John George Macleod

John George Macleod

John George Macleod (born May 8, 1915 in Kirkhill , United Kingdom , † April 4, 2006 in Edinburgh ) was a Scottish medic and medical specialist author.

family

John George Macleod was the son of Alasdair MacGillivray Macleod and Margaret Ingram Sangster. His sister was the academics Anna MacGillivray Macleod . His younger brother was named Alasdair MacGillivray Macleod and was a general in Linlithgow . His second cousin was the British politician Iain Norman Macleod . On December 21, 1942, John married George Macleod. They had two sons and a daughter.

Career

Macleod attended George Watson's College and studied medicine at Edinburgh University , where he graduated in 1938. During World War II from 1939 to 1945 he was a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps . In 1941 he received a post at Edinburgh University and in 1947 he was appointed a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh . In 1950 he became a consulting physician at the Edinburgh Western General Hospital .

In 1964, Macleod wrote the medical manual Clinical Examination (later renamed Macleod's clinical examination ), the twelfth edition of which was published in 2009 and sold up to a million times. In 1964, the physician Sir Stanley Davidson offered him to revise Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine , of which more than two million copies were sold worldwide. Macleod contributed to six editions. These textbooks were instrumental in keeping Edinburgh an important place on the medical map of the world. The standard works have been translated into many languages, including Japanese and Russian. In 1971 Macloed became Vice-Chairman of the Department of Medicine of the Western General Hospital . He died in Edinburgh in April 2006 at the age of 90.

Personal

He was interested in art and gave lectures where he presented illustrations that he had collected on art in medicine. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the Traverse Theater and a garden designer.

Individual evidence

• Martin Eastwood, Michael Matthews: John George Macleod. In: BMJ. 2006 Sep 9; 333 (7567): 553. PMC 1562516 (free full text)
• The Macleods - The Genealogy of a Clan, Section Four by Alick Morrison, MA, by Associated Clan Macleod Societies, Edinburgh, 1974
• The MacLeods - The Genealogy of a Clan, Section Four by The Late Major Loudoun Hector Davenport MacLeod, RM, 1988