West Country Physicians Club

West Country Physicians Club, Spring Meeting 1982

Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland

On 26 October 1900, the Club is reported to have held its 100th meeting, which was followed by a dinner in what was then called the New Library of the Royal College of Physicians. Thirty-three members were present, and Sir John Batty Tuke presided. The 500th meeting was celebrated on 8 December 1954 by a dinner in the Royal College of Surgeons, with an attendance of 92, although it was a very s...

West Country Physicians Club

The age structure of the population has changed recently, for example in 1966 46% were less than 15 and 8% over 64 whereas in 1984 the figures were 35% and 11%. Birth and death registers are complete from 1883 and I have analysed them by quinquennia. The infant mortality rate has fallen from 114 in 1945, at about which time the first community nurse was employed, to 32 in the last 5 years. Deat...

Recent Work on the Demyelinating Diseases *Based on a communication to the West Country Physicians' Club, April 1958.

this review covers some of the developments during this period. Just over twenty years ago J. R. M. Innes came to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases and showed us some intriguing pictures of lambs with sway-back and suggested that here was a demyelinating disease which could be prevented by giving the ewes copper. Then, during the war, four workers studying sway-back developed themselve...

South West Surgeons Club

South West Surgical Club were the guests of Professor Michael Brady and the Department of Surgery at Cork Regional Hospital, Wilton, Cork on 1st-2nd May 1981. The following are abstracts of papers read to the meeting. THE FROME EXPERIMENT VALUE OF SCREENING FOR COLORECTAL CANCER