Programme 2009-10, Session 165

Friday September 4th from 1.45pm
Golf outing - Whitecraigs Golf Club.

Thursday October 8th
Presidential address - Dr Saket Priyadarshi
'From malaria to methadone. Treatment works!'

Thursday October 29th
Annual dinner. Roma Mia restaurant, Pollokshields.

Thursday November 5th
Joint meeting with Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow.
'Preparing tomorrow's doctors for practice' Prof Jill Morrison.
7 for 7.30pm RCPSG 242 St Vincent St.

Thursday November 26th (date and venue to be confirmed)
Symposium – 'Health, happiness and protection - understanding childrens' well-being' Prof Charlotte Wright, Dr Kerry Milligan, Dr Helen Minnis.

Thursday January 14th
'Just a little prick with a needle - treating macular degeneration' Dr William Wykes.

Thursday February 11th
'Malaria - is eradication a realistic aim?' Dr Heather Ferguson.

Thursday March (date to be confirmed)
Honorary Presidential address - Dr Kennedy Roberts OBE
'Prisoners, drug users, homeless people and medicine'

Thursday April 22nd, 7pm
Annual General Meeting - Conference room, Floor E, Victoria Infirmary


GSMS Office bearers 2009/10
Honorary President - Dr Kennedy Roberts OBE
President - Dr Saket Priyadarshi
Past President - Dr Douglas McLellan
Vice President - Dr Gordon Weech
Honorary Treasurer - Dr Liam McKean
Secretary - Dr Duncan MacIntyre
Duncan.MacIntyre@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Victoria Infirmary

Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow
Members are welcome to attend meetings of our sister society held at 7 for 7.30pm in the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons.
View the syllabus of the 196th session here.

Listen to the Lecture: Honorary Presidential Address - Joseph Lister

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Honorary President of the Glasgow Southern Medical Society and speaker for the evening, Professor Sir Roddy MacSween, relates the life and work of Joseph Lister.

Download the lecture to your mp3 player or listen online:




Librivox recording of On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery by Joseph Lister.
Read by Martin Clifton



Books:
Lord Lister - Rickman John Godlee
Lord Lister, his life and work (1913) - Guy Theodore Wrench
The collected papers of Joseph baron Lister (1909) Vol 1
The collected papers of Joseph baron Lister (1909) Vol 2
The Edinburgh School of Surgery before Lister (1918) - Alexander Miles
The autobiography of Joseph Lister of Bradford in Yorkshire, to which is added a contemporary account of the defence of the Defence of Bradford and the Capture of Leeds by the Parliamentarians in 1642 - Thomas Wright