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Note: tor in 1833. He was the Assistant Professor at Laval University in 1853 and he later served as Dean of the Medical Faculty. He served on the Quebec city council. James Sewell died on October 2, 1883 .Was dean of the faculty of medicine at Laval University and one-time president of the Canadian Medical Association.He also worked at the Hotel Dieu Hospital where he was the first to practice anasthesia on the 21st of January 1848.Read about it <a href="http://www.cja-jca.org/cgi/reprint/14/6/500.pdf">HERE</a> This account is a historical note on the Hotel-Dieu of Quebec, and particularly on the use of anaesthesia in that hospital. Dr. James Sewell (1837-1883) administered chloroform to a patient on February 3, 1848. The patient, Francis McNamara, had a great toe removed. Although Jacques claims this as "the use of chloroform for the first time in Canada," the claim does not hold up.
Note: He attended medical school in Edinburgh, Scotland and graduated as a medical doc
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