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Edwin Seaborn (14 May 1872 – 28 November 1951) was a Canadian physician, surgeon, academic, military medical officer, and medical historian based in London, Ontario. A graduate of Western University Medical School, he taught anatomy and surgery at Western and served as commanding officer of No. 10 Canadian Stationary Hospital during the First World War. After the war, he resumed surgical practice and pursued research in medicine, zoology, and local history. His best-known historical work was The March of Medicine in Western Ontario, published in 1944.

Seaborn was born in Rawdon, Quebec, on 14 May 1872, the son of Reverend William Minter Seaborn and Aquile Rondeau Seaborn. In 1879, the family moved to London, Ontario, where his father took up an academic and clerical post.^[1][2]

He attended Western University Medical School from 1891 to 1895. After graduating in medicine in 1895, he began demonstrating anatomy at Western. He became chair of anatomy in 1903 and later taught surgery.^[1]

Seaborn practised medicine and surgery in London, Ontario, for more than five decades. His early medical research included work on typhoid fever. A later biographical article reported that he studied 125 typhoid patients treated without acetazone and recorded a mortality rate of 3 per cent.^[1]

At Western, Seaborn held teaching appointments in anatomy and surgery. By the time of the First World War, he was chair of anatomy and professor of clinical surgery.^[3]

During the First World War, Seaborn urged Western University to offer the Canadian government a staffed hospital unit for overseas service. An initial offer was declined, but Western renewed the proposal after mounting casualties increased pressure on the Canadian Army Medical Corps. The Canadian government accepted the offer in April 1916.^[1][3]

Seaborn was appointed commanding officer of No. 10 Canadian Stationary Hospital with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. The unit was organized as a 400-bed hospital and included medical officers, nursing sisters, and other ranks recruited largely from London, Western University, and surrounding communities.^[1] According to the Canadian Journal of Surgery, the hospital was prepared for deployment in about two and a half months, with equipment packed into 478 boxes for transport.^[3]

The unit arrived in England in August 1916. It first served at Seaford and later at Eastbourne, where its responsibilities expanded and it was reorganized as No. 14 Canadian General Hospital. Services included radiology, blood transfusion, physiotherapy, and regular medical and surgical teaching meetings.^[3]

In December 1917, Seaborn took a smaller group to Calais, France, where No. 10 Canadian Stationary Hospital occupied a damaged and poorly equipped site near the Canal de Marck. The unit repaired the site, constructed shelters, treated air-raid casualties, and managed large numbers of wounded soldiers. While at Calais, the hospital admitted 16,712 patients; according to the Canadian Journal of Surgery, only three other hospitals in France admitted as many.^[3]

After the war, Seaborn returned to London and resumed medical practice. He also pursued research in several fields. His medical work included studies of artificial respiration and ochronosis. A 2018 biographical article described his 1934–1935 work on ochronosis as the first report of the disease in Canada and noted that he documented a hereditary pattern in affected families.^[1]

Seaborn also studied the reproductive cycle of the mare and collaborated with French biologist Paul Champy. His zoological interests included research on maskinonge fish species in Lake Huron.^[1]

Seaborn was active in local history and collected diaries, letters, reminiscences, legal documents, photographs, and other records relating to London and Middlesex County. He was active in the London and Middlesex Historical Society and served as its president in 1936.^[2] His best-known historical work was The March of Medicine in Western Ontario, published by Ryerson Press in 1944.^[2]

A contemporary review in The Globe and Mail described The March of Medicine in Western Ontario as tracing medicine in the region from Indigenous medical practices to hospitals, epidemics, treatments, and medical institutions in Western Ontario.^[4] The review also noted Seaborn’s use of local records, reminiscences, diaries, letters, and other historical sources.^[4]

Seaborn also compiled historical material on military and civic history. In 1944, The Globe and Mail reported that Seaborn and W. D. Mills had compiled a history of the Fusiliers of London, Ontario, during the Riel Rebellion of 1885, based on the recollections of 19 survivors, with typewritten copies placed in libraries in Canada and the United States.^[5]

Seaborn also helped preserve records relating to Western University’s early history. Western News reported that the university’s original 1877–78 subscription list, described as probably the oldest surviving evidence of Western University, came into the university’s possession in 1946 or 1947 from the family of Solon Woolverton via Seaborn.^[6]

In the 1930s, Seaborn made wax-cylinder recordings of Indigenous songs, stories, and interviews while researching Indigenous medical practices. Western News reported that he recorded members of the Saugeen First Nation, including Pe-wak-a-nep and that one recording was later described as preserving an Indigenous account of the death of Tecumseh as told by the grandson of an eyewitness.^[7]

In 1938, Seaborn recorded Robert Thompson, a Saugeen First Nation man from Chief’s Point, singing and telling stories in Anishinaabemowin. The recordings were later rediscovered and became the subject of renewed community and museum interest after Saugeen First Nation anthropologist Bimodoshka Annya Pucan identified them while researching Anishinaabeg history.^[8][9]

In 1904, Seaborn married Ina Matilda Bucke, daughter of physician and psychiatrist Richard Maurice Bucke. They had one daughter, Ina Jessie Helene Seaborn.^[1][2]

Seaborn had wide interests outside medicine, including local history, natural history, fishing, Indigenous medical traditions, and early motoring. A 2014 article in The London and Middlesex Historian described him as one of London’s early automobile owners, noting that he owned a 1902 curved-dash Oldsmobile reportedly purchased in Detroit and that he appears to have been issued Ontario automobile permit No. 138 in 1903.^[10]

Seaborn received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1938.^[1][11] He retired from medical practice in 1948 and died at St. Joseph’s Hospital in London, Ontario, on 28 November 1951.^[1]

Seaborn’s papers are held in the Dr. Edwin Seaborn fonds at Western Archives. The fonds includes records relating to his medical practice, military service, research, correspondence, photographs, personal papers, and historical collections.^[2]

Some Seaborn-related local-history material is also held by the London Public Library’s Ivey Family London Room, whose digital collections provide access to photographs, images, and indexes from the library’s local-history holdings.^[12]

In 2016, a London Public Library historic-sites plaque commemorating Seaborn was unveiled at Western University. The plaque identifies him as an 1895 graduate of Western’s medical school, Chair of Anatomy, Professor of Surgery, and the first and only commanding officer of No. 10 Stationary Hospital. It also notes that the hospital treated more than 16,000 patients before returning to London in May 1919.^[13]

A 2012 Western University medical history exhibit described Seaborn as a lecturer, researcher, professor, commanding officer, and historian, and highlighted his role in collecting rare local documents and records.^[14]

• Seaborn, Edwin. The March of Medicine in Western Ontario. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1944.
• Seaborn, Edwin. “The oestrous cycle in the mare and some associated phenomena.” The Anatomical Record. 1925.
• Seaborn, Edwin; Champy, Paul. “Structure de l’ovaire de la jument et son cycle évolutif en dehors de la gestation.” Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de la Société de Biologie. 1923.

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