The founders of a small, 10-bed hospital in 1904 could have had no way of knowing that it would evolve into an internationally known centre of pioneering heart surgery and genetic research. Nor could they have imagined the now common treatments that would control diabetes and cure leukemia. The first 100 years of The Montreal Children's Hospital, which spanned most of the 20th century, were a time of dizzying progress in improving--and saving--children's lives. Five authors, supported by a team of writer-researchers, editors, and photographers, provide an informative and entertaining look inside this ever-changing institution and its "family" of patients, staff and teaching and research teams.

Includes index. "Writers, Elizabeth Hirst ... [et al.]".