SIETHOSCOPE-DR. GREGORY-CLINICAL WARDS, EDINBURGH, &c.

Dr W G Grace, LRCP Edinburgh, MRCS England, 1879.

to obtain the LRCP diploma which, when added to his MRCS (Eng), enabled him to qualify as a doctor. So much is known and so much has been written about this man's extraordinary achievements on the cricket field that it is not surprising that relatively little is known of his medical career, which provided a stability to his family life in Gloucestershire from 1879 until the end of the century. ...

Dr James Barry (1789-1865): the Edinburgh years.

Dr James Barry, a surgeon in the British Army from 1813 until his retirement in 1859, became famous after his death following the revelation that he was in fact a woman who had masqueraded as a man for no less than 56 years. This paper reviews Margaret Bulkley's student years at the University of Edinburgh from the time of her adoption of the identity of the youth calling himself James Barry. T...

Dr. C. J. C. Earl

Nursing dependency in registered nursing homes and long term care geriatric wards in Edinburgh.

There has been growing interest and public investment in registered nursing homes, apparently based on the assumption that these homes are the private equivalent of hospital long term care. We have tested this hypothesis in a survey comparing 400 patients in 18 registered nursing homes with 217 patients in 11 geriatric long term care wards in Edinburgh. The nursing home patients formed a distin...

17 - IJBMRF20152024 Dr. Manju C

Tobacco use is the single most important preventable risk to human health in developed countries and an important cause of premature death worldwide. Cigarette smoking is probably one of the most addictive and dependence-producing self gratifications known to man. Smoking has an extensive effect on respiratory function and has been clearly implicated in the etiology of chronic respiratory disea...