[No title] - Results of Thyroid Feeding in Insanity. By Robert Cross, M.B., C.M., Assistant Medical Officer, Midlothian and Peebles Asylum. (Reprinted from the Edinburgh Medical Journal, Nov., 1897.)

1898 ◽  
Vol 44 (184) ◽  
pp. 158-159
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
Medical Officer ◽  
Edinburgh Medical

John Davies Thomas: Chloroformist in London and pioneer South Australian doctor

2021 ◽  
pp. 0310057X2110315
Author(s):  
Rajesh P Haridas
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
North America ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Medical Officer ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Adelaide Hospital ◽  
Medical Society ◽  
College Hospital ◽  
South Wales

John Davies Thomas (1844–1893) described a two-ounce drop-bottle for chloroform in 1872 while he was a resident medical officer at University College Hospital, London. After working as a ship’s surgeon, he settled in Australia. In May 1875, Thomas presented a paper on the mortality from ether and chloroform at a meeting of the Medical Society of Victoria in Melbourne, Victoria. Surveys conducted in Europe and North America had established that the mortality from chloroform was eight to ten times higher than that from ether. At that time, chloroform was the most widely administered anaesthetic in Australia. Thomas’ paper was published in The Australian Medical Journal and reprinted by the Medical Society of Victoria for distribution to hospitals in the Colony of Victoria. Later that year, Thomas moved to Adelaide, South Australia, where he may have been influential at the Adelaide Hospital in ensuring that ether was administered more often than chloroform. It does not appear that Thomas’ papers on anaesthesia had a significant effect on the conduct of anaesthesia in Victoria or New South Wales.

scholarly journals La Revista Colombiana de Obstetricia y Ginecología como valor para la Federación Colombiana de Obstetricia y Ginecología, FECOLSOG

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Hernando Gaitán-Duarte ◽  
Jorge Andrés Rubio-Romero ◽  
Carlos Fernando Grillo-Ardila
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
British Medical Journal ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
De Medicina ◽  
Edinburgh Medical ◽  
Royal Society Of London

Las sociedades científicas tienen como uno de sus más nobles objetivos la promoción de la ciencia en los diferentes campos del conocimiento. La primera sociedad científica fue la Royal Society of London, fundada en 1660 en el Reino Unido, también conocida como la Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. La sociedad fue creada como “un colegio para la promoción del aprendizaje físico-matemático experimental” que publicó, en el año de 1666, la primera revista científica, Philosophycal Transactions (1, 2) y fue la publicación científica más importante hasta el siglo XIX, cuando aparecieron las revistas científicas especializadas. En Philosophycal Transactions se publicaron inicialmente noticias, cartas y descripciones de informes experimentales sin un formato o estilo estandarizado (3). La primera entidad en publicar una revista médica fue el Edinburgh Medical School, que divulgó el Medical Essays and Observations en 1731, que se transformó dos años más tarde en el Edinburgh Medical Journal y contó con revisión por pares desde el año de 1733 (4). La primera revista médica en Estados Unidos fue la Medical Repository, que apareció en 1797 (5). En el Reino Unido aparecen The Lancet en 1823, para publicar el trabajo desarrollado en las escuelas médicas de Londres y el reporte de casos, y el British Medical Journal en 1853, como resultado de la creación de la British Medical Association (4). En el año 1887, Philosophycal Transactions se dividió en dos nuevas revistas: una dedicada a la publicación de temas de matemáticas y física, y la segunda a temas de biología. A partir de 1989 realizó una importante innovación: la revisión anónima de los contenidos por pares. Los hechos enunciados recuerdan que las revistas científicas médicas se han originado en las sociedades científicas y en las escuelas de medicina con el objetivo de presentar tanto la metodología como los resultados de las investigaciones realizadas, con la característica desde sus inicios de realizar un proceso anónimo y riguroso de revisión por pares.

2. English Retrospect

1874 ◽  
Vol 20 (90) ◽  
pp. 307-315
Author(s):  
James Maclaren
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
Edinburgh Medical

The following are extracts from Dr. Laycock's paper “On certain organic disorders and defects of memory,” published in the “Edinburgh Medical Journal,” for April, 1874:—

Short-term Psychiatric Sequelae to Therapeutic Termination of Pregnancy

1975 ◽  
Vol 126 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan D. Lask
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
British Medical Journal ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
Prospective Studies ◽  
Medical Officer ◽  
Termination Of Pregnancy ◽  
Chief Medical Officer ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Psychiatric Sequelae

During 1973 there were 169,362 abortions notified to the Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health. In a leading article the British Medical Journal (1973) acknowledged that ‘bald statistics cannot help to answer the important question of the nature of the physical and emotional sequelae of termination of pregnancy’. The article called for careful prospective studies to assess such sequelae. This paper is a report of a short-term prospective study of the psychiatric sequelae.

scholarly journals Rubella in Europe

1991 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Galazka
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Medical Journal ◽  
Scarlet Fever ◽  
English Language ◽  
Old French ◽  
Minor Importance ◽  
The Common ◽  
Edinburgh Medical

Postnatal rubella is a mild illness, a disease which was considered to be of only minor importance for many years. The first authors to write about the disease as distinct from other exanthemata were German physicians; they differentiated rubella from measles and scarlet fever in the latter part of the eighteenth century and called the disease Rotheln. Hence the common English language eponym is ‘German measles’. Some consider that the term ‘German’ in German measles is probably of literary rather than of geographical significance and that it came from the old French ‘germain’ (derived from the Latin ‘germanus‘), meaning ‘closely akin to’ measles [1]. That it is not generally called by its German name, Rotheln, is due to Veale, a Scottish physician who in 1866 described 30 cases of rubella in the Edinburgh Medical Journal, and proposed ‘rubella’ as a short and euphonius name that could be easily pronounced [2].

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