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July, 1951 The Health Bulletin 11the Mayo Foundation, and Dukeand Western Reserve University. He receivedhonorary degrees from the MedicalCollege of Vii'ginia and from DavidsonCollege. At various times, he wasspecial lecturer at Columbia University,George Washington University Schoolof Medicine, The Medical College of Virginia,Medical School.Retired Last YearDr. MacNider retired from teaching inJune, 1950, after completing fifty-oneyears of service. A graduate of the UniversityMedical School in 1903, he beganteaching while still an undergraduate,in 1899, as assistant in biology. He wasassistant in anatomy, from 1900 until1902; demonstrator in clinical pathology,from 1902 to 1905, and was Professor ofPharmacology and Bacteriology, from1905 until 1911. In his Alma Mater, Dr.MacNider established the first Departmentof Pharmacology in the South.This was in 1905. He was appointedKenan Professor of Pharmacology in1918. In this field, he ranked as one ofthe greatest research men in this country,and became internationally known.He formerly was head of the Age ResearchSociety of London. As a memberof the Committee on the nutritional aspectsof the National Research Council,this distinguished North Carolina physiciandirected studies in a Chicago Hospital,in an attempt to find the characterand the amount of diet, and the propervitamin supplement for ageing and agedindividuals who are mentally disturbed.Dr. MacNider gained worldwide recognition,as a result of discoveries hemade in diseases of the kidney, particularlyBright's. During the First WorldWar, his studies were used as the basisof treatment for nephritis among thearmed forces. As a result of researchcarried on for thirty-three years, showingthe effect of injury to tissues cells,he was awarded the George M. Kobermedal, which is one of the highestawards in medical science, by the Associationof American Physicians. In morethan a half century, the Association hasawarded this medal only nineteen times.Was Internationally KnownAlthough North Carolina was thehome base of this internationally knownmedical scientist, his experience and influenceextended to all sections. He servedas officer and Committee Chairmanin the leading medical societies ofAmerica. His reports of laboratory investigationshave appeared in medicalperiodicals for many years. In 1931, theNew York Academy of Science awardedhim the Gibbs Prize. A year later, theSouthern Medical Association presentedhim with its achievement medal. TheMedical College of Virginia gave him anhonorary degree of Doctor of Science,in 1933, and during the following year,Davidson College made him a Doctor ofLaws.Dr. MacNider was President of theAmerican Pharmacological Society;member of the Executive Council of theFederation of Societies for ExperimentalBiology; representative of the Nation'sPharmacologists on the InternationalBoard of Twelve Medical Examiners;President of the North Carolma MedicalSociety; Member of the InternationalResearch Council; Member of the NationalAcademy of Sciences, and of theAmerican Philosophical Society.There have been and will continue tobe many verbal and written tributes tothis distinguished medical scientist, butthese wUl be merely the echoes fromthe volume of verbal and written tributespaid him while he still lived andlabored in behalf of humanity. He washonored while he yet served, and not,belatedly, after he had passed into thatland where there is no need for theworking tools of the medical profession.In his fifty-one years of associationwith the University, as physician andteacher, Dr. MacNider grew in favoramong all with whom he was associated,and became affectionately known by hisfriends as 'Dr. Billy." The 1951, Yackety-Yack was dedicated to him and to Dr.William C. Coker, Kenan Research Professorof Botany Emeritus. Concerningboth men, the dedication paragraph hadthis to say: "To these men, who haveso given of their lives, energies, and devotions,we humbly dedicate this book,