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He was the first Queensland doctor, and probably the first Australian paediatrician, to be elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London (1940)As Jackson orator, McDonald spoke on 'Some debts of medicine to the fighting services' (M.J.A., 1940), and wrote the official text, 'Tropical and subtropical fevers', for army medical manuals in World War II. He delivered the Stawell oration on 'The mosquito: a teacher of medicine' (M.J.A., 1943). Having a sympathetic interest in ex-servicemen suffering from neuroses, he wrote extensively about anxiety neurosis and nephritis, with major papers on the problems of the pensioner and on nervous and neurological disorders. ADB