The Upper Canada Journal of Medical, Surgical and Physical Science, 1851-52. Volume I

The province's first medical journal was conducted by the following men: Edward Mulberry Hodder (1810-78), physician, surgeon, and educator. One of Toronto's leading medical practitioners. In 1850, he and James Bovell founded the Upper Canada School of Medicine where he lectured on midwifery and diseases of women and children. In 1851, he and Bovell established this journal, to which he contributed several articles. During the cholera epidemic of 1854 in Toronto he and Bovell made transfusions of milk into the veins of some patients – with mixed results. John King (d. 1857). Little is known. Said to be one of the leading physicians of his day, treating patients at Toronto General Hospital. James Bovell (1817-80), physician, Church of England clergyman, theologian, and educator. In 1851 he was co-founder and editor of this journal. His personal contributions to medical journals totaled nearly 30 papers, on topics ranging from the anatomy of the leech to a uterine tumour as a complication of childbirth. Lucius O’Brien (1797-1870), physician, editor, and civil servant. Eldest son of Captain Lucius O’Brien of the Royal Artillery. Said to be an affable person, a lively conversationalist, and a man of considerable ability, but his "intemperance" would appear to have frustrated his varied attempts to establish a successful career. Henry Melville, Professor of Surgery in Toronto. Another founder of the Upper Canada School of Medicine. Subsequently practised and lectured in New York City and elsewhere. Eventually moved to England.