FRCPath
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, (June 21, 1885 – March 10, 1979) was a
Scottish-Canadian
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physician
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...
,
pathologist
Pathology is the study of the causal, causes and effects of disease or injury. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices. However, when us ...
, academic, and author known for his medical textbooks.
Biography
William was born in
Portsoy
Portsoy ( gd, Port Saoidh) is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Historically, Portsoy was in Banffshire. The original name may come from ''Port Saoithe'', meaning "saithe harbour". Portsoy is located on the Moray Firth coast of northeast Scotlan ...
, Scotland, the sixth child of Dugald Cameron Boyd (a
Presbyterian
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clergyman) and Eliza Marion (née Butcher) Boyd. Educated at the
University of Edinburgh
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, he graduated M.B. Ch.B. in 1908, M.D. in 1911, and went on to become trained and accredited as a
neurologist
Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal c ...
,
psychiatrist
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, and
pathologist
Pathology is the study of the causal, causes and effects of disease or injury. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices. However, when us ...
. Boyd worked as an
attending physician
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and nominal pathologist at the Derby County Asylum in the English Midlands from 1909–1912, and at
Winwick Hospital
Winwick Hospital was a mental health facility at Winwick, Cheshire, England.
History
The hospital site was previously part of the Winwick Hall estate. The hall, which was initially converted for use as a residential home for boys with mental heal ...
(another neuropsychiatric facility) from 1912–1913. He was a pathologist at Wolverhampton Royal Infirmary from 1913 to August 1914.Carr I: ''William Boyd: Silver Tongue & Golden Pen''. Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publishers, Markham, Ontario, Canada, 1993. During
World War I
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, Boyd served as a general medical officer in the
Royal Army Medical Corps
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in Flanders at the rank of captain (O3). In 1916 he wrote the book, ''With a Field Ambulance at
Ypres
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the Dutch name is the official one, the city's French name is most commonly used in English. The municipality co ...
,'' describing his experiences as both a physician and an ordinary combatant in the war zone.
After the conflict, Boyd moved to
Canada
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at the urging of friends from medical school who were already working there. He married Enid Christie, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, in
Winnipeg
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, Manitoba in June 1919. Boyd became a Professor of Pathology in the Manitoba Medical College at the
University of Manitoba
The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a Canadian public research university in the province of Manitoba. In 1937, he moved to the
University of Toronto
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in
Toronto
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, Ontario and, ultimately, in 1951 to the
University of British Columbia
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in
Vancouver
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, British Columbia. Boyd continued to be an active lecturer on medical-pathological topics well into this 80s ??Check. Boyd died in 1979 and spoke in many different countries.
In 1968, he was made a Companion of the
Order of Canada
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To coincide with the ...
, Canada's highest civilian honor, "for his services as a pathologist and as a founding member of the National Cancer Institute". Boyd died of
pneumonia
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at the age of 93 in Toronto. He was survived by his wife Enid; the couple had had no children.
Selected works
* ''Pathology for Surgeons'' (1925)
* ''Pathology of Internal Disease'' (1931)
* ''Textbook of Pathology'' (1932)
* ''Introduction to Medical Science'' (1937)
See also
*
Pathology
Pathology is the study of the causes and effects of disease or injury. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices. However, when used in ...
*
List of pathologists
A list of people notable in the field of pathology.
A
* John Abercrombie, Scottish physician, neuropathologist and philosopher.
* Maude Abbott (1869–1940), Canadian pathologist, one of the earliest women graduated in medicine, expert in co ...
Internet Archive
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The Canadian Encyclopedia
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Available fo ...
Vancouver General Hospital
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