GLASGOW WESTERN INFIRMARY.

The Lister Ward at Glasgow Royal Infirmary

The Royal Infirmary and Old Glasgow.

The Thirty-First Annual General Meeting was held in the Department of Pathology of the Royal Infirmary of Glasgow on 17 November 1979. The Ninety-Fourth Ordinary Meeting, which immediately followed, centred on an exhibition of Listeriana established in the Department in 1923. Professor Donald Campbell of the Chair of Anaesthesia set the scene by describing some aspects of the Royal Infirmary an...

Experience of reversal of sterilisation at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

OBJECTIVE To review experience at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary with regard to women who underwent reversal of sterilisation, to obtain a profile of these women and to evaluate the procedure itself in terms of safety and restoration of fertility. DESIGN A retrospective study based on case records from the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and from the Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital, both of which share...

Royal Infirmary Glasgow WHOLE BOWEL IRRIGATION IN ACUTE POISONING

Sir,—I agree entirely with this view that paravertebral block would provide reduction in requirement for morphine, greater than that achieved with the intercostal block used in our technique. Several of the chest radiographs, including the one in the article, demonstrated contrast medium in the paravertebral space. The statement "it should not be assumed that an intercostal injection of contras...

Self poisoning. A review of patients seen in the Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow.

Seventy-three patients who had taken a deliberate overdose were seen over a six-week period. Self poisoning was found to be most common in females aged 20 to 29 years and in the unemployed (60%). Most patients had also taken alcohol (63%). The benzodiazepines were the most common drug taken (56%) and most drugs taken were prescribed by the patient's General Practitioner (G.P.) (81%). One-third ...