Maude Abbott

Maude Abbott
Born	Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott March 18, 1869(1869-03-18) St. Andrews East, Quebec
Died	September 2, 1940(1940-09-02) (aged 71) Montreal, Quebec
Occupation	Physician
Known for	Expert on congenital heart disease

Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott (March 18, 1869 – September 2, 1940) was a Canadian doctor and was one of Canada's earliest female medical graduates and an expert on congenital heart disease.

Born in St. Andrews East, Quebec as Maude Elizabeth Seymour Babin, she was raised by her maternal grandmother, Mrs. William Abbott, who enventually legally adopted her along with her older sister Alice. She was a cousin of John Abbott, Canada's third Prime Minister. She was part of the third class of women students admitted to McGill University's Faculty of Arts. She received her B.A in 1890 along with two other notable women; Elizabeth Binmore and Carrie Matilda Derick. She received her M.D from Bishop's University in 1894 and was the only woman in her class. She did post graduate study in medicine at Zurich, Vienna, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Returning to Montreal she was appointed assistant curator at the McGill Pathological Museum in 1899, becoming curator 1901.

She was awarded an honorary medical degree in 1910 from McGill and was made a Lecturer in Pathology. She became an Assistant Professor in 1925.

She helped to found the Federation of Medical Women of Canada, a Canadian organization committed to the professional, social and personal advancement of women physicians, in 1924.

She was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 1994. In 2000 Canada Post issued a forty-six cent postage stamp entitled The Heart of the Matter in her honour.

She wrote over 140 papers and books. Some of them include:

• The Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease
• Pigmentation-cirrhosis in a case of Haemochromatosis
• An Historical Sketch of the Medical Faculty of McGill University
• On the Classification of Museum Specimens-American Medicine
• The Museum in Medical Teaching
• Congenital Cardiac Disease, Chapter IX in Osler's Modern Medicine^[1]
• The Determination of Basal Metabolism by Indirect Calorimetry
• Florence Nightingale as seen in her portraits
• McGill's Heroic Past
• On the differentiation of two forms of congenital dextrocardia^[2]

References

1. ^ 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, http://books.google.com/books?id=GJkGbxF1X5MC&pg=PA323 
2. ^ M. E. Abbott and J. C. Meakins (1915). "On the differentiation of two forms of congenital dextrocardia". Bulletin of the International Association of Medical Museums (5): 134–138. http://books.google.com/books?id=KKK4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA134. 

References

• "Dr. Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott". The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Medicentre/en/abbo_print.htm. Retrieved March 23, 2005. 
• "Miss Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott, M.D.". The Quebec History Encyclopedia. http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/encyclopedia/abbottmaudeelizabeth.htm. Retrieved March 23, 2005. 
• "Maude Abbott". Library and Archives Canada. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/women/002026-401-e.html. Retrieved March 23, 2005. 

External links

• Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott at The Canadian Encyclopedia

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Name	Abbott, Maude
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Date of birth	March 18, 1869
Place of birth	St. Andrews East, Quebec
Date of death	September 2, 1940
Place of death	Montreal, Quebec