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McDONALD, SYDNEY FANCOURT. 1905.
Brisbane G.S.; Trinity; M.D., B.S.; Capt. M.U.R.C. 1909, first C.O. of M.U.R. 1910-13.
London 16.8.14, R.A.M.C., T/Lieut. No. 4 G.H. Versailles; T/Capt. November 1914; to No. 26 G.H. 1916; to Isolation Hospital; No. 33 C.C.S. 1917; No. 46 S.H. 1918; April 1918 Phy sician Specialist with rank of Major. France and England. Sick 3rd November-29th December 1918. Despatches 1.1.16. Returned March 1920.
Publications
McDonald wrote major papers on nephritis, lead poisoning in children, poliomyelitis and pink disease. His name is the most frequent in the index of the Medical Journal of Australia in 1920-46.
Visible notes
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