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Get PDFMEMBERS OF COUNCIL FOR THE 245th SESSION 1981/82The following members of Council were elected at the AEGM held on Wednesday, 20th May, 1981Senior President: Brian Montgomery1st Junior President: Alastair McKinlay 2nd Junior President:Hamish McRitchie3rd Junior President: John FraterSenior Secretary: Shona RossJunior Secretary: Aileen Van der LeeConvenor of the Business Committee: Christopher IngamellsConvenor of the Publicity Committee: Andrew HoyleConvenor of the House Committee: Roderick ElliottConvenor of the Library Committee: Elizabeth BoyterConvenor of the Museum Committee: Sandra BrownConvenor of the Entertainments Committee: Dr Richard ElliottNON -COUNCIL POSTSEditor of Res Medica: John FraterConvenor of the Annual Dinner Committee: Lyn McLartyChairman of the Medical Faculty Ball Committee: Shona Ros
To be or not to be – a doctor
Get PDFThe publication of the first number of Res Medica, the Journal of the Royal Medical Society, is a matter of great interest not only to past, present and future members of the Society, but to all teachers and students in the famous Medical School of Edinburgh. Accordingly, it was both an honour and a privilege to be asked by the Editor to contribute an article which contains a personal message to students and prospective students who may have doubts about the future of the medical profession. It also gives me the opportunity of expressing my best wishes for the success of this journalistic venture
Portal Hypertension
Get PDFDefinitionPortal hypertension is a condition of chronically raised pressure in the portal venous system, giving rise to splenomegaly and the development of enlarged collateral venous channels connecting the portal and systemic circulatory systems.AnatomyFigure I illustrates the disposition of the main veins of the portal system and indicates the chief sites at which this system communicates with the systemic veins. The presence of a Caput Medusae in cases of intrahepatic obstruction, and its absence in extrahepatic obstruction. is evident from the drawing. Not all of these sites are important clinically or diagnostically, but their total capacity causes a very considerable volume of blood to bypass the liver and be released into the general circulation when the communications are enlarged
Sir James Mackenzie
Get PDFBased on a Dissertation read before the Royal Medical Society on Friday, 21st October 1960Picture, if you can, a dark grim valley of smoke and chimneys, outlined by a ring of light appearing over the hills. In the streets a clatter of horses\u27 hooves and wooden clogs. In a dingy room the oft repeated scene of a girl in labour surrounded by old women in shawls. The ubiquitous, anxious husband is being solemnly reassured by the confident young doctor newly fledged from Edinburgh University. Her grip tightens on his hand as another instalment of pain is to be paid. Suddenly it is limp and tranquillity passes over her sweating brow. Sudden cardiac failure-the year 1880-and the realisation by that doctor in Burnley, James Mackenzie, that nothing was known about cardiac disease which might have warned him of such an outcome
Res Medica, May 1961, Volume II, Number 4
Get PDFTABLE OF CONTENTSDEBILITY AND / OR LOSS OF WEIGHT Charles W. Seward, M.D., F.R.C.P.E.LEUKAEMIA James A. Barrowman, B.Sc.POISONING BY BRITISH PLANTS R. W. Corner, Esq.RES MEDICAAUSCULTATION OF THE HEART: Ill R. W. D. Turner, O.B.E., M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P.Ed., F.R.C.P.Lond. PARRY AND PARRY\u27S DISEASE R. I. Legge NUTRITIONAL BLINDNESS D. S. McLaren, M.D., Ph.D., D.T.M. & H.ACCIDENTAL HAEMORRHAGE James MowatEYE CHANGES IN DISSEMINATED SCLEROSIS A. D. ChalmersBOOK REVIEWSREFLECTIONS
The Unborn Child
Get PDFBased on an Address delivered to the Royal Medical Society, on Friday, 13th January. 1961.Just as the clinical picture of any pregnancy changes from week to week so the picture of obstetric practice as a whole is changing. As childbearing and childbirth have become safer for the mother more and more attention has been directed to her unborn child. The foetus and its placenta, however are remote when compared with the mother and therefore can often only be studied indirectly
Abdominal Crises III
Get PDFThe last of three articles written for Res Medica.Acute Inflammatory ConditionsWith the exception of the pancreas it is the hollow viscera which are involved in acute inflammatory disease. Always beginning as a localized process in the wall of the viscus the rapidity with which the inflammation spreads to the peritoneal space to produce peritonitis depends largely on the time taken for necrosis and perforation of the inflamed area to occur. It the reaction is slow, the inflamed area has often become adherent to adjacent structures or wrapped in omentum before perforation occurs so that even after this disaster the peritonitis remains localized for a further period and an abscess forms
Res Medica
Get PDFThe business of the Society has once again been successfully completed. Our thanks are due to the outside speakers who so readily agreed to give addresses and talks, particularly to those who travelled considerable distances to do so. Members themselves, however, continued to contribute most of the Society’s public and private business. The dissertations maintained their usual high standard, three of them are published in this issue of Res Medica. A full programme of outside visits and social functions has been held, the Guest of Honour at the annual dinner being Professor Emeritus Norman M. Dott. The agenda for next session is currently in preparation, and already includes the names of several prominent outside speakers. With Mr Robin Ewart as Senior President, the session promises to be a most successful one
Res Medica, Autumn 1964, Volume IV, Number 3
Get PDF[NB Issue published incorrectly as Autumn 1964, Vol. 5, No. 1]TABLE OF CONTENTSASPECT OF OBESITY: J.A. Strong AETIOLOGICAL FACTORS IN CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES: A.M. DavidsonRES MEDICASOME ASPECTS OF ABDOMINAL PAIN: T.J. McNairLOCALISATION OF RENAL FUNCTION: D.I. NewbleOBSERVATIONS ON LIPID METABOLISM: R.B.L. Ewart
“Observations on Lipid Metabolism”
Get PDFBased on a Dissertation presented to the Society on 25th October, 1963.Prior to 1936, it was the custom to regard adipose tissue of an accumulation of inert lipid material, possessing little or no metabolic activity, but, in that year, this viewpoint was challenged by the work of Schoenheimer and Rittenberg. On the basis of measurements of the rate of disappearance of labelled fatty acids from the body of the mouse, these workers concluded that the half-life of the total fatty acids in this animal, under the conditions of the experiment, was of the order of three days. Since the depots constitute by far the greatest part of the body fats, it was assumed that the turnover rate observed was that characteristic of the depot fat. The acceptance of these results necessitated the immediate rejection of the long cherished idea that adipose tissue represents an inert lipid store, capable of change only during periods of fasting or of excess ingestion of food