John George Macleod
John George Macleod (8 May 1915 in Kirkhill – 4 April 2006 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish doctor of medicine and a writer of medical textbooks. Family. Macleod was the elder brother of Professor Dr Anna MacGillivray Macleod; his younger brother was Dr Alasdair MacGillivray Macleod, a general practitioner in Linlithgow. He was the son of Margaret Ingram Sangster, MA, and Rev. Alasdair MacGillivray Macleod, and the grandson of Rev. George Macleod of Garrabost, Isle of Lewis. He was second cousin to the Right Hon. Iain Norman Macleod, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1970. The  branch of the Macleods of Pabbay and Uig belongs to the Lewis family MacLeod. On 21 December 1942, John George Macleod married Nancie Elizabeth Clark. Their issue are two sons, Peter and Keith and a daughter, Gillian. Career. Macleod was educated at George Watson's College and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1938. During the Second World War, from 1939 to 1945, he was a major in the army at the Royal Army Medical Corps. In 1941, he obtained a post at the University of Edinburgh and, in 1947, was asked to become a  member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. In 1950, he became a consultant physician at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital. In 1964, Macleod wrote the medical handbook "Clinical Examination" (later renamed "Macleod's Clinical Examination"), which is still (in 2017) in print in its 13th Edition and has sold close to a million copies. In 1964, the physician Sir Stanley Davidson offered him the opportunity to update "Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine", which sold more than two million copies worldwide and of which Macleod contributed to six editions. These two textbooks played a crucial part in  keeping Edinburgh on the world map of medicine and were translated into many languages such as Japanese and Russian. In 1971, he was appointed vice-chairman of the University Department of Medicine of the Western General Hospital. He died in Edinburgh in April 2006, aged 90. Personal Note. He was interested in art and gave lectures on Art in Medicine with slides he had collected. He also was an enthusiastic supporter of the Traverse Theatre, and a keen gardener and garden designer.