Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté as holy midwife (1794–1864).
Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté was born at Lavaltrie in 1794. Her recorded nationality is Canada.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
That the work was done from Canada matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté died in 1864, aged 70. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
