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A.B. Macallum, pioneer of scientific medicine

Archibald Byron Macallum, about 1900.
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Archibald Byron Macallum, born at Belmont, Upper Canada, and educated at Toronto and Johns Hopkins, set up Canada’s first physiological laboratory at the University of Toronto. Professor of biochemistry at Toronto and later McGill, and chairman of the National Research Council from 1916 to 1920, he was a pioneer of scientific medicine and an authority on cellular microchemistry.

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Macallum as described in his designation.

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Archibald Byron Macallum National Historic Person ↗

Parks Canada (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)

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