Andrew Macphail

Sir Andrew Macphail, Kt, MD, MRCS (November 24 1864, Orwell, Prince Edward Island – September 23 1938, Montreal, Quebec) was a Canadian physician, author, professor of medicine, and soldier.

He received his medical degree from McGill University in 1891. In 1907 he was appointed McGill's first Professor of the History of Medicine and served in this position until 1937. In 1911, he became the founding editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. During World War I, he served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps and was later awarded a knighthood.

He wrote an essay on the poet, "An essay in character," for the 1919 edition of John McCrae's In Flanders Fields And Other Poems.

In 1930, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal.