Enid Johnson Macleod
Enid Johnson Macleod (1909 – 17 May 2001) was a Canadian anaesthetist and medical doctor.
Biography[]
Gladys Enid Johnson was born in , New Brunswick, Canada, 1909. She spent much of her early life in Nova Scotia. She graduated from Dalhousie Medical School in 1937.
At the urging of Harold Griffith, she became a specialist anaesthetist. Together they pioneered the use of curare as a muscle relaxant, the first occasion being in support of an appendectomy operation on 23 January 1942 at .
She married lawyer in 1942, then practised in Sydney, Nova Scotia for six years. She joined Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine in 1960 and retired in 1978 as Emeritus Professor. She was an active member of the and its president from 1969 to 1970.[1]
Macleod died 17 May 2001. The , awarded annually to a physician or non-physician for promotion of women's health research and/or women’s health education, is named for her.[2]
Selected works[]
- Petticoat Doctors: The First Forty Years in Dalhousie University (Pottersfield Press, 1990, 2001)
References[]
Bibliography[]
- The Indomitable Lady Doctors (1984, 2001) by Carlotta Hacker
External links[]
- Memorial notice in Dalhousie University newsletter
- 1942 Anesthesiology journal extract (.pdf download)
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- 1909 births
- 2001 deaths
- Canadian anesthesiologists
- Canadian women physicians
- Canadian medical researchers
- 20th-century Canadian physicians
- People from Carleton County, New Brunswick
- 20th-century women physicians
- 20th-century Canadian women