Gladys Enid Johnson was born in
Jacksonville,
New Brunswick, Canada, 1909. She spent much of her early life in
Nova Scotia. She graduated from
Dalhousie Medical School in 1937. At the urging of
Harold Griffith, she became a specialist anaesthetist. Together they pioneered the use of
curare as a
muscle relaxant, the first occasion being in support of an
appendectomy operation on 23 January 1942 at
Montreal Homeopathic Hospital. She married lawyer
Innis Gordon Macleod in 1942, then practised in
Sydney, Nova Scotia for six years. She joined
Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine in 1960 and retired in 1978 as
emeritus professor. She was an active member of the
Federation of Medical Women of Canada and its president from 1969 to 1970. Macleod died 17 May 2001. The
Enid Johnson Macleod Award, awarded annually to a physician or non-physician for promotion of women's health research and/or women's health education, is named for her. ==Selected works==