Moloney's Life and Interests
Dr. Peter Moloney with his boys in 1930. Note that Oliver is holding a hand-made cardboard guitar. It seems that father Moloney cultivated the same exploratory creative spirit in his children that he had experienced as a youth in Powassan. Read More 0 Repin Likes
Gairdner International Award 1967 Moloney with Canada's Governor General Roland Michener and his wife. 0 Repin Likes
Dr. Moloney received several awards in the 1960s, and one of the most prestigious was the Gairdner International award presented by Canada's Governor General Roland Michener in 1967. 0 Repin Likes
Dr. Moloney received several awards in the 1960s, and one of the most prestigious was the Gairdner International award presented by Canada's Governor General Roland Michener in 1967. 0 Repin Likes
Dr. Peter Moloney knew Dr. Charles Best very well. Moloney would be called in to assist with the purification of insulin, and it was the original work of Dr. Moloney that helped to solve this urgent problem, leading to his Read More 0 Repin Likes
Peter Moloney on the St. Michael's College Hockey Team in Toronto, circa 1912. Discover more... https://drpetermoloney.com/ 0 Repin Likes
Peter Moloney with his mother and two sisters taken in 1901 at the family business, the Queen's Hotel. 0 Repin Likes
Toronto celebrated British victories in the South African War with gusto. This was the backdrop of life to young Peter Moloney. 0 Repin Likes
Powassan Ontario in 1899. This was home for young Peter Moloney. Catholics and Protestants worked together, especially in times of loss and illness. 0 Repin Likes
Powassan Ontario in 1899 looking north on King Street. This was home for young Peter Moloney. 0 Repin Likes
Powassan Ontario in 1899 looking north on King Street. This was home for young Peter Moloney. 1 Repin Likes
Powassan Ontario in 1899 looking down King Street to the blacksmiths. This was home for Peter Moloney. 1 Repin Likes
Many Irish immigrants to Canada had to spend a quarantine period in Quebec's Grosse I'lse. 0 Repin Likes
Moloney's ancestors braved the frigid waters of the Atlantic, cholera and typhus of disease riddled ships to make their way to Canada. 0 Repin Likes
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, Tsar Nicholas II's sister) and her grandchildren outside of Toronto. 0 Repin Likes
Despite the bloody murder of her family and the forced estrangement from her country, Olga never appeared dour or sullen. She joked often, and in her old age, her face was furrowed with deep wrinkles and laughter lines. “I always Read More 5 Repin Likes
Dr. Moloney's daughter, a nun, Mother St. Henry recalls, “My father and mother had an interest in many things. [For example], A Russian lady died in poverty in Toronto, the last of the Romanovs, Olga. She was laid out in Read More 129 Repin Likes
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War and Disease
Used as a "bulldog" to stir things up Mussolini broke free of his masters to establish an Imerical Fascist movement trying to echo a Roman past. 0 Repin Likes
"Peace for our time" was a declaration made by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Neville Chamberlain in his 30 September 1938 speech concerning the Munich Agreement. It proved to be a fiasco that justified German militaristic expansion and Read More 0 Repin Likes
1923: Gaston Ramon makes a breakthrough in the treatment of diphtheria. Photograph: LAPI/Roger Viollet/Getty Images 0 Repin Likes
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Medical Explorers and Contagion
Recover continued with purified insulin adminsistered in Toronto at Sick Kids Hospital and the diabetic clinic started by Banting, Best, and Gilchrist. 0 Repin Likes
The first human test was on January 23, 1922. 14-year-old Leonard Thompson was dying of the disease was injected. He was at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. The isletin was from the pancreas of an ox. Thompson felt Read More 0 Repin Likes
Dr. Joseph Gilchrist, a diabetic doctor and former college of Dr. Banting, was the first to receive experimental insulin in 1921. https://drpetermoloney.com/issues 0 Repin Likes
Produced buy Canada's Connaught Labs, made possible by the work of Dr. Peter Moloney in Toronto and Dr. Gaston Ramon in Paris. 0 Repin Likes
Common practice for auto-immune recovery was isolation, fresh air, and sunshine. 0 Repin Likes
See Dr. Peter Moloney's work with famed Dr. Gaston Ramon on an anti-toxin for Canada, the U.S, the U.K. and beyond. 0 Repin Likes
Medical Offic of Health Manitoba, Canada. See Dr. Peter Moloney's work with Dr. Gaston Ramon on an anti-toxin for Canada. 0 Repin Likes
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It was diphtheria that remained the leading killer among Canadian children under 14 until the mid-1920s. In Ontario alone, 36,000 children died from diphtheria between 1880 and 1929. This was suffering that inspired Dr. Fitzgerald to establish something like a Read More 0 Repin Likes
Not long ago, in 1864, Louis Pasteur gave us the germ theory of disease. "A little science takes you away from God but a lot of science takes you back to him..." http://drpetermoloney.com 1 Repin Likes
Pope John Paul II 22 October 1996. Pontifical Academy of Sciences: On Evolution 0 Repin Likes
God the Geometer. Science, and particularly geometry and astronomy/astrology, was linked directly to the divine for most medieval scholars. The compass in this 13th century manuscript is a symbol of God's act of Creation. God has created the universe after Read More 0 Repin Likes
Hildegard von Bingen. She was a nun who produced major works of theology and visionary writings. She is one of the few identifiable female artists of the medieval period, and the only known composer of Gregorian chant. She ran her Read More 0 Repin Likes
Guy Consolmangno, the Vatican’s Chief Astronomer, on Balancing Church With the Cosmos 0 Repin Likes
Andrew Gordon (15 June 1712 [NS 26 June] - 22 August 1751 [NS 2 September]) was a Scottish Benedictine monk, physicist and inventor. He made the first electric motor. 0 Repin Likes
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was also the first American to earn a PhD in Computer Science, which she earned in 1965 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She took her vows with the Sisters of Charity in 1940. Later she earned Read More 0 Repin Likes
Big Bang Theory. To those who complain about the Big Bang, all I have to say is that, as a Christian, I know better than to limit God. He could have done that. 0 Repin Likes
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