Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Scriver, Walter de Mouilpied
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Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Scriver, Walter de M.
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Description area
Dates of existence
1894-1967
History
Walter de Mouilpied Scriver was born in 1894 in Hemmingford, Quebec, and received his B.A. from McGill University in 1915. He served overseas from 1915-1918, returning to Montreal to earn his medical degree from McGill in 1921. He was Professor Medicine at McGill’s Faculty of Medicine from 1952-1957 and physician-in-chief at the Royal Victoria Hospital. He specialized in the field of pharmacology and had a research interest in diabetes and kidney diseases. He was instrumental in founding the Quebec Division of the Canadian medical association and served as a member of its Executive Committee from 1947-1957. Scriver died in 1967.