This second volume in the history of the McGill University Medical School begins a few years before the opening of the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1894 and traces the major developments in the institution's second half century. By this time the McGill Faculty of Medicine was already ranked among the best in North America; but went into decline by World War I. Over the next twenty years major reforms would create new research laboratories, expand library facilities, continue to modernize the Royal Victoria Hospital, open the Montreal Neurological Institute, establish a children's hospital, and...