MARGARET GILLETT
Canadian Encyclopedia
01-01-2002
Abbott, Maude Elizabeth Seymour

Author: MARGARET GILLETT

Abbott, Maude Elizabeth Seymour , pathologist (b at St Andrews East [St-Andr-Est], Qu 18 Mar 1869; d at Montral 2 Sept 1940). Though she graduated in arts from McGill (1890), she was barred from medicine because of her sex, so she earned Bishop's CM, MD (1894); ironically McGill awarded her MD, CM ( honoris causa , 1910) also LLD (1936). As assistant curator, McGill Medical Museum (1898), and curator (1901), she introduced the use of the museum in teaching pathology.

A disciple of WilliamOSLER , she contributed to his text Modern Medicine (1908) the ...

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