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NAME MC INNES 744 MC KAY Mclnnes, Thomas R. (1840-1904) His Honor Thomas R. Mclnnes, M. D., Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, was the son of John Mclnnes, a native of Inver- ness, Scotland. He was born at Lake Ainslie, Nova Scotia, November S, 1840, and was edu- cated at the Provincial Normal School, in the same province. He studied medicine at Har- vard University and at Rush Medical College, Chicago, graduating M. D. at the latter, in 1869. In the same year he was admitted a member of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Ontario. He practised for some years at Dresden, Ont., but removed to New West- minster, British Columbia, where he at once entered into a large and lucrative practice. Appointed medical superintendent of the insane asylum January 1, 1879, he remained in office up to 1883, when he resigned. He was also for five years physician and surgeon to the Royal Columbia Hospital, and sat for New Westminster in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1881, when he was called to the Senate by the Governor-General, the Marquis of Lome. In November, 1897, he was ap- pointed Lieutenant-Governor of British Co- lumbia. As a public man he favored the estabhsh- ment of a Dominion mint; the poHtical dis- enfranchisement of the civil service; and com- pulsory voting. He was the first member of either the Senate or the Commons to advocate on the public platform unrestricted reciprocity with the United States. His death occurred at Victoria, British Co- lumbia, March 15, 1904. Institutional Care of the Insane in the U. S. and Canada, Henry M. Hurd, 1917. Mackall, Louis (1802-1876) Louis Mackall, the first of three generations of physicians bearing the same name, a prac- titioner with a philosophical turn of mind, was born at Mackall Square, Georgetown Heights, District of Columbia, January 7, 1820, the son of Benjamin Mackall and Christiana Beall. He was educated at Georgetown in the school of Dr. Carnahan, afterwards president of Princeton, and took an M. D. at the University of Maryland in 1824. He practised in Prince George's County, Maryland, then retired and moved to Georgetown in 1840. He devoted himself to the study of sciences and wrote "Notes on Carpenter's Human Physiology . . . " (127 pages), essays on "Life in Nature," "Law of Muscular Action," and criticisms on Tyndall and Darwin. In 1828 Dr. Mackall married Sarah Somervell, daugh- ter of Captain John Grahame Mackall, an officer in the War of 1812. She died in 1831, leaving one child, Louis. In 1851, Dr. Mackall married Mary Bruce. He died July 3, 1876, of dysentery. His son, Louis Mackall, 2nd, was born in Prince George's County, April 10, 1831, re- ceived an early education at William R. Ab- bott's Classical Seminary, Georgetown, studied medicine with his father, and graduated M. D. from the University of Maryland in 1851. He practised in Georgetown, where he was a member of the Board of Health; he was president of the Medical Society of the Dis- trict of Columbia, and was professor of clin- ical medicine and afterwards professor of physiology at Georgetown University. He was author of "Treatment of Diphtheria with the Permanganate of Potash," and "Treatment of Epilepsy with Chloral Hydrate." In 1851 he married Margaret Whann Mc- Vean ; they had nine children. An attack of gastritis was the cause of his death April 18, 1906. A son, Louis Mackall, 3rd, was a physician of Washington, D. C. Information received from Dr. Louis Mackall, 3rd. Phys. and Surgs. of the United States, W. B. Atkinson. 1878. Memorial Meeting of the Medical Society, June 13, 1906, in Honor of the late Dr. Louis Mackall. McKay, William Morrison (1836-1917) William Morrison McKay, of Edmonton, New Brunswick, has been described as the doyen of the medical profession of the west. He was one of the first practitioners to go out to the Mackenzie district in the days when the only settlements of white people were the trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company. Born in Stirling, Scotland, in 1836, he was educated at Edinburgh and intended to be- come an engineer. An accident occurred, however, by which he lost the sight of an eye, and during the time spent in the infirmary as a result of this, he determined to take up the profession of medicine. In 1858 he re- ceived the degree of M. D. from the Uni- versity of Edinburgh. After practising for a few years. Dr. McKay joined the Hudson Bay service and on June 13, 1865, sailed from London for Canada. He landed at York Factory, which at that time was inhabited by about sixty white people, and there he spent three years serving as doctor to the post. In the summer of 1868 he went to Fort Simp- son in the Mackenzie district and from that centre he made many long excursions — in winter usually by dog sleigh — to minister to the Indians during the frequent outbreaks of infectious diseases. The succeeding years were spent at various trading posts, first as