Maude Abbott
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| Born | Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott (1869-03-18)March 18, 1869 St. Andrews East, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | September 2, 1940(1940-09-02) (aged 71) Montreal, Quebec |
| Alma mater | McGill University |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Known for | Expert on congenital heart disease |
Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott (March 18, 1869 – September 2, 1940) was a Canadian physician, among Canada's earliest female medical graduates, and an internationally known expert on congenital heart disease.[1] She was one of the first women to obtain a BA from McGill University.[2]
Contents
1 Biography
2 Accolades
3 Legacy
4 Bibliography
5 See also
6 References
7 Further reading
8 External links
Biography
In 1869, Abbot was born in St. Andrews East, Quebec as Maude Elizabeth Seymour Babin. Both of her parents were absent during infancy,[3] as her mother had died and her father had abandoned her.[2] With her sister Alice,[3] she was legally adopted and raised by her maternal grandmother, Mrs. William Abbott, who was then 62.[4] She was a cousin of John Abbott, Canada's third Prime Minister.[5]
In 1885, she graduated from a private Montreal seminary[4] high school.[5]
Abbott was admitted to McGill University's Faculty of Arts, with a scholarship,[5] even though she had previously been rejected.[6] and received her B.A in 1890. In 1894, she received her M.D., C.M. from Bishop's University with honours, and the only woman in her class. She received the Chancellor’s Prize, and Senior Anatomy Prize for having the best final examination.[7] Later that year, she opened her own practice in Montreal, worked with the Royal Victoria hospital, and was nominated and elected as the Montreal Medico-Chirurgical Society's first female member.[4] Some time afterwards, she did her post-graduate medical studies in Vienna.[5][8]
In 1897, she opened an independent clinic dedicated to treating women and children. There she did much first-hand research in pathology.[3] Much of Abbott's work concerned the nature of heart disease, especially in newborn babies.[5] This would cause her to be recognized as a world authority on heart defects.[8]
In 1898, she was appointed Assistant Curator at the McGill Pathological Museum, becoming curator 1901.[9]
In 1905,[4] she was invited to write the chapter on 'Congenital Heart Disease' for Dr. Osler's System of Modern Medicine.[5] He declared it "the best thing he had ever read on the subject."[9] The article would place her as the world authority in the field of congenital heart disease.[4]
In 1906, she co-founded the International Association of Medical Museums, with Dr. William Osler.[2] She became its international secretary in 1907. She would edit the institutions articles for thirty-one years (1907-1938).[9]
In 1910, Abbott was awarded an honorary medical degree from McGill and was made a Lecturer in Pathology; this was eight years prior to the university admitting female students to the Faculty of Medicine.[5] After a much conflict with Dr. Horst Oërtel, she left McGill to take up a position at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1923.[10] In 1925, Abbott returned to McGill becoming an Assistant Professor.[11]
In 1924, she was a founder of the Federation of Medical Women of Canada, a Canadian organization committed to the professional, social and personal advancement of women physicians.[2]
In 1936, she wrote the Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease.[2] The work illustrated a new classification system and described records of over a thousand cases of clinical and postmortem records.[4] The same year she retired from her professorial position.
On 2 September 1940, Abbott died due a brain hemorrhage, in Montreal.[5]
Accolades
- Chancellor’s Prize, 1894.
- Senior Anatomy Prize, 1894.
- Lord Stanley Gold Medal, 1890.[5]
- McGill class valedictorian, 1890.[4]
Legacy
In 1943, Diego Rivera painted her in his mural for the National Institute of Cardiology of Mexico City. She was the only Canadian, and the only woman depicted in the work.[4]
In 1958, the International Academy of Pathology established the 'Maude Abbott Lecture'.[4]
In 1993, she was named a "Historic Person" by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada and a plaque was erected outside the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building at McGill University in Montreal.[12]
In 1994, she was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.[13] In 2000, a bronze plaque was erected in her honour on the McIntyre Medical Building. In the same year, Canada Post issued a forty-six cent postage stamp entitled The Heart of the Matter in her honour.[7]
Bibliography
Abbott was a prolific writer, composing over 140 papers and books.[Note 1] She also gave countless lectures. Her body of work includes:
The Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease (Originally published in New York by the American Heart Association in 1936. A reprint was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2006 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the International Academy of Pathology." (.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
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Abbott, Maude (1900). Pigmentation-cirrhosis in a case of Haemochromatosis. Transactions of the Pathological Society of London. Volumes 51-52. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 66–85.
An Historical Sketch of the Medical Faculty of McGill University. 1902.
Abbott, Maude E. (1903). "On the Classification of Museum Specimens". American Medicine. V (14): 541–544.
Abbott, Maude E. (March 25, 1905). "The Museum in Medical Teaching". Journal of the American Medical Association. XLIV (12): 935–939. doi:10.1001/jama.1905.92500390019001d. (Subscription required (help)).
Abbott, Maude (1908), "Chapter IX: Congenital cardiac disease", in Osler, William, Modern Medicine: Its Theory and Practice, IV: Diseases of the circulatory system; diseases of the blood; diseases of the spleen, thymus, and lymph-glands, Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Febiger
Abbott, Maude E. (June 1918). "The determination of basal metabolism by the "Respiratory-valve and spirometer method" of indirect calorimetry, with an observation on a case of polycythemia with splenomegaly" (PDF). Canadian Medical Association Journal. 8 (6): 491–509. PMC 1585182. PMID 20311108.
Abbott, Maude E. (1916). Florence Nightingale as seen in her portraits (reprint ed.). Boston: Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
Abbott, Maude, BA, MD (1921). McGill's Heroic Past, 1821-1921: An Historic Outline of the University from Its Origin to the Present Time. McGill University Press.
Abbott, M. E.; Meakins, J. C. (1915). "On the differentiation of two forms of congenital dextrocardia". Bulletin of the International Association of Medical Museums. 5: 134–138.
"An early Canadian biologist, Michel Sarrazin (1659–1735))—His life and times". In: Can Med Assoc J. 1928 Nov; 19(5): 600–607, p. 600–607—A review of Arthur Vallée's "Un biologiste canadien, Michel Sarrazin (1659–1739). Sa vie, ses travaux, et son temps"
See also
- Pathology
- List of pathologists
References
Notes
^ Laurtenian Heritage WebMagazine cites it as over 100, while Library and Archives Canada suggests over 140.
Citations
^ "Dr. Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott". The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on April 15, 2012. Retrieved March 23, 2005.
^ abcde "Maude Abbott". Maude Abbott Memorial Museum. McGill University. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
^ abc "Maude Abbott". Canadian Heroes. February 18, 2011. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
^ abcdefghi "Maude Abbott". Collections Canada. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
^ abcdefghi "Dr. Maude Abbott (1869-1940), Pioneer Woman Doctor". Laurentian Heritage Magazine. Retrieved December 31, 2012.
^ Uglow, Jennifer (2005). The Palgrave Macmillan dictionary of women's biography. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403934482.
^ ab Rosenhek, Jackie (August 2008). "The Queen of Canadian cardiology". Doctor's Review. Retrieved December 31, 2012.
^ ab "Dr. Maude Abbott". Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. Canada Medical Association. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
^ abc Gillett, Margaret (March 24, 2008). "Maude Abbott". The Canadian Encyclopedia (online ed.). Historica Canada. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
^ "History". Maude Abbott Medical Museum. McGill University. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
^ "Maude Abbott". Canadian Science and Technology Museum. Archived from the original on February 2, 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
^ Abbott, Maude Elizabeth Seymour National Historic Person. Directory of Federal Heritage Designations. Parks Canada.
^ "Maude Abbott". MAUDE Unit. 2007. Retrieved December 31, 2012.
Further reading
Abbott, Elizabeth (1997). All Heart: Notes on the Life of Dr. Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott MD, Pioneer Woman Doctor and Cardiologist. ISBN 978-0-92137-010-9.
Adams, Annmarie (September 27, 2018). "Encountering Maude Abbott". Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics. 2 (2). doi:10.20897/femenc/3889.
Gillett, Margaret (1981). We Walked Very Warily: A History of Women at McGill. Eden Press Women's Publications. ISBN 978-0-92079-208-7.
Wright, James R.; Fraser, Richard; Adams, Annmarie; Hunter, Mary (February 21, 2017). "Portraying Maude Abbott". CMAJ. 189 (7): E281–E283. doi:10.1503/cmaj.160976.
External links
- Video on Maude Abbott by the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
Maude Abbott Collection at the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, Montreal.
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