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WHEN THERE ARE NO WORDS

Osler Library of the History of Medicine
22 January - 1 April 2025

Poster for When There are no Words

The exhibit, When There Are No Words, addresses the subjects of death and grief in Québec society through the lens of colour, symbols, printed texts, and handwritten messages found in sympathy cards from the last 150 years. It also includes a selection of condolence objects provided by the Organ and Tissue Donation Program of the ۲ݮƵ University Health Centre as an illustration of a different expression of sympathy.


Collections of Human Remains in the Medical Museum Roundtable

November 27, 2024
2:30-5 PM

Poster for roundtable Collections of Human Remains in the Medical Museum


Exhibition
Country Doctors of the 1900s

McIntyre Medical Building
Third floor

Poster for Country doctor exhibit

“ ...that flower of our calling—the cultivated general practitioner.
May this be the destiny of a large majority of you! You cannot reach any better position in a community; the family doctor is the man behind the gun, who does our effective work.
That his life is hard and exacting; that he is underpaid and overworked; that he has but little time for study and less for recreation—these are the blows that may give finer temper
to his steel, and bring out the nobler elements in his character.”

William Osler, “The Student Life,” 1905, p. 25

Osler’s words, some to the graduating medical school class of ۲ݮƵ and included in a 1905 essay titled “The Student Life”, exemplify the respect he had for country-based family physicians. This exhibit shows some of the diagnostic and therapeutic instruments and materia medica from the Maude Abbott Medical Museum that such practitioners might have used during the early to mid-20th century. A selection of the many books contained in the Osler Library that describe their medical and personal experiences during this time is also displayed.

Ying Chen, Rick Fraser and Mary Hague-Yearl


Thou Hast Need of Them: Historical Minorities in the Faculty of Medicine

poster for teh event

Join theOsler Library of the History of Medicine,Maude Abbott Medical Museum, and theto discuss the fascinating holdings related to three medical graduates from ۲ݮƵ University, each of whom prevailed over the systemic barriers they faced in pursuing their medical careers. Each institution will give a brief presentation about their graduate, followed by the opportunity to interact with items from their material history.

Tuesday,March26,2024 from 14:00 to 15:30

Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building / [221-224],3640 rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C7


A ۲ݮƵ24 Crowdfunding Event, A Night at the Maude Abbott Medical Museum: Pathology Then and Now, will be held March 13,2024 at 5:30 pm in support of the Maude Abbott Medical Museum Paper-mounted Lung Conservation Project

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Poster crowdfunding event March 13, 2024


In collaboration with the ۲ݮƵ Humanities and Arts in Medicine Club
The MAMM presents

Hidden in Plain Sight
Immortalizing the Mortal 2024
Wednesday, April 3
5:30-7:00

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Poster Immortalizing the Mortal 2024


Book launch CETTE SCIENCE NÉCESSAIRE at the MAMM January 11, 2024

invitation book launch


۲ݮƵ24 Crowdfunding Event.
A Night at the Maude Abbott Medical Museum: Pathology Then and Now - 2023 Edition
March 15, 5pm EST.

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Poster ۲ݮƵ24 2023


Immortalizing the Mortal April 26, 2023
6-7:30 PM

Poster Immortalizing Event 2023

Immortalizing the Mortal: The eye of the beholder

April 27th, 2022 17:30-19:00

The Maude Abbott Medical Museum presents In collaboration with ۲ݮƵ’s MSS Humanities and Arts in Medicine (McHAM)Immortalizing the Mortal: The eye of the beholder.

Express through art–poetry, sketching, dance, photography, or other media–what was once simply a medical specimen. Artistically “clothe in flesh” the person behind the disease.

Send your submission by April 18th to medicalmuseum.med [at] mcgill.ca

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