Joseph Applebe Gilchrist

Rank:

Captain

Unit at enlistment:

Canadian Army Medical Corps

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Brantford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

455 Palmerston Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

Next of kin address:

455 Palmerston Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Physician

Religious denominations:

Presbyterian

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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BX September 27, 1951

First to Get Insulin, Doctor Born Here, Dies

Dr. Joseph Appelbe Gilchrist, 58, native of Brantford and the first walking diabetic patient to receive insulin treatment, died Wednesday at Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto. He was a medical practitioner in Toronto.

Contracting diabetes while training with the C.A.M.C. at Toronto during the First World War, Dr. Gilchrist was prohibited overseas service. During his year of practice he specialized in diabetes and was a personal friend of Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. C.H. Best.

Dr. Gilchrist graduated in arts and medicine in 1916 from the University of Toronto. After graduation he joined the C.A.M.C. Following the war he served until 1925, at Christie Street Hospital, Toronto. He was formerly a member of Lambton Golf Club. He was a member of various medical societies and the Masonic Order. He leaves his widow, Mary Curran Gilchrist, and two brothers, Dr. A.J. Gilchrist and George M. Gilchrist all of Toronto.