Andrew Macphail

John Mccrae (Dodo Press) Andrew Macphail

Sir Andrew Macphail (1864-1938) was a Canadian physician, author, professor of medicine and soldier. He received his medical degree from McGill University in 1891. In 1907, he was appointed McGill's first Professor of the History of Medicine and served in this position until 1937. In 1911, he became the founding editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. During World War I, he served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps and was later awarded a knighthood. He wrote an essay on the poet, "An Essay in Character, " for the 1919 edition of John McCrae's In Flanders Fields and Other Poems. In 1930, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal. Among his works are: The Vine of Sibmah: A Relation of the Puritans (1906), The Land (1914), The Book of Sorrow (ed. ) (1916), John McCrae (1922) Three Persons (1929), The Bible In Scotland (1931) and The Master's Wife (1939).