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Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds
CA ON00343 0094 · Fonds · 1932-1993

The Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds consists of 21 series of textual records documenting the life and work of the pioneering Canadian heart surgeon, medical researcher, and co-developer of the cardiac pacemaker, Dr. Wilfred G. Bigelow:

0094-1 Appointment books
0094-2 Medical textbooks
0094-3 Case histories
0094-4 Medical conference programs
0094-5 Patient/surgery lists
0094-6 General patient files
0094-7 Correspondence
0094-8 Experimental and clinical research files
0094-9 Lectures and speeches
0094-10 Diagnoses and procedures
0094-11 Medical research grants-in-aid
0094-12 Professional Societies, Associations and Committees
0094-13 Toronto General Hospital files
0094-14 Medical insurance accounts
0094-15 University of Toronto files
0094-16 Medical journal publications
0094-17 Meetings
0094-18 Japanese publications on hypothermia research
0094-19 Travel files
0094-20 Medical office expenses
0094-21 Income tax returns

Collectively, the materials comprising this fonds illustrate virtually every aspect of Dr. Bigelow's personal and professional life as a surgeon and hospital division head, academic instructor and researcher, clinical investigator, author, lecturer, medical conference presenter and panellist, and member of numerous medical societies and medical/scientific committees.

In particular the fonds provides information about Dr. Bigelow's contributions to the advancement of cardiac surgery and the treatment of heart disease, especially his central accomplishments in contributing to the innovation and development of the surgical use of hypothermia in open-heart surgery and the electrical artificial cardiac pacemaker.

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Medical textbooks
CA ON00343 0094-2 · Series · 1932-1987
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

This series consists of four medical textbooks annotated by Dr. Bigelow in the course of his research, surgical, teaching and reviewing activities.

File 0094-2-0-4 contains, affixed to the inside front cover, a presentation card from the author addressed to Dr. Bigelow. Dr. Bigelow has annotated the card: "1994 - I was asked to write the book review by Anne [?] Sabaston - Annals Surg."

CA ON00343 0094-3-3-4 · Subseries · 1953-1969
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

This sub-series consists of patient case files illustrating Dr. Bigelow's surgical treatment of auricular/atrial septal defects. Files pertaining to Dr. Bigelow's public patients are arranged alphabetically by patient surname. The remaining files are ordered by patient case number, which can be found on the physical records. Patient case numbers have been omitted from file titles to ensure compliance with Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA), but the original order has been retained.

CA ON00343 0094-3-3-10 · Subseries · 1950-1976
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

This sub-series consists of patient case files illustrating mitral commissurotomy surgeries performed by Dr. Bigelow. The files are ordered by patient case number, which can be found on the physical records. Patient case numbers have been omitted from file titles to ensure compliance with Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA), but the original order has been retained.

CA ON00343 0094-3-3-12 · Subseries · 1962-1968
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

This sub-series consists of patient case files illustrating pacemaker insertion surgeries performed by Dr. Bigelow. The files are ordered by patient case number, which can be found on the physical records. Patient case numbers have been omitted from file titles to ensure compliance with Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA), but the original order has been retained.

CA ON00343 0094-3-3-14 · Subseries · 1953-1976
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

This sub-series consists of patient case files illustrating aorto-iliac arterial graft surgeries performed by Dr. Bigelow. The files are ordered by patient case number, which can be found on the physical records. Patient case numbers have been omitted from file titles to ensure compliance with Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA), but the original order has been retained.

CA ON00343 0094-3-3-17 · Subseries · 1953-1962
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

This sub-series consists of patient case files illustrating aortic valvoplasty surgeries performed by Dr. Bigelow. The files are ordered by patient case number, which can be found on the physical records. Patient case numbers have been omitted from file titles to ensure compliance with Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA), but the original order has been retained.

General patient files
CA ON00343 0094-6 · Series · 1948-1978
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

This series consists of a 10% selection of Dr. Bigelow's general patient case files. These files contain predominantly correspondence and standard medical records pursuant to Dr. Bigelow's examination of, or consultation with, patients referred by other physicians. The files do contain some examples of surgical cases, but surgical case files are predominantly collected in Series 0094-3, Case histories.

Files typically contain correspondence between Dr. Bigelow and a referring physician, and standard medical documents including operation records, consultation records, clinical histories, discharge summary reports, cardiovascular rounds reports, pathology reports, radiology reports, heart catheterization reports, angiograms, and electrocardiograms. The files also contain documents relating to patients' medical insurance and bills for service.

Patient case numbers have been omitted from file titles to ensure compliance with Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA), but the original order has been retained.

Correspondence
CA ON00343 0094-7 · Series · 1947-1977
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

Series consists of general professional and personal correspondence sent and received by Dr. Bigelow between 1947 and 1977. The arrangement of these files preserves the division of Dr. Bigelow's correspondence into three categories by various medical secretaries under Dr. Bigelow's general direction.

Files 0094-7-0-1 to 0094-7-0-5 contain personal correspondence between Dr. Bigelow and his friends and family. Files 0094-7-0-6 to 0094-7-0-10 contain correspondence between Dr. Bigelow and medical colleagues and others on professional matters, including consultations about specific patients, their medical problems and treatment. Files 0094-7-0-11 to 0094-7-0-18 contain correspondence of a more personal, casual nature between Dr. Bigelow and various professional friends, and correspondence pertaining to Dr. Bigelow's personal professional career.

File 0094-7-0-19 contains correspondence generally concerning Dr. Bigelow's philosophical interest in metaphysics and in particular relating to an article published in the Montreal Gazette, December 18, 1970, regarding Dr. Bigelow's thoughts on the nature of the human soul.

Diagnoses and procedures
CA ON00343 0094-10 · Series · 1947-1964
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

Series consists principally of operation records and discharge summaries for a selection of Dr. Bigelow's surgical cases, organized by medical problem/ surgical procedure, and used as an aid for diagnosis and the determination of appropriate surgical procedures for use with new patients. These files were also used for research purposes in preparing case study reports and statistical analyses of specific surgeries. Some of the files are subdivided by facets of the medical problem/ surgical procedure exemplified: for example, File 0094-10-0-10 subdivides records exemplifying patent ductus arteriosus surgery into sections devoted to "division" and "ligation".

Medical insurance accounts
CA ON00343 0094-14 · Series · 1970-1978
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

The materials comprising this series consist of remittance advices and account statements issued by various medical insurance agencies pursuant to medical services provided by Dr. Bigelow, and correspondence between these agencies and Dr. Bigelow's office.

University of Toronto files
CA ON00343 0094-15 · Series · 1948-1976
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

The files comprising this series document Dr. Bigelow's professional academic activities as a member of the Faculty of Medicine and Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto, including his service on various institutional committees. The materials comprising the series include lecture schedules, academic curricula, correspondence, notices and minutes of meetings, and committee reports. File 0094-15-0-29 includes a list of medical staff titles and correspondence from other centres describing their academic conventions. File 0094-15-0-30 includes the terms of reference for the UofT Department of Surgery’s Personnel Committee.

Case histories
CA ON00343 0094-3 · Series · 1949-1979
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

This series consists of patient case files illustrating various surgical problems and techniques, medical conditions and treatments. The materials in this series have been arranged into 20 sub-series, each dedicated to a specific medical or surgical subject:

0094-3-1 Case Histories - Ventriculomytomy
0094-3-2 Case Histories - Aorto-Coronary Bypass
0094-3-3 Case Histories - Hypothermia
0094-3-4 Case Histories - Auricular/Atrial Septal Defect
0094-3-5 Case Histories - Mitral Valvoplasty
0094-3-6 Case Histories - Aortic Valves Homograft
0094-3-7 Case Histories - Aortic Bicuspidization
0094-3-8 Case Histories - Coarctation of Aorta
0094-3-9 Case Histories - Mitral Annuloplasty
0094-3-10 Case Histories - Mitral Commissurotomy
0094-3-11 Case Histories - Tricuspid Annuloplasty
0094-3-12 Case Histories - Pacemaker Insertion
0094-3-13 Case Histories - Pericardiectomy
0094-3-14 Case Histories - Aorto-Iliac Arterial Graft
0094-3-15 Case Histories - Atrial Myxoma
0094-3-16 Case Histories - Sinus of Valsalva
0094-3-17 Case Histories - Aortic Valvoplasty
0094-3-18 Case Histories - Abdominal (Aortic) Aneurysm
0094-3-19 Case Histories - Combined Aorto-Coronary Bypass/Internal Mammary Artery Implant
0094-3-20 Case Histories - Internal Mammary Artery Implant

Case history files typically contain standard medical documents including operation records, consultation records, autopsy reports, clinical histories, discharge summary reports, cardiovascular rounds reports, pathology reports, radiology reports, heart catheterization reports, angiograms, and electrocardiograms. The files also contain correspondence between Dr. Bigelow and medical colleagues and/or patients, and documents relating to patients' medical insurance and bills for service.

The materials in this series document developments in the medical and surgical treatment of specific cardiovascular defects and provide evidence of Dr. Bigelow's contributions to the innovation and development of such treatments.

Although most of the surgical procedures documented in this series were first performed predominantly on public ward patients, the files comprising this series are nearly exclusively those of Dr. Bigelow's private patients, whose medical records he was responsible for maintaining. Case files for public ward patients were maintained by the Toronto General Hospital's Department of Medical Records, and files compiled prior to 1980 have largely been destroyed.

CA ON00343 0094-3-3-1 · Subseries · 1960-1978
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

This sub-series consists of patient case files illustrating ventriculomyotomies performed by Dr. Bigelow. Files pertaining to Dr. Bigelow's public patients are arranged alphabetically by patient surname. The remaining files are ordered by patient case number, which can be found on the physical records. Patient case numbers have been omitted from file titles to ensure compliance with Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA), but the original order has been retained.

CA ON00343 0094-3-3-5 · Subseries · 1952-1977
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

This sub-series consists of patient case files illustrating mitral valvoplasties performed by Dr. Bigelow. The files are ordered by patient case number, which can be found on the physical records. Patient case numbers have been omitted from file titles to ensure compliance with Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA), but the original order has been retained.

CA ON00343 0094-3-3-9 · Subseries · 1952-1977
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

This sub-series consists of patient case files illustrating mitral annuloplasty surgeries performed by Dr. Bigelow. Files pertaining to Dr. Bigelow's public patients are arranged alphabetically by patient surname. The remaining files are ordered by patient case number, which can be found on the physical records. Patient case numbers have been omitted from file titles to ensure compliance with Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA), but the original order has been retained.

CA ON00343 0094-3-3-19 · Subseries · 1968-1977
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

This sub-series consists of patient case files illustrating combined aorto-coronary bypass/ internal mammary artery implant surgeries performed by Dr. Bigelow. The files are ordered by patient case number, which can be found on the physical records. Patient case numbers have been omitted from file titles to ensure compliance with Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA), but the original order has been retained. Files pertaining to Dr. Bigelow's staff patients are arranged alphabetically by patient surname.

CA ON00343 0094-3-3-20 · Subseries · 1953-1979
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

This sub-series consists of patient case files illustrating internal mammary artery implant surgeries performed by Dr. Bigelow. The files are ordered by patient case number, which can be found on the physical records. Patient case numbers have been omitted from file titles to ensure compliance with Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA), but the original order has been retained.

The files are arranged in three groups. Group A consists of the case files of some of the patients who participated in an Internal Mammary Artery Implant follow-up study conducted in 1977 by Dr. Bigelow and several colleagues at the Toronto Hospital. Related material is found in Series 0094-8, Files 0094-8-0-62 and -63. Group B consists of files grouped by Dr. Bigelow - "patients who died or had revascularization after first surgery." File # 0094-3-20-25 is also part of this group but for administrative purposes was filed with Group A. Group C is a selection of patient case files illustrating Dr. Bigelow's internal mammary artery implant surgeries 1953-1967 (i.e. prior to the period covered in Group A).

Medical conference programs
CA ON00343 0094-4 · Series · 1960-1977
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

Series consists of programs of annual clinical, research, and scientific meetings of various medical associations and societies. The programs contain meeting agendas, names of participants, and the titles, and in some instances, abstracts of papers presented at the meeting.

Several of the programs have been annotated by Dr. Bigelow with critical notes pursuant to papers presented at the meeting. The programs are useful as evidence of Dr. Bigelow's participation in continuing education activities and in the affairs of various professional medical associations and societies, and the annotations provide evidence of his opinion of research conducted by medical colleagues.

Programs for some years are missing from the range indicated by file titles.

File 0094-4-0-13 includes material from:

  1. International Medical Assembly of Southwest Texas, 24th Annual Meeting, 1960.
  2. Silver Jubilee Celebrations of the Association of Surgeons of India & the Final Joint Session of the Indian Society of Anaesthetists, 1964.
  3. American College of Chest Physicians, 33rd Annual Meeting, 1967.
  4. 2nd Henry Ford Hospital International Symposium on Cardiac Surgery, 1975.
CA ON00343 0094-8 · Series · [194-?]-1977
Part of Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds

Series consists of materials pursuant to experimental and clinical research in cardiovascular medicine and surgery conducted or consulted by Dr. Bigelow and his colleagues and research assistants. Included are correspondence; statistics and summary reports of success/mortality rates relating to particular surgeries at the Toronto General Hospital; reprints and abstracts of pertinent articles; research papers presented at medical conferences and association meetings and other venues; documents relating to proposals for funding of research studies either prepared by Dr. Bigelow and/or his colleagues, or appraised by Dr. Bigelow; prospectuses for clinical studies and experiments; and case study reports.

File 0094-8-0-2 contains correspondence supporting Bills 73 and 194, introduced in the Ontario Legislature in 1969, and which provided that unwanted animals be sold to research laboratories; and correspondence from and about an anti-vivisectionist.

File 0094-8-0-5 contains data and summary reports of a clinical post-operative study (conducted in 1966) of aortic valve replacements with the Starr-Edwards Prosthetic Heart Valve, and documents pertaining to a proposed prosthetic valve replacement follow-up clinic and computerized patient registry at the Toronto General Hospital, 1973-1974. See also Series 0094-9, File 0094-9-0-2 for a lecture and research paper, "Aortic Valve Replacement 1963-1972: Long Term Results".

Files 0094-8-0-11 to 0094-8-0-15 contain correspondence relating to the administration of the cardiovascular laboratory in the Banting Research Institute, with information pertaining to staffing, budgets, equipment, space allocation and renovation.

File 0094-8-0-27 contains material relating to the First International Roundtable Conference on Fascia Lata Heart Valves, held at Toronto in October 1970 and co-organized by Dr. Bigelow.

File 0094-8-0-34 contains correspondence relating to the supply and maintenance of subject animals (groundhogs) for hibernation research conducted by Dr. Bigelow and his colleagues in the Cardiovascular Unit of the Banting Research Institute.

File 0094-8-0-42 contains correspondence and data relating to the identification, extraction, analysis and clinical-surgical use of Hibernin, an extract of the hibernating gland of hibernal animals.

Files 0094-8-0-49 to 0094-8-0-58 contain materials relating to hypothermia research conducted by Dr. Bigelow and his colleagues and research assistants. Several theses produced by various research assistants and containing detailed experimental data have been retained by Dr. Bigelow but are expected to be donated to the Toronto Hospital Archives. Related material is filed in Series 0094-12, File 0094-12-0-107.

File 0094-8-0-59 contains annual reports of hypothermia and hibernation research prepared by Dr. Bigelow and his colleagues for various funding agencies, including the Defence Research Board, National Research Council, Ontario Heart Foundation, and the McLean Foundation.

Files 0094-8-0-67 to 0094-8-0-71 contain, among other matter, reviews/appraisals of applications for research grants conducted by Dr. Bigelow, in particular for the Department of National Health and Welfare.

File 0094-8-0-97 contains annual reports prepared by members of the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto (including Dr. Bigelow) for the Dean of Medicine. These reports summarize research in progress and other significant achievements including publications and grants received.