Royal Canadian College

Canada has a few fess than 10,000 doctors. Last week 60 of them, professors in one or another of the nine leading medical schools of the Dominion, met at Ottawa and formally organized a Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada. The other seven dozen medical professors in the schools are to become Charter Fellows ipso facto, according to the enabling law passed by the Canadian Parliament last year.

President of the new body and thus titularly the most eminent man in Canadian medicine is Lieut. Colonel Dr. Jonathan Campbell Meakins, 47, director of the Department of Medicine at McGill University. He was born at serene Hamilton, Ont., near Toronto and Buffalo. studied medicine at McGill, took advanced instruction at Johns Hopkins and Manhattan Presbyterian Hospital, taught therapeutics after the War at the University of Edinburgh. At Edinburgh he received his LL. D. His service with the Canadian Expeditionary force brought him his Lieutenant-Colonelcy. Colleagues praise him as an alert learner, a learned instructor.

The honor of being the first elected Fellow of the Canadian College went to Dr. Thomas Clarence Routley, 40. general secretary of the Canadian Medical Association. (Its president is Stephen Rice Jenkins, 71, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, a province with only 63 physicians for its 87,000 people.) Dr. Routley's election was commendation for his organizing work in Canadian medicine. Because his C. M. A. office is at Toronto, Toronto was made headquarters for the Royal Canadian College of Physicians & Surgeons. Generally acclaimed as the greatest of Canadian doctors was the late William Osier (1849-1919), who taught at McGill. By grading of the Nobel prize the living Canadians who have contributed most to medicine are Frederick Grant Banting, 38, Professor of Medical Research at the Uni-versity of Toronto, and his preceptor, John James Rickard Macleod, 53, Professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto until 1928. Since then Dr. Macleod has returned to his native Scotland to be Regius Professor of Physiology at the University at Aberdeen. They developed insulin.

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