Jonathan Campbell Meakins
Jonathan Campbell Meakins McGill University's Faculty of Medicine from 1941-48. [2]
Life
Meakins was born on 16 May 1882 in
Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services.[5]
After the war, in 1919, he took up the post as Professor of Therapeutics at the
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Lorrain Smith, Henry Briggs, Sir James Walker and James Hartley Ashworth.[3] While at the University of Edinburgh, he was one of the first medical researchers to administer and study the effects of insulin. In 1924 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh
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In 1924, he moved back to Canada as Professor of Medicine at McGill University where he remained until his retirement in 1947.[6] He died in Montreal on 12 October 1959.
Family
Meakins married twice, first to Dorothy Brown (died 1926) and then to Sara Caldwell Young. He is father to Jonathan Lafayette Meakins and grandfather of Jonathan Larmonth Meakins.[6]
Publications
- Meakins, Jonathan Campbell (1936). The practice of medicine (1st ed.). St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Company. p. xv, 1343.
- Meakins, J. C.; Priestley, J. G. (November 1919). "The After Effects of Chlorine Gas Poisoning". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 9 (11): 968–974. PMID 20311346.
- Meakins, Jonathan C. (May 1942). "Modern Trends in Medical Practice". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 46 (5): 449–456. PMID 20322448.
References
- ^ "Dr. Jonathan C. Meakins". Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 14 October 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
- ^ "MCGILL FACULTY OF MEDICINE". Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
- ^ McGill Medicine: The Second Half of the Century 1885–1936, by Joseph Hanaway and Richard Cruess
- ^ a b "Meakins, Jonathan Campbell, 1882-". McGill Archival Collections Catalogue. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
- ^ a b "Jonathan Campbell Meakins, [16 May 1882 - 12 October 1959], Born: Hamilton, Wentworth County, Ontario, Canada, Died: Montreal, Québec, Canada". www-personal.umich.edu. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
External links
- Jonathan Campbell Meakins fonds, Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University. Fonds contains personal and professional records documenting Meakins' life and work.
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