François-Xavier Tessier

François-Xavier Tessier (September 15, 1799 - December 24, 1835) was a physician, publisher and federal politician from Lower Canada. He was born in Quebec City in 1799. He has studied medicine for several years and was qualified to practice as a surgeon in 1820. On the recommendation of the jury of medical examination, he studies medicine at New York University , and was qualified as a physician in 1823. The same year, he was appointed apothecary for the emigrant hospital in Quebec. In 1824 he was appointed assistant surgeon of the militia. In 1826, he created a bimonthly medical publication, Quebec Medical Journal / Journal de médecine de Québec; It was published until the end of 1827. He helped found the medical society of Quebec in 1826 and was later the President. Tessier lived in New York from 1828 to 1830, where he contributed to a local newspaper. In 1830 he returned to Quebec where he was appointed health officer for the port. Tessier was appointed administrator for a new hospital in Pointe-de-Lévy. He was dismissed from his post in Quebec following the cholera of 1832; This may have been at least in part because of Tessier's policy. In 1831, Tessier was elected to the councils of forensic pathologists in Quebec. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Saguenay in a by-election of 1833 after the death of Joseph-Isidore Bédard; He was re-elected in 1834. Tessier supported the Patriot party and voted in favor of ninety-two resolutions. In 1834 he was chosen as the doctor of the emigrant's hospital. He also taught medicine and set up a smallpox vaccination clinic in his home.

In 1835, he died at his office in Quebec City. Change the code

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