William Robertson Davies CC, FRSC, FRSL 1913 – 1995 was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor.
Robertson Davies wrote about homeopathy in The Cunning Man, The Salterton Trilogy (Tempest Tost), and The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks. Continue Reading »
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Harold Randall Griffith 1894 – 1985 was a Canadian anesthesiologist and a leader in the fields of anesthesiology, and he was the Chief of Anesthesia at the Homeopathic Hospital in Montreal, and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesia at McGill University.
For thirty years, Griffith was also the Medical Director of the Homeopathic Hospital which would become the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Montreal.
Griffith graduated from McGill University with an MD, CM, in 1922 and a doctorate of Homeopathic Medicine from Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1923.
in 1922, later became the first President of the Canadian Anaesthetist’s Society and the first elected president of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA).
On January 23, 1942 he used curare for the first time during anesthesia to produce muscle relaxation in human patients undergoing surgery. Continue Reading »
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Time Online “Founder Hahnemann was given his historic due by no less a personage than Sir William Osler. “No individual,” said Dr. Osler, “has done more good to the medical profession than Samuel Hahnemann.” Continue Reading »
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