In 1899 he became assistant physician at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary also assisting at the Deaconess Hospital in the south of the city. At this time he was living at 6 Atholl Place in Edinburgh's West End.[5]
In 1919 he left the Medical Corps to replace Professor William Russell as Professor of Clinical Medicine (known at the Moncrieff-Arnott Chair) at the University of Edinburgh.
He lived at 22 Manor Place in Edinburgh's West End.[8]
He died on 4 April 1922 and is buried in Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh. The grave lies on the main path close to the main entrance.
Family
In 1904 he married Clara Constance Lepper (1875-1961), the daughter of Alfred J. A. Lepper. Together they had 2 daughters, Lesbia Laurence Meron Boyd (1907-1993) and the sculptor Mary Syme Boyd (1910-1997), and a son, John Boyd, who died in infancy in 1905.[1][9]
Publications
Pellagra among the Turkish Prisoners of War (1920)