Thompson

I can read pretty well and I know ever so many pieces of poetry off by heart--‘The Battle of Hohenlinden’ and ‘Edinburgh after Flodden,’ and ‘Bingen on the Rhine,’ and lots of the ‘Lady of the Lake’ and most of ‘The Seasons,’ by James Thompson.

In January 1922, Leonard Thompson, a fourteen-year-old boy who weighed only sixty-five pounds, became the first patient to receive it at Toronto General Hospital.