“A compliment to Canadian medicine”: Sir Thomas Roddick addresses the British Medical Association in Montréal

Two events in 2012, the centennials of both the birth of the Medical Council of Canada and the death of Joseph Lister — the originator of antiseptic/aseptic surgery,[1][1] can be serendipitously connected through the surgeon, Thomas Roddick, especially by his presidential speech delivered in 1897