• My beginnings
• Freedom?
• Liberation?
• The eskadron
• Refugees in the west
• Early days in London, Ontario
• Community service far and wide
• I believe in miracles.

The daunting adversities faced by a Belarusian refugee who found himself at the crossroads of history and geography.
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• FAMILY ALBUM PART I * THE WARD 1 Born at the Dawn of Hard Times-- 2 Justice and Injustice-- 3 The Fortunate Disaster-- 4 My Second Encounter with Death-- 5 Lessons about Money-- 6 My One and Only Hunting Lesson-- 7 My Mother and My Feet PART I I * UPHILL ALL THE WAY 8 Jackhammers and Pancakes-- 9 Love Walks In-- 10 Formaldehyde and Faux Pas-- 11 My Money Mission-- 12 A Year in "the San" PART I I I * DR VALERIOTE 13 My Year before the Mast-- 14 Following the Sun.
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Alice Street recounts how Valeriote was born at the sunset of good times and the dawn of hard ones. His mother's fifteenth child, he grew up in an Italian Catholic family on a street full of proud families with a multitude of languages and backgrounds. From being packed into the local church, to working and borrowing his way through medical school at McGill while surviving several severe illnesses, to his very successful career as a doctor in California, his story is entwined with those of everyone from foundry workers to foreign ambassadors. A warm and informative look at the challenging journey made by so many, Alice Street is a testament to the strength and character needed to make it through tumultuous times.
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In the early years of the twentieth century medical research in Canada was the job of a select few. By mid-century it had grown into a systematic, large-scale venture that involved teams of professional scientists and dozens of laboratories in universities, government, and industry. J.B. Collip - skilled both as a bench scientist and an entrepreneur - played a leading role in this transformation. In J.B. Collip and the Development of Medical Research in Canada Alison Li details how Collip leapt into prominence in 1921-22 as part of the team at the University of Toronto that isolated insulin. When the Nobel Prize was awarded to Frederick Banting and J.J.R. Macleod in 1923, Banting announced he was sharing his award with Charles Best; Macleod in turn announced he was sharing his award with Collip. Collip was known for his remarkable skills in making hormone extracts, many of which proved to have therapeutic, and therefore commercial, value. At McGill University in the 1930s he headed a thriving research group that carried out investigations of the pituitary and sex hormones, including development of one of the first orally active estrogen products. Collip's story sheds light on early negotiations between academic science and the pharmaceutical industry and on the complexities of sustaining a research laboratory before the rise of government funding. As the head of the National Research Council's medical research division during its formative years, Collip helped shape the foundations of organized support for medical research in Canada.
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• Preface: On Doing an Osler Autopsy; 1 English Gentlemen with American Energy; 2 Learning to See: Student Years; 3 The Baby Professor; 4 The Best Men: Philadelphia; 5 Starting at Johns Hopkins; 6 We All Worship Him; Illustrations; 7 The Great American Doctor; 8 Leaving America; 9 A Delightful Life and Place; 10 Sir William; 11 All the Youth and Glory of the Country; 12 Never Use a Crutch; 13 Osler's Afterlife; Notes and Sources; Acknowledgments; Illustration Credits; Index.

William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught, and wrote about medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as Regius Professor at Oxford. At the time of his death in England in 1919, many considered him to be the greatest doctor in the world. Osler, who was a brilliant, innovative teacher and a scholar of the natural history of disease, revolutionized the art of practicing medicine at the bedside of his patients. He was idolized by two generations of medical students and practitioners for whom he came to personify the ideal doctor. But much more than a physician, Osler was a supremely intelligent humanist. In both his writings and his personal life, and through the prism of the tragedy of the Great War, he embodied the art of living. It was perhaps his legendary compassion that elevated his healing talents to an art form and attracted to his private practice students, colleagues, poets (Walt Whitman for example) politicians, royalty, and nameless ordinary people with extraordinary conditions. William Osler's life lucidly illuminates the times in which he lived. Indeed, this is a book not only about the evolution of modern medicine, the training of doctors, holism in medical thought, and the doctor-patient relationship, but also about humanism, Victorianism, the Great War, and much else. Meticulously researched, drawing on many new sources and offering new interpretations, William Osler: A Life in Medicine brings to life both a fascinating man and the formative age of twentieth-century medicine. It is a classic biography of a classic life, both authoritative and highly readable.
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• ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 A Scotsman Settles in Prince Edward Island""; ""2 Social, Family, and Professional Life in Charlottetown""; ""3 Health and Illness in Nineteenth-Century Prince Edward Island: Mackieson's Practice in Medicine""; ""4 A Nineteenth-Century Surgical Practice""; ""5 The Perils of Childbearing in the Nineteenth Century: Mackieson and Obstetrical Care""; ""6 Ministering to a ""Mind Diseased"": Mackieson, the Charlottetown Lunatic Asylum, and the Treatment of Mental Illness""; ""7 Coda: Portrait of an Island Doctor""

• ""Appendix A: Chronological Outline of Mackieson's Career""""Appendix B: The Formulary: Therapeutic Agents""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

"Dr. John Mackieson practiced medicine in Prince Edward Island from 1821 to 1885. Island Doctor offers an intimate look at the work of this "ordinary" physician and a fascinating glimpse of the practice of medicine in the nineteenth century. Using two of Mackieson's casebooks, which include records for 257 patients with a variety of illnesses seen from 1826 to 1858 and 115 patients with mental illness seen from 1868 to 1874, as well as two manuscripts and his diary, David Shephard illustrates the wide variety of representative cases in Mackieson's career and situates his work in the context of medical practice at the time."--Jacket.

In the early years of the twentieth century medical research in Canada was the job of a select few. By mid-century it had grown into a systematic, large-scale venture that involved teams of professional scientists and dozens of laboratories in universities, government, and industry. J.B. Collip - skilled both as a bench scientist and an entrepreneur - played a leading role in this transformation. In J.B. Collip and the Development of Medical Research in Canada Alison Li details how Collip leapt into prominence in 1921-22 as part of the team at the University of Toronto that isolated insulin. When the Nobel Prize was awarded to Frederick Banting and J.J.R. Macleod in 1923, Banting announced he was sharing his award with Charles Best; Macleod in turn announced he was sharing his award with Collip. Collip was known for his remarkable skills in making hormone extracts, many of which proved to have therapeutic, and therefore commercial, value. At McGill University in the 1930s he headed a thriving research group that carried out investigations of the pituitary and sex hormones, including development of one of the first orally active estrogen products. Collip's story sheds light on early negotiations between academic science and the pharmaceutical industry and on the complexities of sustaining a research laboratory before the rise of government funding. As the head of the National Research Council's medical research division during its formative years, Collip helped shape the foundations of organized support for medical research in Canada.
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