William Boyd (pathologist)
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Born | Portsoy, Scotland |
June 21, 1885
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Toronto, Canada |
Residence | Canada |
Citizenship | Canadian |
Nationality | Scottish, Canadian |
Fields | Medicine, Pathology, Neuropsychiatry |
Institutions | University of Manitoba, University of Toronto, University of British Columbia |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
Known for | Authorship of major textbooks of pathology |
Notable awards | Companion of the Order of Canada |
Spouse | Enid |
William Boyd, MB, ChB, MD, MRCP, CC (June 21, 1885 – March 10, 1979) was a Scottish-Canadian physician, pathologist, academic, and author known for his medical textbooks.
Biography
William was born in Portsoy, Scotland, the sixth child of Dugald Cameron Boyd (a Presbyterian clergyman) and Eliza Marion (née Butcher) Boyd. He received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1908, and went on to become trained and accredited as a neurologist, psychiatrist, and pathologist. Boyd worked as an attending physician and nominal pathologist at the Derby County Asylum in the English Midlands from 1909–1912, and at Winwick Hospital (another neuropsychiatric facility) from 1912–1913. He was a pathologist at Wolverhamptom Royal Infirmary from 1913 to August 1914.[1] During World War I, Boyd served as a general medical officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Flanders at the rank of captain (O3). In 1916 he wrote the book, With a Field Ambulance at Ypres,[2] describing his experiences as both a physician and an ordinary combatant in the war zone.
After the conflict, Boyd moved to Canada 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, in June 1919.[3] Boyd became a Professor of Pathology in the Manitoba Medical College at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, and, over the next 22 years, he wrote several pathology textbooks that were published and read internationally. These earned him worldwide recognition and financial security.[4] In 1937, he moved to the University of Toronto and, ultimately, in 1951 to the University of British Columbia. Boyd continued to be an active lecturer on medical-pathological topics well into this 80s, and spoke in many different countries.
In 1968, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor, "for his services as a pathologist and as a founding member of the National Cancer Institute".[5] Boyd died of pneumonia at the age of 93 in Toronto. He was survived by his wife Enid; the couple had had no children.
Selected works
- Surgical Pathology (1925)
- Pathology of Internal Disease (1931)
- Textbook of Pathology (1932)
- Introduction to Medical Science (1937)
See also
References
- ↑ Carr I: William Boyd: Silver Tongue & Golden Pen. Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publishers, Markham, Ontario, Canada, 1993.
- ↑ Boyd W: With a Field Ambulance at Ypres. George Doran Co., New York, 1916.
- ↑ Reference 1, op cit.
- ↑ Reference 1, op cit.
- ↑ Office of the Governor General of Canada. Order of Canada citation. Queen's Printer for Canada. Retrieved May 24, 2010
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- Canadian pathologists
- Companions of the Order of Canada
- People from Banff and Buchan
- Royal Army Medical Corps officers
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- University of British Columbia faculty
- University of Manitoba faculty
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- Canadian military personnel of World War I