History of Surgery in Canada

Welcome to the online archive of the History of Surgery in Canada.

Historyofsurgery.ca is an open-access archive of Canadian surgery. Articles that have been published elsewhere are posted with the permission of the copyright holders. Citation should be made to the journal in which the articles were first published.

Historyofsurgery.ca is a work-in-progress. More articles and links will be posted. If you would like to add a previously published article, please send a PDF to the editor of historyofsurgery.ca and include permission from the copyright holder. Historyofsurgery.ca will accept original contributions which will be reviewed by the editors and independent assessors before posting. Other acceptable contributions may include locally published histories of hospitals, universities or surgical societies as well as photographs with legends.

Historyofsurgery.ca is grateful to University of Toronto Research Repository for hosting this archive.

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Research resources for Canadian medical history research

• INDEX CATALOGUE of the library of the Surgeon General's office, United States Army
  (a searchable database of all medical papers published in the 19th century)
• INTERNET ARCHIVE
  (a searchable database of scanned books and other materials from the past)
• Canadian Bulletin of Medical History
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• The Canadian Encyclopedia
• UWO medical artifact collection
• Osler library of the History of Medicine
• Museum of Health Care at Kingston
• Library and Archives Canada

Medical Journals

(from Canada, Great Britain and USA used by Canadian physicians in the 19th century)

• Montreal Medical Journal
• Canada Lancet, continued as The Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery
• Canadian Medical Journal, Canadian Monthly Record, Canada medical journal and monthly record of medical and surgical science
• Maritime Medical News
• Journal of the Canadian Medical Association also known as CMAJ (1911 - present)
• American Lancet
• Peninsular Journal of Medicine
• Detroit Review of Medicine
• New England Journal of Medicine (continuation of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, New England Medical Review and the Boston medical intelligencer)
• British Medical Journal (1858) (continuation of Association Medical Journal (1858 - 1856))
• London Journal of Medicine (1849 - 1852)
• Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal (1840 - 1852)
• The Lancet (1823)

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