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William Wood Squire Fonds
Fonds
3 cm of textual records
William Wood Squire was born in 1836 in Montreal, the son of Rev. William Wood. He graduated in Medicine at McGill in 1864. He kept a practice between 1864 and 1868 at 776 Craig St., now St. Antoine, in Montreal. He was briefly a member of the St George's Masonic Lodge in Montreal before he died, registering in 1867, but his account was cancelled when he died in 1868.
Purchased at Montreal Book Auctions Ltd., sale 112, lot 182, 12 October 1978. Part of old accession number 612.
Fonds contains William Wood Squire's manuscript of his thesis "Pathology and Treatment of some forms of Partial Paralysis" which won a prize as best thesis in medicine at McGill in 1864. The fonds includes a bound notebook and one loose illustration.
The documents are in English.
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