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Dr. Edmond M. Eberts was born in Chatham, Ontario, on May 27, 1873. He
received his basic education in Winnipeg but was then forced by circumstances
to interrupt his schooling and become an employee of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
A burning desire to become a surgeon compelled him to leave a promising
railroad career and enter the Faculty of Medicine, McGill, in 1893, graduating
with high honors in 1897.
After a brief period of additional study in London, he began his
associations with the Montreal General Hospital and the McGill Medical Faculty,
both ofwhich he maintained until his retirement.
He rose to the highest appointments in both institutions Professor of Surgery
at McGill and Attending Surgeon at the Hospital.
Eberts attained a superb mastery of the art of surgery, winning for
himself a reputation as one of the outstanding surgeons of his generation. He
made many valuable contributions, but his most notable achievement was in the
field of thyroid surgery where he pioneered in application of newer advances in
biochemistry to thyroid disease. Although Dr. Eberts had, throughout the years,
a strong interest in thoracic surgery, his active work in this field was
essentially limited to empyema.
He found great satisfaction in teaching, being a sound and practical
person, disdainful of show and display. His work was always carefully prepared
and he had little tolerance for incompetence in others, yet he was patient and
understanding with the sincere worker.
Dr. Eberts was a member of and valuable contributor to many
organizations, both medical and civic. He served also on the Medical Board at
General Hospital. His entire professional life was centered in this hospital
where he rose to eminence and which, in turn, added to its own greatness for
having had one such as Dr. Eberts on its staff.
Dr. Eberts died in Montreal on May 17, 1945.
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Photograph of Dr. Von Eberts was not available
