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Letter to Harvey Cushing, March 23, 1921
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Thomas McCrae was born in Guelph, Ontario. in 1870 and received his medical training at the University of Toronto. After acquiring his Doctor of Medicine in 1903, Dr. McCrae began teaching at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1912, he went to Philadelphia as Professor of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College. In 1924, he was Lumleian lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians in London. He was chairman of the Section on Practice of Medicine of the American Medical Association, 1914-1915. From 1916 to 1925 he was secretary of the Association of American Physicians and in 1930 its president. Dr. McCrae was closely associated with Sir William Osler, with whom he collaborated on several medical texts, including "Modern Medicine". He also edited revised editions of some of Osler's works. His brother was John McCrae, the author of "In Flanders Fields".
Letter to Harvey Cushing from Thomas McCrae, 1627, Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. McCrae remarks that Osler often used the title M.R.C.P. (Member of the Royal College of Physicians), as he did on a paper entitled, "Notes of Intestinal Diverticula," in the Annals of Anatomy and Surgery, 1881, IV, #5, November. Osler and Allbutt were elected Fellows to the College in 1883. Allbutt delivered the Gulstonian [sic] Lecture in 1884. McCrae will send an account of a dinner for MacAlister in which much is said of the formation of the Royal Society.
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