Maudie: the life and times of McGill's Maude Abbott.

Abstract

This article is an account of the life of Dr. Maude Abbott, the turn-of-the-century Canadian pioneer physician who founded what is now the International Academy of Pathology. She developed a system for the classification of medical museum specimens, accumulated the world's largest collection of congenital heart disease cases, and published historical works outside the field of medicine. A protegée and friend of Sir William Osler, she was guided by his counsel and inspired by his example. With Osler and Banting, she was one of the giants of Canadian medicine in the first half of the 20th century.