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Cecil Owen Walsh Fonds
Fonds
14 cm of textual records
Cecil Owen Walsh was born July 28, 1892 in Canso, Nova Scotia. His father was a fisherman. He received his M.D., C.M. from McGill University in 1915.
During World War I, he enlisted as a medical student in the No. 3 Canadian General Hospital. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps with the rank of lieutenant. In 1936, he became a US citizen and moved to New York.
Donated to the Osler Library by Dr. G.P. Brooks, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, November 1999.
Fonds documents Dr. Cecil O. Walsh's activities mainly as a medical student at McGill University but also during his service overseas as a medical officer with the CAMC during World War I. The fonds contains notebooks on Nutrition, Physiology, Histology, Clinical Microscopy, Bacteriology, Practical Zoology, Medical Jurisprudence, Clinical Medicine, Mental Diseases, Clinical Surgery and Hygiene; printed exams intructions and notes on duty at war.
The documents are in English
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