From the archive: Minute Book 4 1890 - 1895

Book 4 covering the years 1890 to 1895 of the Society's Minutes is now available:

Minute Book 4

This is part of the scanning project to digitise the entire collection of Minute Books of the Society.

Scanned by Dr John Glen, processed and uploaded to the Internet Archive by Dr Jonathan Oates.

From the archive: Minute Book 1

A typewritten transcript of the first minutes of the Society covering the foundation and years 1844-1845 is now available:

Minute Book 1

This is part of the scanning project to digitise the entire collection of Minute Books of the Society.

Scanned by Dr John Glen, processed and uploaded to the Internet Archive by Dr Jonathan Oates.

From the archives: Minute Book 1 1844 - 1845

We are delighted to announce that Minute Book 1 in the form of a typewritten transcript has been digitised and is now available on the Internet Archive:

Minute Book 1

The book was scanned by Dr John Glen, and processed and uploaded by Dr Jonathan Oates. This forms part of our major project to scan and digitise the complete minute book archive of the Society.

We hope these will be of interest to members of the Society and to others with a penchant for medical history.

High resolution images are available to bona fide medical historians on application to the Secretary.

The Minute Book scanning project

Members who regularly attend our meetings will know that we have embarked on a project to digitise the Society's minute books. The paper volumes are currently archived at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and are only available for reading by special request. The scanning project will make our minute books available for anyone to read online or by download to a PC or mobile device.

In a future post, we will outline the technical details of the project. For now, however, we are pleased to release the first volume to be scanned.

Minute Book Volume 7 (1910-1923) - view online

or download a copy for viewing on your computer or mobile device. If you are not reading the book online, you will need to install a DjVu player to read the book.

Suitable DjVu players for:
iPhone/iPod Touch
PC/Mac

The reason for choosing the DjVu format rather than pdf is that it offers the best balance of image quality vs file size. To give an example, the full set of image files for Book 7 takes up around 11GB. This is compressed to 55MB using DjVu with minimal loss in quality. The equivalent pdf file would be about 700MB. We feel that this significantly reduced file size is sufficient justification for using a relatively uncommon format. DjVu is an open standard and will, we hope, stand the test of time. We plan to maintain copies of the minute books in other file formats (including pdf) just in case, but because of bandwidth constraints, may not make them available on the web.

Inebriated Scotland - listen to the lecture

Why has Scotland experienced such a profound growth in alcohol-related harm since 1991? The trend line is extraordinary and, Prof. Hanlon argues, must reflect broader societal issues.

This lecture was given to the Glasgow Southern Medical Society on Thursday 10th February 2011 at the Ebenezer Duncan Centre, Glasgow.

Flying the flag for Scotland - General Practitioners at the Deep End - listen again

Listen to the lecture given by Professor Graham Watt to the Glasgow Southern Medical Society at the Ebenezer Duncan Centre, Glasgow on Thursday 13th January 2011. Prof Watt discusses the work of Dr Julian Tudor Hart, and the importance of continuity of care and longterm relationships in primary care. The Deep End project involved the 100 most deprived practices in Scotland. Prof Graham Watt is Professor of General Practice at the University of Glasgow.

Presidential address flyer

Lecture syllabus: 2010-11

Click on the link below to view the syllabus:

Glasgow Southern Medical Society

Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow

Notice of meeting: Presidential Address

‘BOMAD’

Speaker
Dr Gordon Weetch
Consultant Anaesthetist, Hairmyres Hospital

Date and time
Thursday October 7th 2010, 7pm
Buffet meal available from 6.15

Venue
The Ebenezer Duncan Centre, Victoria Infirmary,
Langside, Glasgow

Future meeting
Thursday, 11th November 2010: Prof Miles Fisher - Diabetes in Scotland 2010 - new
SIGN guideline and new Action Plan

Listen to the lecture: Malaria - is eradication a realistic aim?

A thin-film Giemsa stained micrograph of ring-forms, and gametocytes of Plasmodium falciparum
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plasmodium.jpg


Dr Heather Ferguson is one of the team at the University of Glasgow parasitology department. Her work both in Glasgow and Tanzania involves laboratory, field and theoretical investigation of malaria and the plasmodium life cycle.

Download the lecture to your mp3 player or listen online: