Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott (March 18, 1869 - September 2, 1940) was a Canadian doctor and was one of Canada's earliest female medical graduates and an expert on congenital heart disease.

Born in St. Andrews East, Quebec , she was part of the third class of women students admitted to McGill University's Faculty of Arts. She received her B.A in 1890. She received her M.D from Bishop's University in 1894 and was the only woman in her class. She did post graduate study in medicine at Zurich , Vienna , Edinburgh and Glasgow. Returning back to Montreal she was appointed assistant curator at the McGill Pathological Museum in 1899, becoming curator 1901.

She was awarded an honorary medical degree in 1910 from McGill and was made a Lecturer in Pathology. She became an Assistant Professor in 1925.

She helped to found the Federation of Medical Women of Canada , a Canadian organization committed to the professional, social and personal advancement of women physicians, in 1924.

She was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 1994.

In 2000 Canada Post issued a forty-six cent postage stamp entitled The Heart of the Matter in her honour.

She wrote over 140 papers and books. Some of them include:

• The Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease
• Pigmentation-cirrhosis in a case of Haemochromatosis
• An Historical Sketch of the Medical Faculty of McGill University
• On the Classification of Museum Specimens-American Medicine
• The Museum in Medical Teaching
• Congenital Cardiac Disease in Osler's Modern Medicine
• The Determination of Basal Metabolism by Indirect Calorimetry
• Florence Nightingale as seen in her portraits
• McGill's Heroic Past

References

• "Miss Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott, M.D.." The Quebec History Encyclopedia. Accessed on March 23, 2005.
• "Maude Abbott." Library and Archives Canada. Accessed on March 23, 2005.