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Adamson, James Douglas
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CA UMCMA Adamson_JamesD
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(29 Jan 1890 - 4 Sept 1964)
Biographical history
Education: BA (Man)1910; MD (Man)1914; MRCP (Edin); FRCP(C)
Positions: Demonstrator, Lecturer, Asst Prof, Assoc, Prof then Professor of Medicine 1938- ; Asst Supt Ninette, San; Med Dir SBGH 1927- ; Prof Emeritus 1956
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The James Douglas Adamson files contain the following materials
Folder 1:
- Obits: CMAJ 91:1033 1964; MMR 44:509 1964; MMR 44:563 1964; ?WFP5 Sept 1964, Appreciations (IM Thompson, LG Bell, S McEwen): MMR,;v44(9):564-565 Nov 1964 & v44(10):635,637 Dec 1964(4pp)
- Copy of student and faculty cards (2pp)
- Faculty questionnaire, nd (1p)
- CVs, nd but various times (incl 5 reprint first pp)
See also no 8 below (11pp)
- Personal history (1p)
- Thumbnail sketch & picture UMMJ 14:42-43 1943
- “Honorary Graduate” - Dr. J.D. Adamson UMMJ 22:149 1951
- Copy of service record & picture, Roll of Honour 1914-1918, 1923 (3pp)
- James Douglas Adamson (1890-1964): In the Oslerian Tradition by RE Beamish, Annals RCPSC 24(4)191-193; also same title ms as talk by RE Beamish to Can Soc for the History of Medicine, Victoria BC, May 26 1990
- Note from AE Thomson on JD’s activities (1p)
- Account of address by JDA to Lion’s Club on Man Gov Health Insce, CMAJ v42(4):402 (1p)
- Letter from RE Beamish re JDA’s work on high blood pressure (3pp)
- Staff record - restricted access (8pp)
See also:
- Notes from interview with JDA re history of Faculty of Medicine & historical sketch are found in Archives file #21.2.1(2)
- Artifacts #91: Plaque: “To the memory of “J.D.” Clinician and Teacher. James Douglas Adamson 1890-1964. Professor of Medicine 1939-1950. Dedicated by the Class of 1941.
- The Archives holds many prints that are ex libris JD Adamson
Folder 2: - Adamson, JD: "Medical History Writing": 2 copies; 2nd copy amended in minor ways by JP Gemmell dated Sept 1954 (18pp+14pp)
- "Total and Permanent Disability in Canada", signed copy (6pp)
- "Leonardo da Vinci" attributed to JD Adamson (18pp)
- Reprint of “Inaugural address” 1930 by JDA (pp10-14) incl JA Gunn’s Armistice Day & D Mainland’s Valedictory) (1 booklet of 16pp)
- Physical Examination of the Respiratory Tract (27pp)
MPC 1.0#2A,B ; MPC 4.3#21 A ;
MPC 4.6#1 (12 glass slides used in Adamson’s Hist of Med lectures-in Archives slide file
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- Staff record - restricted access (8pp)