Gilbert Girdwood

Gilbert Prout Girdwood was an English army and civilian physician and surgeon, academic and author, noted for his service in the Canadian Army. He was a pioneer in medical education and radiography in Canada.

Girdwood was born at Paddington, London, the son of Gilbert Finley Girdwood, a physician in general practice and his wife Susan Sophia Bazeley, daughter of Thomas Bazeley, rector of Lavenham, who had been chaplain to Prince Edward Augustus. He was educated privately in London and entered University College, London in 1851 and then St Georges Hospital Medical School. He studied chemistry in London and Liverpool, and with a London chemist named Rodgers, developed a procedure for detecting strychnine in the human body. He was admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1854.

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