and most important priority for thefund is, of course, collections, and ourFriends have contributed over $10,000 to ourbook budget over the year. This money hasbeen used to buy both current and historicworks, and to acquire new serial subscrip-tions. Probably the single most spectacularpurchase was the Regolamentodeiregi spedalidi SantaMaria Nuovoedi Bonifazioof Vincen-zo Chiarugi, printed in Florence in 1789.Chiarugi was a pioneer of modern psychia tryin Italy, and his description of the asylum ofSanta Maria Nuovo provides a wealth of de-tail concerning the organization of humanecare for fhe mentally ill. The volume is alsograced with extensive and very elegant archi-tectural plans. In making possible the ac-quisition of works such as this, the Friendsare contributing not only to the richness ofthe Osler Library, but to the intellectual life ofMcGill University; Chiarugi, for example,has already excited the interest of students inthe new graduate programme in architectu-ral history and theory, and of participants inthe history of psychiatry seminar.

The new Library bookplate, design and production ofwhich was funded by the Friends of the Osler Library

Collection-building is the Friends' tradi-tional concern, but this year has seen someimportant innovations in the Library's pro-grammes, innovations which were onlymade possible by the generosity of itsFriends. For example, this year the Libraryinitiated a policy of sponsoring visitingspeakers to give public lectures on the his-tory of medicine. Our first visitor was Prof.Jackie Pigeaud of the University of Nantes inFrance, a distinguished classicist and histo-rian of psychiatry, who spoke on "L'in-fluence de I'Antiquite sur les debuts de lapsychiatrie fran<;aise". We also hosted Prof.Dr. Gundolf Keil, director of the Institute forthe History of Medicine at the University ofWiirzburg in West Germany, who addressedan audience of medievalists, art historiansand historians of medicine on "Ortolf vonBaierlant (ca. 1250) and the Beginnings ofMedical Illustration". Honoraria for both

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speakers were provided by the Friends ofthe Osler Library.

The Friends have also contributed twoimportant pieces of equipment to the Li-brary this year. In conjunction with theMedical Library, we have purchased, usingFriends' funds, a microfilm-microfichereader-printer. The presence of this machinenot only permits students and researchers tomore readily exploit our extensive micro-form holdings, but also contributes to ourconservation efforts; many of the more im-portant Bibliotheca Osleriana books havebeen microfilmed, and now we can makecopies for readers from the film rather thanrunning the risks of photocopying. Our sec-ond purchase, a Kaiser copy-stand for 35mm cameras, will permit some of the workof making slides and photographs of ourbooks to be done in the Library; this is a con-venience for our users, and reduces the se-curity and conservation hazards of sendingbooks out for reproduction.

Apart from buying and preserving books,the Friends have also beautified them thisyear with a newly-redesigned bookplate, il-lustrated here. Friends' funds also providefor the printing of this Newsletter, and theyhelp the Library to meet a wide variety ofexpenses associated with collection-build-ing and our public programmes. Forexample, many of our rare books are pur-chased from Europe; the Friends cover thecosts of transatlantic telegrams and tele-phone calls that enable us to obtain uniqueitems before being pre-empted by Europeancollectors. The Friends' generosity enablesus to have books and archival collectionsprofessionally appraised, and helps withdozens of services and purchases which, ifnot always visible to our readers, nonethe-less make the difference for us betweenmere survival and positive growth.

With this issue of the OslerLibraryNews-letter, we launch our appeal to the Friends ofthe Osler Library for the 1988-1989 academicyear. Your support of the Library is vital toits development on every front, and wedeeply appreciate all that you make possiblefor us.

Faith Wallis

Osler Society of McGill University

Report for the Academic Year 1987-88

The Osler Society of McGill University wasfounded 67 years ago by four second yearmedical students. On a fall evening in 1920,they stood on the corner of Prince Arthur andUniversity Streets and, inspired by the writ-ings of Sir William Osler who had died justone year earlier, decided to organize a specialgroup of medical students. Such an "OslerSociety" would have regular meetings atwhich papers relating to Osler's historicalwritings and related subjects would bepresented.

To this day, the Society continues in atradition started in 1920 and later firmly es-tablished through the efforts of W.W. Fran-cis, the first Osler Librarian. In fact, the

fundamental structure and principles of theOsler Society have remained largely un-changed since its inception. Medical stu-dents continue to organize the presentationof papers, seminars, lectures and otherevents, striving to uphold Sir William's idealof a liberal education.

The 1987-88 year for the Society startedwith an introduction to the life of Sir WilliamOsler by Dr. Faith Wallis. Her command ofEnglish combined with an obvious enthusi-asm for the subject material made an excel-lent start to the new academic year. It wasalso a rare opportunity to view some of theOsler Library's treasures.

November 4th was Osler Day, the high-light in the Society's year of events. Dr.Robert Gale, internationally known for hisefforts to save many victims of radiationafter the Chernobyl disaster, was our OslerLecturer. He gave an informative and chal-lenging lecture entitled "The Medical Conse-quences of Nuclear Energy: Lessons fromChernobyl." Following the lecture, a "soldout" Osler Banquet was enjoyed by an en-thusiastic group of Oslerites who still havefun passing around Osler's Loving Cup.And few present will forget the "McGill Gas-tric Quartette's" rendition of "Our RegiusProf."

Our, December meeting was a treat forthose with an artistic bent. The dynamic Dr.Rigas Bertos, Chairman of McGill's Depart-ment of Art History, provided a lively eve-ning of art analysis, allowing ourimagination to flow freely as we dissectedTitian's "Presentation of the Virgin in theTemple."

In January, for the first time in a numberof years, the Society had a film night. Withbuttered popcorn and soda-drinks in handwe watched and discussed two NationalFilm Board films: "Bethune" and "Bitter Me-dicine: The Birth of Medicare". The Bethunefilm was a snapshot view of the life of oneof McGill's and Montreal's most colorfulpersonalities, Dr. Norman Bethune. The"Birth of Medicare" film was a fascinatingaccount of the early days of Canadian so-cialized medicine.

Our February meeting took us from thefilm screen to real life dramas. Dr. Yves Cler-mont presented a talk on "The past one hun-dred years in the Department of Anatomy."

Largely as a result of encouragementfrom our Honorary President, Dr. WilliamFeindel, the March meeting's format was areturn to the Society's original design of stu-dents presenting to students. This was a suc-cess, so much so that two such evenings areplanned for next year.

In April, Dr. Marilyn Li of the Children'sHospital of Eastern Ontario spoke to us con-cerning "Women in Medicine". She helpedus to recognize that, while many of the is-sues in medicine are of concern to both menand women, the latter have faced, and con-tinue to face unique challenges.

Our last Society meeting of the academicyear in May provided the forum for ourHonorary President to talk to us about "Pen-field, Osler and the MNI". Dr. Feindelbrought to life a remarkable part of our

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McGill medical heritage. He explained howPenfield's Montreal Neurological Institutewas indirectly linked to the influential writ-ings of Sir William himself.

The academic year 1987-88 was a goodone for the Society. Oslerites everywherewill be pleased to know that, sixty-sevenyears later, the Osler Society of McGillUniversity is alive and well!

David B. Clarke,President

N. Kevin Wade,Vice President

Fiona A. Donald,Secretary Treasurer

Osler Society,1987-1988

Legal Deposit 3/1988 ISSN 0085 - 4557Editorial Committee for the Newsletter:Edward H. Bensley, Honorary Osler li-brarian and Editor; Faith Wallis, Historyof Medicine Librarian and AssociateEditor; Lily Szczygiel, Editorial Assis-tant.