John James Rickard MacLeod
From "A History of Cleveland Ohio" Biographical, Illustrated Volume ll. Chicago-Cleveland. The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. 1910. Page 324 and 325. Transcribed by Robin Mosier
John James Rickard Macleod, M.B., Ch. B., D. Ph., whose various degrees are indicative of his scholarship and his qualification for responsible professional service, was born in Dunkeld, Scotland, September 6, 1876. His father, the Rev. Robert Macleod, is a minister of the church of Scotland and is still active in his chosen work at Aberdeen at the age of sixty-seven years. The mother, Mrs. Jane (McWalter) Macleod, is still living.
After attending the grammar schools of Aberdeen, Scotland, Dr. Macleod continued his studies in Aberdeen University and was graduated there from in 1898 with the degrees of M.B. and Ch. B. As a class honor he received the Anderson traveling scholarship and went to Leipsic and Berlin where he spent over a year in the study of physiology. He next entered the London Hospital where he acted as demonstrator of physiology for about four years. Meanwhile he obtained the MacKinnon scholarship for research from the Royal Society and took the D. Ph. degree at Cambridge, England, in 1902.
Dr. Macleod came to Cleveland in September, 1903, to accept the position of professor of physiology in the medical department of the Western Reserve University, which position had been proffered him and which chair he has since filled. His duties here are purely of an educative character and mostly in the line of research work concerning physiology and physiological chemistry. Dr. Macleod has become a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, the American Physiological Society, the American Society of Biological Chemists, the Society of Experimental Biology & Medicine, and the British Physiological Society. Since coming to Cleveland he became a member of the NU Sigma Nu. He is also the author of the chapters on Biochemistry in Practical Physiology, which was published by Edward Arnold in London in 1902 and is now in its third edition. He also wrote the chapters on Haemolysis, Metabolism of Purins and of Carbohydrates in Recent Advances in Physiology, edited by Leonard Hill, F. R. S., 1906. He is also joint author with Dr. H. D. Haskins of Organic Chemistry, published by J. Wilie & Sons, New York, in 1907. He has been a contributor to various medical journals, including a series of articles on Experimental Glyosuria in the American Journal of Physiology, and also articles on Caisson Disease, Chemistry of the Carbamates, and the Metabolism of Purin Bodies.
On the 22d of July, 1903, Dr. Macleod was married in Paisley, Scotland, to Miss Mary McWalter, a daughter of the late Robert McWalter, of that city. Mrs. Macleod is an artist of merit and is prominent in the art circles of Cleveland. They reside at No. 10910 Ashbury avenue. Dr. Macleod is a lover of golf, which constitutes his chief source of recreation. He belongs to the University Club and to the Second Presbyterian church. Since coming to America he has won recognition as one whose scholarly attainments and research place him with the eminent medical educators in the county.
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