McDONALD, SYDNEY FANCOURT

Furthermore

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

Book of Remembrance entry

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.

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1885

Birth in Rocklea -- QLD, Australia 18 November 1885
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Early education at Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
1909

Tertiary education at University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia 1909
1909

Tertiary education at University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia 1909
1914

Military service as Captain 16 August 1914
1914

Resident Medical Officer at London --, England 1914
1919

Member of Royal College of Physicians since 1919
1920

Military service 1 April 1920
1920

Physician to Outpatients at Brisbane -Hospital For Sick Children- Qld, Australia 1920
1938

Member of Royal Australasian College of Physicians since 1938
1940

Consultant Physician at Greenslopes Repatriation Hospital -- Brisbane, Australia 1940
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Physician at Brisbane -Rosemount Military Hospital- QLD, Australia
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Lecturer in Paediatrics at St Lucia -University of Queensland- Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Member of British Medical Association QLD branch
1947

Death in Brisbane -- QLD, Australia 8 August 1947

Gender

Male