the modern infirmary is the evolutional product of the dialectic interface between medical theories at each time and the outcome of their application in clinical practice. the infirmary as we know it today did not exist during antiquity, but the different precursors of the modern hospital emerged as a result of the interaction between medical theory and practice. during antiquity the hippocrati...

ON 20 May I 767, a meeting was held at the New Inn at Leeds to 'consider of the Expediency of an Infirmary'. It was unanimously agreed 'That a Parochial Infirmary in this Place will be of great Utility'. At a meeting in June it was further agreed that the proposed infirmary should serve not only the parish of Leeds but 'that the Infirmary intended to be erected be declared a General One' and it...

'Cancer Research Campaign Department of Medical Oncology, Beatson Oncology Centre, Western Infirmary, Glasgow GIl 6NT; 2Department of Oncology, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast BT9 7AB; 3Department of Gynaecology, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G4 OSF; 4Department of Gynaecology, Western Infirmary, Glasgow GIl 6NT; 'Department of Gynaecology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen AB9 2ZB; 6Departm...