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Segall, Harold N.

  • n 87131697
  • Person
  • 1897-1990

Born to a Jewish family in Jassy, Romania, on October 17, 1897, Harold Nathan Segall immigrated to Montreal with his family in 1900. Harold, his older brother Jack "Jerry" Segall (1894-1966), and his sister Jennie Segall Diner (1904-1988) were all educated in Montreal, and were raised to be fluent in their native Yiddish as well as Montreal's two dominant languages. Entering McGill medical school in 1915, Dr. Segall took five years to complete his basic medical training, serving for a year as a Royal Canadian Navy doctor on a merchant marine ship during the First World War. He graduated from McGill Medical School in 1920, after which he became a Demonstrator in Pathology at McGill and worked with Maude Abbott. Leaving Montreal in 1922 to obtain specialized training in the diseases of the heart in Boston, London, and Vienna, he returned to Montreal in 1926 as the city's first fully trained cardiologist. Starting his medical practice upon his return, Dr. Segall also accepted a junior post at McGill and launched one of Canada's first cardiac clinics at the Montreal General Hospital. He opened additional cardiac clinics at the Herzel Dispensary and the Women's General Hospital, in the late 1920s. As part of his practice, he not only saw patients in his office, but made regular house calls, being the first physician in Montreal to have a portable electrocardiograph (ECG), which he acquired in 1927. Also central to his practice and his teaching was the graphic means of depicting heart sounds and murmurs which he had invented in the 1930s and used throughout his career.

As a prominent Jewish doctor in Montreal during the 1920s and 1930s, Dr. Segall participated in the founding of the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, eventually becoming the hospital's Head of Cardiology. Giving lectures both at the hospital and McGill to students, interns, and practitioners, Dr. Segall acted as a McGill Assistant Professor of Medicine from 1949 until 1960. He was also an influential founding member of the Montreal Cardiac Society in 1946, the Canadian Heart Association in 1947, the Canadian Heart Foundation, the Quebec Heart Foundation, and the Quebec Association of Cardiologists. Indeed, Dr. Segall acted as president of the Canadian Heart Association, the Montreal Cardiac Society, and the Quebec Heart Foundation, as well as vice-president of the Canadian Heart Foundation.

Based in Montreal's neighbourhood of Côte-des-Neiges, Dr. Segall's family consisted of his wife, Dorothy Violet "Dolly" Caplin, whom he married in Montreal in 1934, as well as their two children, Carol Tova Segall (born 15 November 1934) and Jack Oba Segall (born 20 November 1936). Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the 1950s, Mrs. Segall was permanently hospitalized from 1968 until her death in 1983.

Throughout his career and into his retirement, Dr. Segall took a great interest in the history of medicine, particularly the history of cardiology and auscultation. In addition to his numerous published medical articles, he also wrote many works on the history of medicine, including numerous articles, pamphlets, and two books. Furthermore, he was a curator of McGill's Osler Library of the History of Medicine, an honourary member of McGill's Osler Society, and was often asked to speak on the history of his field.

Retiring in 1984, Dr. Segall remained active and involved in his community and his field throughout the 1980s and beyond. He died in 1990 in Montreal at the age of 92.

Seely, Henry M. (Henry Martyn), 1828-1917

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  • 1828-1917

Henry Martyn Seely was born on October 2, 1828, in South Onondaga, New York.

He was an educator. He received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1856. He taught at the Berkshire Medical Institute, where he received an M.D. in 1857, and at the University of Vermont. From 1861 to 1895, he was Professor of Chemistry, Natural History, and Geology at Middlebury College. In 1867-1868, he studied at Freiberg and Heidelberg, Germany. He contributed many papers to scientific journals and served as the Secretary of the Vermont Board of Agriculture from 1875 to 1878. Seely was the Prohibition candidate for Governor of Vermont in 1886 and 1888.

In 1858, he married Adelaide E. Hamblin (1832-1865), and in 1867, he remarried Sarah Jana Mathews (1849–1946). He died on May 4, 1917, in Middlebury, Vermont.

Seeley, H. G. (Harry Govier), 1839-1909

  • no2008110353
  • Person
  • 1839-1909

Harry Govier Seeley was born on February 18, 1839, in London, England.

He was a British paleontologist and author. He studied English and mathematics in the late 1850s at the Working Men's College and became secretary to the college's museum. He supported himself by copying documents in the library of the British Museum, where Samuel P. Woodward encouraged him to study geology. In 1859, Seeley entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and was hired as an assistant in the Woodwardian Museum, where he lectured and catalogued fossils. In 1876, he became Professor of Geology and Geography at King's College, Cambridge; Bedford College, London and Queen's College, Cambridge, where he was appointed Dean in 1881. In 1891, he also became Lecturer on Geology and Mineralogy at the Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper Hill, and held the office until 1906. Seeley published several papers, two catalogues of pterodactyl fossils, and the book on pterosaurs, Dragons of the Air (1901). He was a Fellow of the Linnean, Geological, Zoological, and Royal Geographical Societies and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1879. He was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society in 1885. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Philadelphia Academy (1878), the Imperial Geological Institute of Vienna (1880), and the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Moscow (1895). He was also a member of the Athenaeum Club.

In 1872, he married Eleanora Jane Mitchell (1845–1925). He died on January 8, 1909, in London, England.

Sedgwick, Henry N. M. (Henry Nanton Murray), 1840-1926

  • Person
  • 1840-1926

Henry Nanton Murray Sedgwick was born on December 2, 1840, in St. Peters, Antigua, West Indies, son of Samuel Sedgwick (1798-1861), a physician in the West Indies.

He was a surgeon. He studied medicine in London, England, and in 1863, he enrolled in the Royal Navy. In the early 1870s, he served as a Fleet Surgeon on board the Royal Navy ship Salamis. In the 1890s, he served on the vessel Duke of Wellington. After he retired from the Royal Navy, he worked as a Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals in Portsmouth, England. He was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

In 1880, he married Mary Constance Aldous née Gray (1843–). He died on December 23, 1926, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.

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