The First Eastern General Hospital (1914–1919) of the Royal Army Medical Corps at Cambridge

2021 ◽  
pp. 096777202198969
Author(s):  
Andreas K Demetriades
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Venereal Disease ◽  
Hospital Data ◽  
Military Hospitals ◽  
King's College ◽  
College Now ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University

The First Eastern General Hospital (1914–1919) from its inception at the Leys School, its growth and establishment at Trinity College Cambridge and then its further move to the cricket grounds of King’s College and Clare College (now the site of the University Library), exemplifies the determination and desire of Cambridge University to contribute to the humanitarian effort during World War I. It is also a prime example of the sheer sacrifice and altruism of the medical profession across its ranks to offer its services in times of need. From its day of mobilisation on 5 August and its first patient admission on 16 August 1914 through 30 June 1918, the last month for which hospital data exist, the First Eastern General Hospital admitted 62,664 patients from Home, Expeditionary, Belgian and Mediterranean Forces. In the last month alone, it admitted more than 2000 personnel. By its closure, there were only 437 deaths, a mortality rate of 0.69 per cent. It paved the way for Auxiliary Hospitals to which 2500 of its patients were transferred. Both Barnwell and Cherry Hinton Military Hospitals, set up to care for venereal disease patients, sprang from the First Eastern General and followed its organisation and staff arrangements after the parent closed.

scholarly journals Robin Ralph Jamison, 12 July 1912 - 18 March 1991

1994 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 171-194
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
World War I ◽  
South African ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Uk ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University

Robin Ralph Jamison (RRJ) was born in Horsham, Sussex, on 12 July 1912. He was the third of four brothers born to Reginald Jamison and Eanswythe Elstreth Heyworth. Two large family portraits of RRJ’s maternal grandparents have always adorned the hall of RRJ’s residence in Bristol, and two senior test pilots from the same Heyworth family served Rolls- Royce at Hucknall for many years. Both RRJ’s father and his grandfather were medical practitioners and, at one time, it was thought that RRJ too would follow them into the profession. During World War I RRJ’s father, Reginald, served in White Russia, where he developed asthma from which he subsequently suffered badly. In consequence, on his return to the UK he was advised to move to a warmer, drier climate. Thus in 1921 the whole Jamison family moved to South Africa, where Reginald set up practice in Cape Town. For the most part the family took to their new life happily enough, although RRJ’s mother found herself homesick for the country of her birth. This manifested itself in a desire to see all her boys educated in the UK. In the event, the two elder brothers, Peter and Antony, went to Dartmouth and subsequently joined the Navy, and the youngest, Ivor, also went to school in Britain. He was later taken prisoner when Tobruk surrendered to Rommel. RRJ turned out to be the only one of the four to be educated entirely in South Africa. This was mostly because, from an early age, he suffered from very poor eyesight. From the Diocesan College, Rondebosch, Cape, he moved to the South African College in Cape Town and, finally, to the University of Cape Town in 1929. He was a bright child academically and was only 16 when he was accepted for university.

An experiment in biophysics

1951 ◽  
Vol 208 (1092) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
King's College ◽  
Generous Support ◽  
Set Up ◽  
New Research ◽  
The University

I am indebted to the Council of the Royal Society for this opportunity of describing the early biophysics developments at King’s College, for the inception and encouragement of which the Society has itself been so much responsible. At the end of the last war the Society was extremely active in supporting new research schemes in Universities for which the financial procedures normal to such institutions might not be appropriate. It had for some years been my intention to engage in biophysical research, and I submitted a scheme of work to the Society early in 1946, receiving much help and encouragement from Professor A. V. Hill and Sir Edward Salisbury. A Committee of the Society was set up under the chairmanship of Sir Edward Salisbury to consider the scheme. General approval was given a little later in the same year, but the biophysical nature of the programme prompted the Treasury to suggest that the Medical Research Council would be the appropriate body to administer the scheme I had in mind; the Medical Research Council gave its approval in March 1947 to the formation of a Biophysics Research Unit with myself as honorary director, and a Biophysics Committee with Sir Edward Salisbury as Chairman was also formed at this time. The former Secretary of the Medical Research Council, Sir Edward Mellanby, and his successor, Dr H. P. Himsworth, together with the headquarters staff, have been most helpful and considerate, and I cannot emphasize too strongly how encouraging this has been to us during the early stages of the Unit’s existence. The generous support of King’s College, of the University of London, and of the Rockefeller Foundation has enabled the work to go forward with greater impetus and on a bigger scale than would otherwise have been possible. The total number of scientists engaged on biophysical research at King’s College is at the present time 26, and the corresponding number of technicians 23.

Meirion Thomas, 28 December 1894 - 5 April 1977

1978 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 547-568
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Research Worker ◽  
Memorial Service ◽  
World War ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
King's College ◽  
Army Service ◽  
The University ◽  
Newcastle Upon Tyne ◽  
Meirion Thomas

Meirion Thomas spent all but a year or two of his professional career at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (formerly Armstrong, later King’s College, University of Durham) following army service in World War I. An account of his arrival there says his advent was quite an occasion because of his Oxbridge accent, his air of culture and sophistication, his beautiful manners and his military bearing. At the memorial service for him it was said: ‘Through all the talks about him there runs a note of admiration for the research worker, the teacher, the quintessential bachelor, the regular worshipper at the Cathedral or the Welsh Chapel, and for the least warlike of men with a good first war record.’ Meirion was a quiet, naturally friendly man with a twinkle in his eye and a fine sense of humour, but a persistent shyness gave him a somewhat aloof manner and he maintained a personal reticence which none of his colleagues fully penetrated. He was extremely thorough in all he did and brought to his work high ideals and a sense of duty acquired in youth. He set the highest of standards and his students regarded him with some degree of awe, but in after years many expressed their respect and affection for him and gratitude for the rigorous training he provided.

Liverpool: the early years of biochemistry

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.A.J. Pitt
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
World War ◽  
Research School ◽  
Active Research ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Private Venture ◽  
The University

The first Chair and department of biochemistry in the U.K. were founded at the University of Liverpool in 1902, thanks to a generous donation by William Johnston, a Liverpool shipowner. The first holder of the Johnston Chair, Benjamin Moore, was a dynamic man, who set up an active research centre. In 1906, he and Edward Whitley founded The Bio-Chemical Journal as a private venture, and in 1912, they sold it to the Biochemical Society. Moore also initiated the first Honours School of Biochemistry in the country before moving to London in 1914 and being succeeded by Walter Ramsden. The development of the department was stopped by World War I, and there was little expansion in the 1920s. After Ramsden's retirement in 1931, the third Johnston Professor, Harold Channon, increased staff numbers, ran a successful research school and re-established the Honours course. World War II brought that to an end, and Channon moved into industry. After the war, biochemistry expanded from a niche subject in a small number of British universities into one that was strongly represented in most universities, but the penetration of biochemistry into wide areas of functional biology has blurred conventional subject boundaries, so in many universities (including the University of Liverpool), departments of biochemistry have been incorporated into large more general schools.

An experiment in biophysics

1951 ◽  
Vol 138 (892) ◽  
pp. 301-324 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
King's College ◽  
Generous Support ◽  
Set Up ◽  
New Research ◽  
The University

I am indebted to the Council of the Royal Society for this opportunity of describing the early biophysics developments at King’s College, for the inception and encouragement of which the Society has itself been so much responsible. At the end of the last war the Society was extremely active in supporting new research schemes in Universities for which the financial procedures normal to such stitutions might not be appropriate. It had for some years been my intention to gage in biophysical research, and I submitted a scheme of work to the Society early in 1946, receiving much help and encouragement from Professor A. V. Hill and Sir Edward Salisbury. A Committee of the Society was set up under the chairlanship of Sir Edward Salisbury to consider the scheme. General approval was given a little later in the same year, but the biophysical nature of the programme rompted the Treasury to suggest that the Medical Research Council would be the propriate body to administer the scheme I had in mind; the Medical Research council gave its approval in March 1947 to the formation of a Biophysics Research nit with myself as honorary director, and a Biophysics Committee with Sir Edward Salisbury as Chairman was also formed at this time. The former Secretary of the Medical Research Council, Sir Edward Mellanby, and his successor, Dr. P. Him sworth, together with the headquarters staff, have been most helpful and considerate, and I cannot emphasize too strongly how encouraging this has been to us during the early stages of the Unit’s existence. The generous support of King’s College, of the University of London, and of the Rockefeller Foundation has enabled the work to go forward with greater impetus and on a bigger scale than would otherwise have been possible. The total number of scientists engaged on biophysical research at King’s College is at the present time 26, and the corresponding number of technicians 23.

Heat-Etching with a Bullivant Type II Simple Freeze-Cleave Device

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 106-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald S. Weinstein ◽  
N. Scott McNutt
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Massachusetts General Hospital ◽  
Type I ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Temperature And Pressure ◽  
The University

The Type I simple cold block device was described by Bullivant and Ames in 1966 and represented the product of the first successful effort to simplify the equipment required to do sophisticated freeze-cleave techniques. Bullivant, Weinstein and Someda described the Type II device which is a modification of the Type I device and was developed as a collaborative effort at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The modifications reduced specimen contamination and provided controlled specimen warming for heat-etching of fracture faces. We have now tested the Mass. General Hospital version of the Type II device (called the “Type II-MGH device”) on a wide variety of biological specimens and have established temperature and pressure curves for routine heat-etching with the device.

Formation and Development of the Pre-Professional Training System of Foreign Medical Applicants in Ukraine (Historical and Educational Aspect)

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 95-98
Author(s):  
Iana Proskurkina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Students ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Training System ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Effective System ◽  
History Of ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University ◽  
History Of Formation ◽  
Educational Aspect

Abstract The growing number of foreign applicants looking forward to getting education in Ukrainian medical universities makes us find the ways how to improve and make effective the pre-professional training system of foreign medical applicants for further education. The article deals with the issues of the history of formation and development of the preprofessional training system of foreign medical applicants in Ukraine. On the ground of the electronic databases of the official websites of higher educational establishments, the data on years of opening first offices of the dean, departments and preparatory faculties for foreign medical applicants in Ukrainian medical universities are analyzed and systematized. Also the data on the setting up preparatory faculties at other universities who carry out licensed training of foreign students of the medical profile are presented. The data on the operating and management of such institutions in the system of the University administration are generalized. It’s revealed that during the years of its functioning the pre-professional training has changed, in particular the system was commercialized and the institutions involved in training foreign applicants have been reorganized. The modern trends in teaching foreign medical students at the preparatory faculties of the Ukrainian medical universities are displayed. Based on the analysis of the data it is concluded that the system of the pre-professional training of foreign medical applicants was set up in the 50s-60s years of the twentieth century. During this time, some positive experience in the preparation of future international medical specialists has been gained. The system of the pre-professional training of foreign medical applicants has been comprehensively improved and an effective system of managing foreign medical applicants has been created.

Set up and management of a Data Science faculty at Shiga University

Impact ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (10) ◽  
pp. 18-20
Author(s):  
Akimichi Takemura
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
Science Faculty ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
Global Understanding ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University ◽  
Do So ◽  
Undergraduate Class

Shiga University opened the first data science faculty in Japan in April 2017. Beginning with an undergraduate class of 100 students, the Department has since established a Master's degree programme with 20 students in each annual intake. This is the first data science faculty in Japan and the University intends to retain this leading position, the Department is well-placed to do so. The faculty closely monitors international trends concerning data science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and adapt its education and research accordingly. The genesis of this department marks a change in Japan's attitudes towards dealing with information and reflects a wider, global understanding of the need for further research in this area. Shiga University's Data Science department seeks to produce well-trained data scientists who demonstrate a good balance of knowledge and skills in each of the three key areas of data science.

Description of multimorbidity clusters of admitted patients in medical departments of a general hospital

2021 ◽  
pp. postgradmedj-2020-139361
Author(s):  
María Matesanz-Fernández ◽  
Teresa Seoane-Pillado ◽  
Iria Iñiguez-Vázquez ◽  
Roi Suárez-Gil ◽  
Sonia Pértega-Díaz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Hospital ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Hypertensive Heart Disease ◽  
Chronic Kidney Failure ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
Heart Valve Disease ◽  
Malignant Neoplasms ◽  
Hospital Data ◽  
Data Set ◽  
And Gender

ObjectiveWe aim to identify patterns of disease clusters among inpatients of a general hospital and to describe the characteristics and evolution of each group.MethodsWe used two data sets from the CMBD (Conjunto mínimo básico de datos - Minimum Basic Hospital Data Set (MBDS)) of the Lucus Augusti Hospital (Spain), hospitalisations and patients, realising a retrospective cohort study among the 74 220 patients discharged from the Medic Area between 01 January 2000 and 31 December 2015. We created multimorbidity clusters using multiple correspondence analysis.ResultsWe identified five clusters for both gender and age. Cluster 1: alcoholic liver disease, alcoholic dependency syndrome, lung and digestive tract malignant neoplasms (age under 50 years). Cluster 2: large intestine, prostate, breast and other malignant neoplasms, lymphoma and myeloma (age over 70, mostly males). Cluster 3: malnutrition, Parkinson disease and other mobility disorders, dementia and other mental health conditions (age over 80 years and mostly women). Cluster 4: atrial fibrillation/flutter, cardiac failure, chronic kidney failure and heart valve disease (age between 70–80 and mostly women). Cluster 5: hypertension/hypertensive heart disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, ischaemic cardiomyopathy, dyslipidaemia, obesity and sleep apnea, including mostly men (age range 60–80). We assessed significant differences among the clusters when gender, age, number of chronic pathologies, number of rehospitalisations and mortality during the hospitalisation were assessed (p<0001 in all cases).ConclusionsWe identify for the first time in a hospital environment five clusters of disease combinations among the inpatients. These clusters contain several high-incidence diseases related to both age and gender that express their own evolution and clinical characteristics over time.

THE UNIVERSITY AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

Science ◽  
1932 ◽  
Vol 75 (1937) ◽  
pp. 173-181
Author(s):  
J. EWING
Keyword(s):  
Medical Profession ◽  
The University
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