Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle (21 December 1845 – 1 August 1918) was a

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and founder of the

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Biography

Lachapelle was born on 21 December 1845 in

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to Pierre Persillier, '' dit'' Lachapelle, and Zoé Toupin. He attended the Petit Séminaire de Montréal, followed by the

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. Upon graduating in 1869, he began working as a physician at the

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. In parallel with his medical career, he was editor of ''L'Union médicale du Canada'' from 1876 to 1877. He joined the editorial committee from 1878 to 1882. In 1978, his career as a physician brought him to teach to medical students at the Université Laval de Montréal. He later became dean of this university's faculty of medicine in 1908. On 27 July 1880, he officially founded

. In 1899, the hospital acquired an

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machine, and a radiology suite was built. Lachapelle died on 1 August 1918 in Rochester, Minnesota, and was buried in Montreal a few days later.

References

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