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THE death of Lt.—Col. John McCrae at the early age of forty-four is a sad loss to the Canadian Army Medical Corps and to the profession qt large. Dr. McCrae belonged to the type of modern physician in whom the study of disease is based on a thorough training in biology. A pupil of Ramsay Wright and of A. B. Macallum at the University of Toronto, he began his academic career as fellow in biology, and afterwards went to McGill as fellow, in pathology. Associated with Prof. Adami at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, he became known as a popular teacher and a keen investigator of problems in clinical medicine. He was the joint author with Dr. Adami of the well-known “Text-book of Pathology.” Always keenly interested in military matters, he joined his old battery at the outbreak of the Boer War, and in 1902 gained his majority and was given command. It is to be hoped that the valuable notes and sketches pf his South African campaigns may be published. In the present war he served with the Canadian Artillery, and was in the critical battles north of Ypres. Later he took charge of the medical department of the McGill Hospital, and a few days before his death had been appointed consulting- physician to one of the British divisions. He was a keen soldier, with a fine spirit of devotion to duty, and a personality which made him beloved by a wide circle of friends on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Dr. John Mccræ. Nature 100, 487–488 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/100487b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/100487b0