Malcolm “Mac” Holliday, Jr., a doctor who pioneered kidney treatments for children and retired in Inverness, died on March 26. He was 90.
Mac was born on January 12, 1924, in Staunton, Virginia, a low-lying city in a valley between the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east and the Appalachians to the west. At age 3 he was hospitalized with a kidney infection. A year before the discovery of penicillin, doctors had a choice between…