Matthias Hoffmann
Matthias Hoffmann ( 1780 – 3 April 1851) was a Canadian physician and health officer.Hoffmann was likely born in Italy. He served as a medical assistant and surgeon with the Royal Navy before settling in Nova Scotia in 1811, working with prisoners of war at Melville Island. Also in 1811 he married Charlotte Mansfield, with whom he would have eight children. He left the navy in 1815 and began working in private practice.
He returned to Melville Island in 1831 as one of three physicians operating a quarantine hospital during an outbreak of smallpox. This marked the beginning of his involvement in public health: during a later cholera outbreak he was appointed to the new role of "health warden", the duties of which "ranged from supervising the cleaning of yards to the removal of the ill to the cholera hospitals". In 1840 he was appointed health officer after the incumbent died of typhus. His tenure was marked by significant struggles around quarantine regulations and management of immigrants. He died in 1851 after contracting typhus from an incoming vessel.
In 1843 he was given the honorary title of surgeon general to the Nova Scotia militia. He was also a founding member of the Halifax Medical Society in 1844. Provided by Wikipedia
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Relationship Banking in the Residential Mortgage Market? Evidence from Switzerland by Martin Brown, Matthias Hoffmann
Published 2016-01-01
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7-O-Esters of taxifolin with pronounced and overadditive effects in neuroprotection, anti-neuroinflammation, and amelioration of short-term memory impairment in vivo by Sandra Gunesch, Matthias Hoffmann, Carolina Kiermeier, Wolfgang Fischer, Antonio F.M. Pinto, Tangui Maurice, Pamela Maher, Michael Decker
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Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in healthcare workers from outpatient facilities and retirement or nursing homes in a Swiss canton by Kathrin Zürcher , Catrina Mugglin , Franziska Suter-Riniker , Peter M. Keller, Matthias Egger , Sandro Müller , Michael Fluri, Matthias Hoffmann , Lukas Fenner
Published 2021-08-01
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Specific human cytomegalovirus signature detected in NK cell metabolic changes post vaccination by Elena Woods, Vanessa Zaiatz-Bittencourt, Ciaran Bannan, Colm Bergin, David K. Finlay, Matthias Hoffmann, Anthony Brown, Bethany Turner, Shokouh Makvandi-Nejad, Ventzi Vassilev, Stefania Capone, Antonella Folgori, Tomáš Hanke, Eleanor Barnes, Lucy Dorrell, Clair M. Gardiner, PEACHI Consortium
Published 2021-09-01
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A Novel Vaccine Strategy Employing Serologically Different Chimpanzee Adenoviral Vectors for the Prevention of HIV-1 and HCV Coinfection by Felicity Hartnell, Anthony Brown, Stefania Capone, Jakub Kopycinski, Carly Bliss, Shokouh Makvandi-Nejad, Leo Swadling, Emma Ghaffari, Paola Cicconi, Mariarosaria Del Sorbo, Roberta Sbrocchi, Ilaria Esposito, Ventzislav Vassilev, Paula Marriott, Clair M. Gardiner, Ciaran Bannan, Colm Bergin, Matthias Hoffmann, Bethany Turner, Alfredo Nicosia, Alfredo Nicosia, Alfredo Nicosia, Antonella Folgori, Tomáš Hanke, Tomáš Hanke, Eleanor Barnes, Eleanor Barnes, Lucy Dorrell, Lucy Dorrell
Published 2019-01-01
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