Le texte français suit Sharing Canada’s Military Medical Heritage/ The Canadian Military Medical Services Virtual Museum is eager to provide greater exposure for Canadian military medical artifacts which unfortunately are not centralized in a single physical museum....
Major Sir Frederick Grant Banting, MC, was born on November 14, 1891, at Alliston, ON. Educated at the Public and High Schools at Alliston, he later went to the University of Toronto to study divinity, but soon transferred to the study of medicine. In 1916 he took his...
Professor Wilbur Franks developed the first G-suit used in combat Franks trained in cancer research under Fredrick Banting and took charge of wartime RCAF medical research after Banting’s death. He invented the pressure suit, which allows pilots to carry out...
TITLE: The Operational Art : Canadian Perspectives : Health Service Support Author: Publisher: Kingston ON, Canadian Defence Academy Press 2006, ISBN 0-662-44241-5. This is the third volume in The Operational Art series published by the Canadian Defence...
TITLE: Starlight Afghanistan: Our Story in South-West Asia Author: Publisher: This must have book was commissioned by former Surgeon General, Commodore Hans Jung, to document the rotation of health services personnel to Afghanistan from beginning to end....
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