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J. A. S. Brunelle Collection
Collection
8,5 cm of textual records (5 items)
Dr. Joseph Antoine Stanislas Brunelle was a Montreal doctor, living on Sherbrooke Street who kept practice at 698 Sherbrooke. He was Professor of Surgery at Victoria University in the 1890s. He was also Professor of Surgery at the College of Medicine and Surgery and Professor of external pathology at Laval University, Medical Faculty. He was surgeon to Hotel Dieu and the Good Shepherd asylum.
Purchased by the Osler Library in 1939. Old accession number 284. The volumes had been given to Dr. J.A.S. Brunelle by the Curé Desnoyers of St-Pie.
The collection contains three volumes of manuscripts from an anonymous student of the course of lectures on midwifery by Dr. Thomas Young, dating from 1783. The first volume has three inserts: two pencil portraits of unidentified men and an envelope on which is written a note to Dr. J.A.S. Brunelle. The collection is divided in three file folders.
The documents are in English and there are inscriptions in French.
Items can be requested for consultation online via the Library Catalogue or by email at osler.library@mcgill.ca. Advance notice is recommended.