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01-10-2018 | Images in Anesthesia
William Webster: author of Canada’s first anesthesia textbook
Published in: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie | Issue 10/2018
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Born in 1865 in Manchester, England, Dr. William Webster subsequently moved to Canada, graduating from the Manitoba Medical College in 1895. He returned to England to study pathology but eventually moved back to Winnipeg to begin a general practice. In 1906, Webster became the first full-time anesthesiologist in Western Canada and was named as an “honorary anesthetist” in the Winnipeg General Hospital’s Department of Surgery.1
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Dr. William Webster (1865-1934) (A) authored the first Canadian textbook of anesthesia, The Science and Art of Anesthesia, the front page of which is shown in the image (B)
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