WAULES, JOHN – Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons By E. Cleave

AULES,
JOHN, M. D., of Montreal, Canada, was born at Perth Road, Dundee,
Scotland, May 26th, 1813 ; the second son of James Waules, a
well-known and respectable green cloth manufacturer. His father intended
that his sons should succeed to his own business, but the executors
decided to apprentice John, in his sixteenth year, to James Johnstone,
M. D., one of the executors, and a leading physician. Dr. Johnstone died
a year after, when the aptitude of his pupil for medical study induced
James Hay, Esq., another Trustee and Director of the Dundee Royal
Infirmary, to secure him the post of dresser and clinical clerk in the
hospital. The satisfactory manner in which he discharged the duties of
this position for several years is shown in the certificates of his
superiors.

     In 1831, Mr. Wattles
went to Edinburgh, and there studied in the Royal College of Surgeons,
under McIntosh, Ferguson, Liston, and other eminent Fellows, of whom
only Sir William Ferguson survives. Mr. Hay and the directors procured
him the position of surgeon on the whale ship “Thomas,” bound
for Davis’s Straits, in the spring of 1832, when he was but seventeen
years old. He made three voyages in the same ship, to the same waters,
during college vacations, and thereby greatly invigorated his
constitution. He passed his examination before the Faculty of Physicians
and Surgeons of Glasgow, early in 1835 ; was married to a Miss
McDonald, of Dundee, in his own walk in life, after several years’
engagement, and became House Surgeon of the Dundee Royal Infirmary. He
then built up a practice while occupying the house in which he was born
and married, and emigrated to London, Canada West. Success attended his
efforts. He became Coroner of the city and county, and won distinction
for his luminous presentation of evidence to juries.

     From being an active
opponent of the doctrine of similars, Dr. Wattles was converted to a
believer and earnest student. At the age of almost fifty years he went
to Toronto as a student, and was graduated from the University there as
a Bachelor of Medicine, in 1861, and Doctor the following year. He
removed to Montreal to practice, complimented by the press of London at
his departure.

     In politics, as in
medicine, Dr. Waules sought to conserve the good and eliminate the
effete and worthless. By spirited and able contributions to the Montreal
press he has done much to popularize homœopathy and establish its prime
tenets. He was instrumental in procuring an Act of Parliament in favor
of homœopathic education in the Province of Quebec, and enjoys a
lucrative and enviable practice. He is nominal Professor of the Practice
of Physic in the Homœopathic College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Lower Canada ; and his youngest son, John Robson Wattles, M. D., C.
M., is a graduate from McGill College, Montreal, and an assistant to his
father, whom he gives promise of succeeding.

     Dr. Waules is
Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow,
Scotland, and M. B. and M. D. of the University of Toronto, Ontario,
Dominion of Canada ; member of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Ontario, etc., etc.

Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave