Frederick Tisdall

Frederick Tisdall (1893–1949) was one of three Canadian pediatricians who developed the infant cereal Pablum. He first started working at The Hospital for Sick Children in 1921. In 1929,at the age of 36, he was made Director of the Nutritional Research Laboratories.[1] There, he and his colleagues worked for many months to make the cereal known as their greatest accomplishment. The Osler Library at McGill University holds a small collection of his letters.[2]

Frederick Tisdall

After his death, the questions were raised about the ethics of post-war experimentation he was carried out with Lionel Bradley Pett involving First Nations communities, known as the First Nations nutrition experiments.[3][4][5]

References
  1. Children, The Hospital for Sick. "Frederick Tisdall". www.sickkids.ca.
  2. "Frederick F. Tisdall Fonds". McGill Library Archival Catalogue. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  3. "Canada's Nutrition Experiments on First Nations 1942 to 1952".
  4. "Canada must apologize for nutritional experiments at residential school: Tseshaht". Ha-Shilth-Sa Newspaper. July 17, 2013.
  5. Shuchman, Miriam (October 1, 2013). "Bioethicists call for investigation into nutritional experiments on Aboriginal people". CMAJ. 185 (14): 1201–1202. doi:10.1503/cmaj.109-4576. PMID 23979873 – via www.cmaj.ca.
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