ON THIS DAY

January 26, 1891

Famed neurosurgeon Wilder Graves Penfield was born in Spokane, Wash. After arriving in Canada from New York in 1928, Penfield began work at the Royal Victoria Hospital at Mcgill University. There, he found the Montreal Neurological Institute and developed the ground-breaking “Montreal procedure” for the surgical treatment of epilepsy. The breakthrough was immortalized in the often-quoted Heritage Minute line, “Dr. Penfield, I smell

burnt toast!”