by Wayne Dauphinee | Apr 23, 2023 | Medical Pioneers, Milestones
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...
by canmilmedmuseum_fwtjpu | Aug 7, 2019 | Medical Pioneers, Milestones
Dr. Wilbur Franks has been credited with saving the lives of thousands of fighter pilots. His G-suit, developed in 1942, has been worn by every air force pilot in the world, as well as the astronauts and cosmonauts. After the death of his mentor Frederick Banting in...
by canmilmedmuseum_fwtjpu | Apr 29, 2018 | Medical Pioneers, Milestones
Dr Cluny MacPherson, a Newfoundlander and Newfoundland Regiment Medical Officer, was the inventor of the gas mask which was the most important protective device of the First World War, protecting countless soldiers from blindness, disfigurement or injury to their...
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