McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
MNI-buildings - Duggan and Birks House, exchange with McGill
File
4 pages of textual records 1 pamphlet
Born in Spokane, Washington, Wilder Penfield received his B.Litt. from Princeton University in 1913 and was a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford (B.A.1916). He received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1918. Studying under Sir Charles Sherrington at Oxford, Penfield became interested in the brain. From 1921 to 1928 he engaged in research and neurosurgery at the Presbyterian Hospital and served on the Medical Faculty of Columbia University. Appointed to the Medical Faculty of McGill University in 1928, he was Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery from 1934 to 1960. An endowment from the Rockefeller Foundation enabled him to establish the Montreal Neurological Institute (M.N.I.), which opened in 1934. At the M.N.I. Penfield made many innovations in neurosurgery including a surgical treatment for epilepsy. He devoted much of his research to the study of the physiology of the brain, speech memory and sensation. Besides his numerous scientific publications, Penfield wrote two novels and participated in a large number of professional organizations. Dr. Penfield was a member of the Board of Curators of the Osler Library.
The file contains a letter to William Feindel discussing the Montreal Neurological Institute’s Nurses’ Residence and accomodations; a 1977 pamphlet ‘McGill University Department of Psychiatry The Montreal General Hospital Symposium on Basic Principles and Techniques of Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy’; a photocopy of Eileen C. Flanagan’s report as Director of Nursing from the Montreal Neurological Institute’s 16th Annual Report (1950-1951); and a memo from C. Robertson to Feindel, 1977, about staff accomodations.