Peter McLaren

MCLAREN, M.D, L.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., PETER, physician and surgeon; b. 1841 in New Perth, son of James McLaren and Ann Stewart; Baptist; d. 1908. McLaren, a Conservative, was elected to the House of Assembly in the general election of 1882 for 3,d Kings. He was defeated in the general election of 1886. McLaren received his early education in local schools and at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown. He attended medical school at McGill University in Montreal and graduated in 1869. He went on to complete further medical studies in Edinburgh and graduated in 1879. While in Edinburgh, he studied with Dr. Joseph Lister, who was then engaged in an early study on the causes of infections in surgery. McLaren was one of the first doctors in the province to adopt antisepsis in surgery. He practised first in Brudenell, and later in Montague, from 1871 until his death. Peter McLaren died in 1908.