Annals of medical history . e than once went to Montreal andQuebec. He was the first president of theMedical and Chirurgical Society, which hefounded in 1833. Dr. Widmer was one of the first in UpperCanada to recognize the vahie of vaccina-tion. He had a notice placed in the papersstating that he would inoculate the childrenof the poor free of charge. The first inocu-lation in Canada were performed at Quebecin the j^ear 1768 by a Mr. Latham, surgeonto the Kings (or 8th) Regiment of Foot. been a pamphlet written in 1815, by , Secretary of the Institutionfor Vaccine Inoculation. The f
Annals of medical history . e than once went to Montreal andQuebec. He was the first president of theMedical and Chirurgical Society, which hefounded in 1833. Dr. Widmer was one of the first in UpperCanada to recognize the vahie of vaccina-tion. He had a notice placed in the papersstating that he would inoculate the childrenof the poor free of charge. The first inocu-lation in Canada were performed at Quebecin the j^ear 1768 by a Mr. Latham, surgeonto the Kings (or 8th) Regiment of Foot. been a pamphlet written in 1815, by , Secretary of the Institutionfor Vaccine Inoculation. The first medicaljournal published in Toronto was the UpperCanada Journal 0/ Medical, Surgical andPhysical Science, 1851-52. In this first vol-ume the name of Widmer appears at thehead of a number of signatures. As thepaper has to do with a new medical billbelieved to be introduced into the Province,it is thought worth while to give it , whose signatures appear below, adoptthis means of expressing our entire dissent from. Dk. Widmers House, was iL duubic gabled two-story house of brick, built by Dr. Widmer, a pioneer physicianand surgeon of early York and Toronto. After Dr. Widmers death in 1858 it was occupied byhis son-in-law, Capt. John Clarke, and was demolished in 1900. Although the introduction of inoculationinto Canada was not attended with theantagonism it elsewhere created, yet attimes, letters appeared complaining of thepractice. For instance, in the KingstonGazette of 1812, a Mr. Freedom wrote aletter in which he said: That a doctorhaving no one to practice upon, inducedone of his children to be inoculated forsmallpox and through that the diseasedevasted the neighbourhood. The only literature published in Canadaon the subject at this time seems to have the principle sought to be introduced into theproposed Bill for Incorporating the MedicalProfession in Upper Canada; namely, thatBritish Graduates and the members of BritishColleges shall be excluded from th
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