Enid Johnson Macleod (1909 – 17 May 2001) was a Canadian anaesthetist and

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Biography

Gladys Enid Johnson was born in Jacksonville,

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, Canada, 1909. She spent much of her early life in

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. She graduated from

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in 1937. At the urging of

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, she became a specialist anaesthetist. Together they pioneered the use of curare as a muscle relaxant, the first occasion being in support of an

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operation on 23 January 1942 at Montreal Homeopathic Hospital. She married lawyer Innis Gordon Macleod in 1942, then practised in

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, Nova Scotia for six years. She joined

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Faculty of Medicine in 1960 and retired in 1978 as emeritus professor. She was an active member of the Federation of Medical Women of Canada and its president from 1969 to 1970. Macleod died 17 May 2001. The Enid Johnson Macleod Award, 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.Federation of Medical Women of Canada
website.

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

1942 Anesthesiology journal extract (.pdf download)
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