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ON00425 3-1-5-3 · File · 1981
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Arthur Riley Armstrong conducted by Charles Roland on 25 November 1981.Topics cover: Dr. Armstrong’s educational experience in medicine; the development of the King-Armstrong method; the publication and usage of the method; discussion of Bodansky’s method; Discussion of the wide use of the King-Armstrong method; recollection of Dr. Banting and Dr. Best; experience of working in the army during the Second World War and recollection of the Belsen concentration camp; experience of working in the sanitorium and discussion of the treatment of tuberculosis in the 1930s; discussion of Dr. Holbrook; discussion of the model Dr. Armstrong had devised for deciding the dosage for tuberculosis treatment.

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ON00425 3-1-5-22 · File · 1981
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

File consists of a transcript and three audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Louis Backer Jaques conducted by Charles Roland on 30 October 1981. Topics cover: discussion of Dr. Jaques’ book collecting interests (George A. Henty, his novels and personal life); recollection of the early years of teaching and research in the department of Physiology at the University of Saskatchewan in the late 1940’s; research activities from 1950-1960; research in the 1960’s and 1970’s; personal life during the years in Saskatoon and extra interests external to heparin.

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ON00425 3-1-5-21 · File · 1981
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Louis Backer Jaques conducted by Charles Roland on 16 January 1981. Topics cover: discussion of his anxiety to contribute to the war effort in the beginning of the Second World War; his role in teaching during the war time; recollection of the staff in the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto after the war (Tom Waters, Jacob Markowitz); anecdotes about the war; stories about Gallie and Gordon Murray; research on the effectiveness of dicumarol in thrombosis starting from 1941 and the study on the application of silicone in handling blood coagulation; his appointment as professor of physiology at the University of Saskatchewan and the early years in Saskatchewan (relationships with the local medical profession in Saskatoon, the appointment of Jack Millar as an instructor; equipment and facilities in the department, the acceleration of the medical class in 1940-41, the family’s arriving in Saskatchewan, collaboration within the faculty, experiments and research work, research grant, the story of getting the Physiology Act passed in Regina).

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ON00425 3-1-5-20 · File · 1981
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Louis Backer Jaques conducted by Charles Roland on 9 January 1981. Topics cover: the story of his career in the mid-1930’s; discussion of expenditure for research in the 1930’s in Canada; his study on blood coagulation and heparin in the mid-1930’s; the study of protamine conducted by A.F. Charles, C.H. Best and himself in 1937; his research on heparin in the anaphylactic shock in 1937; his teaching experience in physiology as a demonstrator for the class labs in physiology; his experience of supervising the commercial production of heparin in 1939; discussion of Arthur Charles’ work on the chemistry of heparin in late 1930’s; the beginning of the Second World War in 1939; his memory of Banting; recollections and stories of Gordon Murray.

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ON00425 3-1-5-2 · File · 1980
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Dr. Clifford Armitage conducted by Dr. Charles Roland on November 19, 1980, and December 11, 1980, in Brampton. Topics cover: Family members and early life in London and Blaine Lake; life in University of Saskatchewan (financial situations, sports, social life, jobs, etc.); financial situations after graduation and experience of working with different companies; experience of studying in the medical school at University of Toronto; experience of getting started in medical practice; life in England as a house physician at Radcliffe infirmary in Oxford; practicing medicine in Schumacher (setting up the office, medical situations, common diseases, mining accidents, economic situations, the prepaid medical plan, etc.); recollection of outstanding things regarding medical changes (tuberculosis, pasteurized milk and clean water, immunization programmes, general attitude towards sex, the advent of antibiotics, the delivery of medical health care).

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ON00425 3-1-5-19 · File · 1980
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Louis Backer Jaques conducted by Charles Roland on 23 October 1980. Topics cover: recollection of university years at the University of Toronto (programs, teachers, subjects, and projects); experience as a graduate student and relations with his supervisor, Charles Best; discussion of the discovery of heparin (the original heparin team in Toronto, Jay McLean, etc.), the formation of his research group studying various aspects of blood clotting in the mid-1930’s.

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ON00425 3-1-5-18 · File · 1963 - 1980
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

File consists of a book, The Prayer Book Companion authored by Louis Backer Jaques in 1963. Also included is a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Louis Backer Jaques conducted by Charles Roland on 17 October 1980. Topics cover: family background, family members and early years of Dr. Jaques’ life; recollection of his family physicians; anecdotes about his Legge-Pethes and Dr. Gallie; educational experience (Ryerson Public School, Harbord Collegiate, University of Toronto), family and personal connections with churches.

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ON00425 3-1-5-17 · File · 1988
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Dr. Orlando Harold Warwick conducted by Dr. Charles Roland on 21 January 1988. Topics discussed cover: family history; medical education and training in Montreal, Canada (University of Western Ontario and Royal Victoria Hospital); medical education in London, England (Oxford University, postgraduate work at the Royal Cancer Society); development of chemotherapy for cancer in the 1940’s-1970’s (single agent chemotherapy, anti cancer drugs, cancer treatments, VLB agent, mustard nitrogen agent, clinical trials, eventual combination therapy for cancer); discussion on the development of the Eli Lilly Company (producers of chemotherapy drugs, patents); patent development of chemotherapy drugs, specifically VLB and the involvement of the University of Western Ontario holding the patent; reminisces of meeting Maud Abbot as a student, and her death (Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbot, MD, 1869-1940); cancer stories of patients; discussion of Dr. Nobel’s Terry Fox Lecture in 1984; discussion of Hugh McAlpine, an endocrinologist studying an antidiabetic plant in Jamaica; and interactions of VLB and diabetes; account of Dr. J.C Meakins and his achievements.

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ON00425 3-1-5-16 · File · 1981
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

File consists of a transcript and three audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Dr. Harold Nathan Segall conducted by Dr. Charles Roland on July 15, 1981. Topics discussed cover: recollection of his parents, wife and two children; discussion about the people in the history of medicine (W.W. Francis, Cecile Desbarats, Leo Pariseau, etc.); his finances throughout the career (earliest saving in 1937, household expenses, how he managed money, etc.); his involvement with the Osler library and the Osler Society); reminiscence and stories of Paul Weisz, Norman Bethune, Wilder Penfield, H. Ernest MacDermot, W.B. Howell, Karl Landsteiner, Sclater Lewis, T. Wesley Mills, Lloyd Stevenson, Earle Scarlett, E.G. Finley; discussion of the regrets and deficiencies on his professional and personal life.

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ON00425 3-1-5-15 · File · 1981
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Dr. Harold Nathan Segall conducted by Dr. Charles Roland on July 14, 1981. Topics discussed cover: research on coronary circulation at McGill; discussion about Arthur Mirsky, one of Dr. Segall’s volunteers he had for doing heart-lung preparations at McGill; shift of his research focus from coronary circulation to clinical auscultation; the acquisition of his first portable electrocardiograph; reminiscence and stories of Alton Goldbloom and Sam Baehrman; personal relationship with the family of Richard V. Look; stories about his girlfriend and their relationship; experience as a private physician to Sir Henry Thornton; experience of running a cardiac clinic in the Herzl Dispensary and recollection of interesting clientele and cases; stories about the establishment of the Women’s General Hospital (later Reddy Memorial Hospital); his involvement in the establishment of the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal; his teaching activities in 1930s and 1940s and the annual lectureship he had created and supported; the funeral of Louis Gross; discussion and comment on his experience of being a Jewish physician and a visible minority in Montreal; the story of the creation of the Montreal Cardiac Society; reminiscence and stories of I.M. Rabinovich; the origins of his interest in history and his involvement in the history of medicine; reminiscence and stories of Maude Abbott.

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ON00425 3-1-5-14 · File · 1981
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Dr. Harold Nathan Segall conducted by Dr. Charles Roland on July 13, 1981, in Montreal. Topics cover: Dr. Segall’s family history and the origin of his Hebrew name; early memories of living in De La Roche Street; early educational experience (the junior school he first attended, Dufferin school and the teachers, Montreal High School and the clubs he was involved in, etc.); experience in the McGill medical school and reminiscence of the people there (Professor Frank Lloyd, Charles Frederick Martin, Dr. John Scane, etc.); reminiscence and stories of Louis Cross; recollection of working with Dr. James H. Means and Paul White ; experience of getting involved in the establishment of the cardiac clinic at the Montreal General Hospital; the method he devised of describing heart sounds by quantitative symbols.

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ON00425 3-1-5-13 · File · 1971, 1978
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

File consists of a transcript and three audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Earle Parkhill Scarlett conducted by Charles Roland on 12 November 1978. Topics cover: personal family life and history; education and teaching in Manitoba; involvement in the First World War- “Van Doo’s” of Quebec under Governor General George P. Vanier; medical training at the University of Toronto, and creation of the University of Toronto Medical School Journal; connections to various newspaper offices and activities; emergence of clinics in Calgary, Alberta- The Calgary Associate Clinic; launch of the Historical Society in 1932; history of the Historical Bulletin journal (1936-58); reminisces and stories of prominent friends (Bill Waner, Heber Hamieson, George Stanley, etc); process of writing and editing articles; writing history of Canadian Medical School articles; influence of the Historical Bulletin on Medical History in Canada.

Also included is a portrait of Dr. Scarlett and Dr. Charles Roland taken in July 1971, Calgary and three portraits of Dr. Scarlett taken in November 1978, Calgary.

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ON00425 3-1-5-12 · File · 1992
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Connie Lynn Rankin Roland conducted by Charles Roland on 18 July 1992. Topics cover: recollections of her father, Roy William Rankin from 1930’s-1970’s (First and Second World Wars); recollections of her father’s medical practice in Tillsonburg 1920-1970 (office, diabetes care, stick bugs and cancer research at the University of Western Ontario, poison ivy inoculation, testing of escorts, Demerol shots, hemorrhoid treatment); economics of being a doctor in Tillsonburg from 1920-1970.

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ON00425 3-1-5-11 · File · 1980
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

File consists of a transcript and 3 audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Dr. Alexander Anderson Numbers conducted by Corinne Saunders on November 19th, 1980. Topics cover: experience of serving in the army in Rouen, France; family background; medical courses he had taken in medical school and his summer work during his medical studies; the clinical training received in medical school; experience interning at Hamilton General Hospital (giving anesthetics for obstetrics, treating summer diarrheas and burns in pediatrics, relationships with patients); experience of practicing medicine in Ancaster; discussions about planned parenthood and Elizabeth Bagshaw; stories about the superstitions he experienced when practicing medicine.

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ON00425 3-1-5-10 · File · 1985
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

File consists of a transcript and a cassette of an oral history interview with McLay Miller conducted by Charles Roland on 17 June 1982. Topics cover: Dr. Miller ‘s family history; influences on medical career; education, training, professor discussion, and facility discussion at Western University, Ontario from 1926-1933; the graduating class at Western University; discussion about Dr J.W Crane- medical history and creation of the Osler Society; practicing medicine in Aylmer during the 1930’s (treating diseases, using sulpha drugs, penicillin, discussion of epidemic diseases (measles, tuberculosis); midwives in the 1930’s; perspective on newly trained doctors ; discussion on impact of Dr. Douglas Carey (a surgeon) in St. Thomas; reasons and reminisces on retirement; post retirement activities (photography and bookbinding).

Also included are two portraits of Dr. Miller taken at time of interview.

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ON00425 3-1-5-1 · File · 1980
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Howard John Alexander conducted by Dr. Charles Roland on 19 November 1980 and 11 December 1980 in Brampton. Topics cover: early life and educational experience; impressive professors in the University of Toronto Medical School; life in the medical school; experience of interning at Toronto General Hospital from 1925-26; reminiscence of married life with Florence Evelyn Cowan and their Children; experience in the Welland clinic and recollection of the doctors there; experience of practicing medicine in Tillsonburg (partners he’d been working with, interesting or challenging cases he had seen, the drugs that were available to use in the 1925’s and 1930’s, treating of patients before the age of antibiotics, stories about other practitioners).

The transcript is followed by pages that were sent to Dr. Charles Roland by Dr. Alexander when he returned the edited copy of the transcript for the interview, later in January 1982. They represent suggestions of his as to additional material that might be of interest, and also material that he is preparing with a view to a possible autobiography.

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Early Canadian medicine
ON00425 3-1-5 · Subseries · 1913-1992
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

Subseries consists of transcripts, cassette tapes, and photographs relating to oral history interviews documenting notable Canadian persons and developments in medical history. Interviews are arranged alphabetically according to surname.

ON00425 3-1-4 · Subseries · 1982-1995
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

Subseries consists of transcripts, cassettes, and photographs documenting oral history interviews with former Prisoners of War in Asia during the Second World War. These interviews were used in researching and writing Long Night’s Journey into Day, 2001. Interviews are arranged alphabetically according to surname.

ON00425 3-1-3 · Subseries · 1980-1992
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds

Subseries consists of transcripts, cassettes, and photographs documenting oral history interviews with former Prisoners of War in Europe during the Second World War. Dr. Roland recorded these interviews as part of his research for an uncompleted monograph on the topic, intended to complement his 2001 book on the experiences of Prisoners of War in Asia. However, Dr. Roland passed away before completing this work. Interviews are arranged alphabetically according to surname.