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BY the death of Dr. J. W. S. Macfie at the age of sixty-nine, tropical medical research has lost a Worker of outstanding ability and high character. He was educated at Oundle School and at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, taking the degrees of B.Sc. and M.B., Ch.B. (1906), and later the D.Sc. After residence at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and work in physiology under Sir Charles Sherrington, he took the diploma of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1910 and joined the West African Medical Staff. He investigated sleeping sickness in Nigeria and took charge of the Medical Research Institute there. In 1914 he became successively pathologist in charge and director of the medical laboratory at Accra, Gold Coast, and held this post until his retirement in 1923, with an interval from 1917 to 1919, when he worked in Liverpool with Prof. Warrington Yorke and others on malaria. Shortly before his retirement he designed the plan of the present Medical Research Institute at Accra. He afterwards studied in Liverpool and London, accompanied Dr. Melly with the British Red Cross to Abyssinia in 1935, and during the Second World War had war duties in London and went to Egypt, Palestine and Syria as malariologist in the R.A.M.C. He was awarded the Mary Kingsley Medal by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
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CORSON, J. Dr. J. W. S. Macfie. Nature 162, 805–806 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162805b0
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