The Glasgow Southern Medical Society

Listen again: Honorary Presidential Address - Recent advances in breast cancer

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:47:36 PDT

Alternatively, you can download the mp3 file here.

Listen again: Presidential Address - The Scots and Scotch

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:37:43 PDT

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Notice of meeting: Honorary Presidential Address

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:44:54 PDT

Dr Sheila Stallard, our Honorary President, will be addressing the Society on Thursday 15th March. The title of her talk is 'Recent advances in breast cancer' The meeting will be held at the Ebenezer Duncan Centre with a buffet meal from 6.15pm and the lecture starting at 7pm. All welcome.

We're on Twitter

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:44:50 PST

As you may have noticed on the righthand panel, we now have a Twitter feed to complement the main website. Follow @GSMedSoc

Notice of meeting: 9th February 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:23:45 PST

We are delighted to announce that Dr Matthew Dunnigan has stepped in at short notice to speak at our February meeting. It promises to be a very interesting and provocative evening - definitely not one to be missed!

February meeting

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:34:19 PST

Kindly note that our speaker for the February meeting is unable to attend. We are currently looking for an alternative speaker and more details will be posted.

Notice of meeting: 12th January 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:31:59 PST

One hundred years ago

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:06:19 PDT

1911 address by Sir William Osler:

Session 1911-12 LXIX
Meeting No.1.

The Society met in the Faculty Hall, 242 St. Vincent St. on Thurs. Oct. 5th at 8.30p.m., the President in the chair.

Business
Sir William Osler, Baronet, the Honorary President, delivered a most instructive address on "The advantages and disadvantages of a High Blood Pressure". In his opening remarks he referred in detail to the similarity between the various facts of the circulation of the blood and the various facts on the irrigation by the hills of the surrounding country. He then divided into three groups patients with high blood pressure - viz: firstly, those with high blood pressure, no arterio-sclerosis, no renal changes; secondly, those with high blood pressure, arterio-sclerosis and no renal disease; thirdly those with all three. These groups were illustrated by typical cases. The address, which was not only most instructive but also very interesting, was listened to by a large audience of nearly 200,including several ladies. After Dr TK Munro had avowed a vote of thanks the lecturer gave as his parting word the advice "Don't have your blood pressure taken!" This was all the business.
HENRY L.G. LEASK

1. Transcript.
The above transcript was taken from the seventh minute book of the society, covering the period from 1910 to 1923.
In 1911 William Osler was Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, a post he had held since 1905. In the year he gave this talk, he founded the Postgraduate Medical Association, of which he was the first president, and was made a baronet in the Coronation Honours List for his contributions to the field of medicine.
Dr Henry Leask was president of the society from 1911-12. He had previously been auditor (1906-7), member of council (1909-10), and vice-president (1910-11).

Notes on transcription
To create this transcript, the original minute book was scanned, and the scans were then uploaded to the Internet Archive, and thence to Wikisource. Wikisource is part of the Wikimedia Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the spread of knowledge. The book’s contents will be held safely on their servers in perpetuity. On the Wikisource site it is possible to see the scan in closeup next to a text box, making the process of transcription easier and obviating the need to handle the books themselves. This particular page has been transcribed, but many more have not. Why not try it for yourself and help to archive our heritage? Go to www.wikisource.org. You will then be able to transcribe/proofread pages from our minute books.

Notice of meeting: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Sir William Osler's Address to the Society

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:48:19 PDT

Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow syllabus 2011-12

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:57:11 PDT

From the archive: Minute Book 4 1890 - 1895

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:35:01 PDT

Book 4 covering the years 1890 to 1895 of the Society's Minutes is now available:

Minute Book 4

This is part of the scanning project to digitise the entire collection of Minute Books of the Society.

Scanned by Dr John Glen, processed and uploaded to the Internet Archive by Dr Jonathan Oates.

From the archive: Minute Book 1

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:34:07 PDT

A typewritten transcript of the first minutes of the Society covering the foundation and years 1844-1845 is now available:

Minute Book 1

This is part of the scanning project to digitise the entire collection of Minute Books of the Society.

Scanned by Dr John Glen, processed and uploaded to the Internet Archive by Dr Jonathan Oates.

From the archives: Minute Book 1 1844 - 1845

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:21:11 PDT

We are delighted to announce that Minute Book 1 in the form of a typewritten transcript has been digitised and is now available on the Internet Archive:

Minute Book 1

The book was scanned by Dr John Glen, and processed and uploaded by Dr Jonathan Oates. This forms part of our major project to scan and digitise the complete minute book archive of the Society.

We hope these will be of interest to members of the Society and to others with a penchant for medical history.

High resolution images are available to bona fide medical historians on application to the Secretary.

The Minute Book scanning project

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:01:25 PST

Members who regularly attend our meetings will know that we have embarked on a project to digitise the Society's minute books. The paper volumes are currently archived at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and are only available for reading by special request. The scanning project will make our minute books available for anyone to read online or by download to a PC or mobile device.

In a future post, we will outline the technical details of the project. For now, however, we are pleased to release the first volume to be scanned.

Minute Book Volume 7 (1910-1923) - view online

or download a copy for viewing on your computer or mobile device. If you are not reading the book online, you will need to install a DjVu player to read the book.

Suitable DjVu players for:
iPhone/iPod Touch
PC/Mac

The reason for choosing the DjVu format rather than pdf is that it offers the best balance of image quality vs file size. To give an example, the full set of image files for Book 7 takes up around 11GB. This is compressed to 55MB using DjVu with minimal loss in quality. The equivalent pdf file would be about 700MB. We feel that this significantly reduced file size is sufficient justification for using a relatively uncommon format. DjVu is an open standard and will, we hope, stand the test of time. We plan to maintain copies of the minute books in other file formats (including pdf) just in case, but because of bandwidth constraints, may not make them available on the web.

Inebriated Scotland - listen to the lecture

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:56:18 PST

Why has Scotland experienced such a profound growth in alcohol-related harm since 1991? The trend line is extraordinary and, Prof. Hanlon argues, must reflect broader societal issues.

This lecture was given to the Glasgow Southern Medical Society on Thursday 10th February 2011 at the Ebenezer Duncan Centre, Glasgow.

Flying the flag for Scotland - General Practitioners at the Deep End - listen again

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:57:08 PST

Listen to the lecture given by Professor Graham Watt to the Glasgow Southern Medical Society at the Ebenezer Duncan Centre, Glasgow on Thursday 13th January 2011. Prof Watt discusses the work of Dr Julian Tudor Hart, and the importance of continuity of care and longterm relationships in primary care. The Deep End project involved the 100 most deprived practices in Scotland. Prof Graham Watt is Professor of General Practice at the University of Glasgow.

Presidential address flyer

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:46:10 PDT

Lecture syllabus: 2010-11

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:31:44 PDT

Click on the link below to view the syllabus:

Glasgow Southern Medical Society

Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow

Notice of meeting: Presidential Address

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:53:18 PDT

‘BOMAD’

Speaker
Dr Gordon Weetch
Consultant Anaesthetist, Hairmyres Hospital

Date and time
Thursday October 7th 2010, 7pm
Buffet meal available from 6.15

Venue
The Ebenezer Duncan Centre, Victoria Infirmary,
Langside, Glasgow

Future meeting
Thursday, 11th November 2010: Prof Miles Fisher - Diabetes in Scotland 2010 - new
SIGN guideline and new Action Plan

Listen to the lecture: Malaria - is eradication a realistic aim?

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:50:24 PST

A thin-film Giemsa stained micrograph of ring-forms, and gametocytes of Plasmodium falciparum
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plasmodium.jpg

Dr Heather Ferguson is one of the team at the University of Glasgow parasitology department. Her work both in Glasgow and Tanzania involves laboratory, field and theoretical investigation of malaria and the plasmodium life cycle.

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Notice of meeting: Malaria - is eradication a realistic aim?

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:29:02 PST

Malaria - is eradication a realistic aim?
Dr Heather Ferguson

Image source under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 licence: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/browseIssue.action?issue=info:doi/10.1371/issue.pbio.v03.i06

Dr Ferguson is one of the team at Glasgow University's parasitology department. Her work in both Glasgow and Tanzania involves laboratory, field and theoretical investigation of the plasmodium life cycle. She is ideally placed to update us on current management of malaria and to consider what the future might hold.

Thursday 11th February at 7pm
Ebenezer Duncan Centre, Victoria Infirmary
A buffet supper is available from 6.15pm

Guests are welcome to attend our meetings.

Notes from Dr MacIntyre on the meeting held on 26th November 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:19:15 PST

The 2nd Ordinary Meeting of the session was held in the Walton Suite at the Southern General Hospital. Perhaps partly for this reason and because of inclement weather, the attendance was very poor – only 10 members. The catering was not of the standard generally provided by the Catering Department at the Victoria. Despite this, those present enjoyed an informative evening with much discussion.

The President introduced three speakers contributing to a seminar on “Understanding Children’s Well-being”. Professor Charlotte Wright based at Yorkhill has been Project Lead in the UK for introduction of new WHO growth charts for children up to the age of four. These are to be introduced in January. They are based on growth patterns of healthy breast-fed children in non-smoking and non-deprived backgrounds in six different venues covering North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Intriguingly the range of birth weights and the growth patterns of these children are identical in terms of height, though in the UK babies show a tendency to weight gain so that 6% are above the 98th centile at the end of the first year. Introduction of the charts includes detail for pre term infants and associated gestational adjustment, charts for parents allowing estimation of eventual height, and detail on measurement and use of the charts for health professionals.

Dr Helen Minnis is also based in Child Psychiatry at Yorkhill. The underlying theme of the whole evening was the importance of the first year of life and Dr Minnis started by pointing out the extent to which brain development takes place during that year and can therefore be susceptible to damage. Three identified mechanisms of this are simple delay in normal development, change in susceptibility to stress (particularly gluco-corticoid receptors), and influences on new neuronal development. This can affect different parts of the brain – thus for example the corpus callosum which probably has a role in integrating logical activity in the left hemisphere with perception and intuition on the right. Measurements of cortisol levels can be used as a marker of HPA axis activity. Studies have shown that the normal diurnal variation was lost in Romanian orphanage children and in maltreated children – with cortisol levels particularly suppressed in the latter. Intervention with improved individual child care during the first year reversed this biochemical pattern. It is thought that care and support which eases times of distress is particularly important. The term “reactive attachment disorder” was coined to describe characteristics of the children who have suffered this pattern of neglect. Some of these children are inhibited in all relationships. Others showed disinhibition in reaction to strangers, becoming over-friendly. Work currently underway in Glasgow is aimed at identifying at an early stage children at risk of this type of neglect and attempting close intervention through the usual agencies such as health visiting.

Dr Kerry Milligan’s background is in General Practice but particularly working with homeless and at risk families and in the area of child protection. Recent publicity over cases such as Victoria Climbie and Baby P have made this a difficult area of work with heavy workloads for staff, exacerbated by recruitment problems. Inevitably most of the attention in child protection work is directed at these high profile or crisis situations. Reporting on child protection is dominated by disasters or examples of bad practice. There has been a gradual increase in child protection registrations, particularly in relation to emotional abuse and physical neglect. Against this background there is a need for much more attention to the more general area of child protection. Risk factors can be identified – families where there is substance abuse, homelessness or poverty, young carers, asylum seekers. Early signs of behavioural disturbance are often present, both before and at school age. These can be picked up particularly if there is regular contact with families. Dr Milligan quoted an individual case report from 1945 which illustrated how little change there may have been in the problems and issues of child protection. However the opportunity is there through early identification and intervention with at risk families to improve outcomes.

Following a period of discussion Dr Kennedy Roberts thanked the speakers for their contributions to a small but clearly interested audience.

Programme 2009-10, Session 165

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:13:12 PDT

Friday September 4th from 1.45pm
Golf outing - Whitecraigs Golf Club.

Thursday October 8th
Presidential address - Dr Saket Priyadarshi
'From malaria to methadone. Treatment works!'

Thursday October 29th
Annual dinner. Roma Mia restaurant, Pollokshields.

Thursday November 5th
Joint meeting with Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow.
'Preparing tomorrow's doctors for practice' Prof Jill Morrison.
7 for 7.30pm RCPSG 242 St Vincent St.

Thursday November 26th (date and venue to be confirmed)
Symposium – 'Health, happiness and protection - understanding childrens' well-being' Prof Charlotte Wright, Dr Kerry Milligan, Dr Helen Minnis.

Thursday January 14th
'Just a little prick with a needle - treating macular degeneration' Dr William Wykes.

Thursday February 11th
'Malaria - is eradication a realistic aim?' Dr Heather Ferguson.

Thursday March (date to be confirmed)
Honorary Presidential address - Dr Kennedy Roberts OBE
'Prisoners, drug users, homeless people and medicine'

Thursday April 22nd, 7pm
Annual General Meeting - Conference room, Floor E, Victoria Infirmary

GSMS Office bearers 2009/10
Honorary President - Dr Kennedy Roberts OBE
President - Dr Saket Priyadarshi
Past President - Dr Douglas McLellan
Vice President - Dr Gordon Weech
Honorary Treasurer - Dr Liam McKean
Secretary - Dr Duncan MacIntyre
Duncan.MacIntyre@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Victoria Infirmary

Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow
Members are welcome to attend meetings of our sister society held at 7 for 7.30pm in the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons.
View the syllabus of the 196th session here.

Listen to the Lecture: Honorary Presidential Address - Joseph Lister

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:51:19 PDT

Photo: wikimedia.org

Honorary President of the Glasgow Southern Medical Society and speaker for the evening, Professor Sir Roddy MacSween, relates the life and work of Joseph Lister.

Download the lecture to your mp3 player or listen online:

Librivox recording of On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery by Joseph Lister.
Read by Martin Clifton

Books:
Lord Lister - Rickman John Godlee
Lord Lister, his life and work (1913) - Guy Theodore Wrench
The collected papers of Joseph baron Lister (1909) Vol 1
The collected papers of Joseph baron Lister (1909) Vol 2
The Edinburgh School of Surgery before Lister (1918) - Alexander Miles
The autobiography of Joseph Lister of Bradford in Yorkshire, to which is added a contemporary account of the defence of the Defence of Bradford and the Capture of Leeds by the Parliamentarians in 1642 - Thomas Wright

From the minutes: Dr MacIntyre's report on our March 2009 meeting

noreply@blogger.com (Glasgow Southern Medical Society) — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:37:22 PDT

HONORARY PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

THURSDAY, 26TH MARCH 2009

Our Honorary President and Speaker for the evening, Professor Sir Roddy MacSween, was introduced by the President. Professor MacSween has been President of the Royal College of Pathologists and Chairman of the Joint Academy and is responsible for the standard textbook “MacSween’s Pathology of the Liver” – a distinguished career in both pathology and post-graduate training.

His interest in Lister as pathologist as well as surgeon was stimulated by the finding of a microscope with some pathological slides amongst Lister memorabilia dating from Lister’s Edinburgh period from 1853 to 1860. In fact review of the history of microscope and staining technique developments indicated that these could not have been the surgeons own work. Lister’s contact with the development of pathology went back to his father who had been responsible for developing achromatic lenses for microscopy in the 1820’s. As a student Lister had made microscopic examination of specimens. He continued this work in his early years in the College of Surgeons. However staining techniques and then paraffin embedding only developed respectively in the 1860’s and 1890’s.

Lister belonged to a Yorkshire Quaker family who moved to Essex where he had his upbringing. He trained in London at University College and the College of Surgeons before a move to Edinburgh initially for a brief clinical attachment which however led to a permanent post and marriage to the daughter of the then Professor of Surgery, Professor Syme. His work on antisepsis developed during Professorships in Glasgow during the 1860’s and Edinburgh the following decade. He then returned to London as Professor at King’s leading to Presidency of the British Association of Science and the Royal Society, knighthood and peerage. London surgeons were initially sceptical of his views sepsis prevention. It took a few years for him to be fully accepted.

Throughout his career he maintained an interest in pathology which was illustrated by remarkable detail in both drawing and clinical and pathological description of specimens – the latter neatly handwritten on foolscap sheets. Professor MacSween showed a number of examples of Lister’s drawings. These were largely done with aid of the camera lucida, a technique allowing superimposition of the image onto a drawing block to allow copying. Inevitably a lot of the early work prior to the advent of anaesthesia was of skin lesions – psoriasis, icthiosis, scurvy and melanoma. The illustrations covered both macroscopic appearance and cellular microscopy. With the development of anaesthesia more substantial specimens became available – examples included sarcoma and more uncertain cystic bone tumour. Most of these drawings and associated descriptions are housed in the Royal College of Surgeons. The overall impression was of the immense amount of work covered by Lord Lister and the remarkable detail of observation which characterised his approach – an impressive insight into an impressive figure.

Dr Philip Wilson, in proposing a vote of thanks, said he had struggled initially to find common points of interest with Lister but related readily to his non-conformist background and approach to work and teaching, and the remarkable detail of his observations. The President closed the evening by echoing our thanks to Professor MacSween and announcing the date of the Society’s Annual General Meeting – 23rd April.