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PRIVATE FRANK NOLAN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY THE GREAT WAR MEDICAL SERVICES 1 MEDICAL SERVICES 2 AMBULANCE TRAIN MILITARY HOSPITALS
WAR AND MEDICINE WHEN THEY SOUND THE LAST ALL CLEAR GROUP CAPTAIN DOUGLAS BADER GROUP CAPTAIN DOUGLAS BADER CBE DSO '
THE MEDICAL MEMORIES ROADSHOW
‘To understand where we are today
We have to know where we have come from’
LIVERPOOL ORTHOPAEDICS
TRANSFORMS
THE WORLD!
Mr. John C Dorgan MChOrth, FRCS
1745. 1st Infirmary On site of St George’s Hall
Opened 1749
Only 30 beds
1st year admitted 122 patients
2nd Infirmary opened in 1844 in Brownlow St.
Designed by John Foster
230 beds
Granted the title ‘Royal’ after visit by Queen Victoria in 1851
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As the population extended new hospitals were needed
to the North and South of the city centre
David Lewis Northern Hospital OPENED 1834
Royal Southern Hospital OPENED 1842
3rd Infirmary designed by Alfred Waterhouse opened in Pembroke Place in 1890.
This building exists to the present day and now houses a GP practice and offices.
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LIVERPOOL MEDICAL SCHOOL
The board of trade made it compulsory for ships going
to Africa and the tropics to carry a ‘ship’s surgeon’
Early medical training was based on apprenticeships on ships going to Africa
1778 Courses at Liverpool Infirmary and Dispensary
1816 Courses started at The Royal Institution
1834 School of Medicine and Surgery established at the Royal Institution
Anatomy teaching by Dr Richard Formby and William Gill
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LIVERPOOL MEDICAL INSTITUTION
1799 Liverpool Medical Library
1833 Liverpool Medical Society
The 2 societies merged and the LMI opened in 1837
Architect was Clark Rampling
Still functions today. Holds the Orthopaedic Library. Also has a display dedicated to Sir Robert Jones. Regular meetings still held
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LIVERPOOL MEDICAL SCHOOL
Clinical instruction provided at The Liverpool Infirmary and the Northern Hospital
1844 The Royal Institution School of Medicine and Surgery moved to new buildings behind the 2nd Infirmary in Dover Street.
Renamed The Liverpool Infirmary School of Medicine
Each lecturer contributed £5 to help furnish it. Lecturers also agreed to maintain the fabric, be responsible for the cleaning, repair windows and pay the porters wages!
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UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
Early 19th Century only 2 universities in England – Oxford and Cambridge
Scotland had 4 universities
No systematic professional training for law, medicine or even the church
The demand for medical training was to be an important element in the creation of the civic universities
London University founded 1826 but not able to award degrees until 1836
Liverpool Medical School
Prior to 1884 students had to obtain their degrees as external students of the University of London
1884 Liverpool Infirmary School of Medicine finished
Joined with University College Liverpool June 1884
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UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
1832 Durham University
1843 Queens College Birmingham
1851 Owens College Manchester
No provision initially for the teaching of Medicine
1872 incorporated the Manchester Royal School of Medicine
Study in 1875 showed that only 28% of the 14,000 medical practitioners in England and Wales were graduates. Only 5% had a degree from an English University
University of Liverpool
1881 University College founded
3 main sources
Liverpool Royal Institution
Royal Infirmary Medical School
Cambridge University Extension movement
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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LIVERPOOL
1877 Change in regulations for London MB
Royal Infirmary Medical School one of the prime movers
1880 site of disused lunatic asylum and adjacent land bounded by Ashton St., Brownlow Hill and the Infirmary Medical School
Victoria building designed by Alfred Waterhouse and opened in 1892
The term ‘Red Brick University’ coined by Prof Edgar Allison Peers in 1943
Referred to the 6 civic universities granted University status before WW1
Birmingham 1900
Manchester 1903
Liverpool 1903
Leeds 1904
Sheffield 1905
Bristol 1909
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FEDERAL VICTORIA UNIVERSITY
1880 The Victoria University Charter created a federal university with it’s seat at Owens College Manchester
Power to grant medical degrees 1883
November 1884 University College Liverpool admitted as 2nd constituent college
1887 Yorkshire College Leeds 3rd College admitted
Liverpool and Manchester became independent Universities 1st October 1903.
Leeds became independent April 1904
Sir Alfred Dale first Vice Chancellor 1903 to 1919
1913/14 largest Faculty was Medicine with 419 of 1178 registered students
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SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE
Founded 1899
Constitutionally and financially separate from the University
1st Lecturer Surgeon-Major Ross
1901 FRS
1902 1st British medical Nobel prize winner
Academic Surgery in Liverpool
Part time chairs from 1881 to 1945
1st full time Professor was Charles Wells 1945 to 1963
Orthopaedic surgery was part of the department of surgery until 1945
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Orthopaedics
Term coined by Nicolas Andry in 1741 in his book “Orthopedie”
on childhood deformity correction.
Orthos right or straight
Paideia rearing of children
Frontispiece adopted as symbol for many orthopaedic associations
Medical Act 1858
An Act to Regulate the Qualifications of Practitioners of Medicine and Surgery
Created the GMC
Stated that under Poor Law system Boards of Guardians could only employ those qualified in Medicine and Surgery as Poor Law Doctors.
A clause recognising foreign medical degrees allowed Elizabeth Blackwell to become the 1st woman registered with the GMC
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ORTHOPAEDIC PROFESSORS IN LIVERPOOL
1938 – 1949 Thomas Porter McMurray
1949 – 1963 Bryan McFarland
1964 – 1976 Robert Roaf
1976 – 1982 George Bentley
1983 – 1987 ROBERT OWEN
1987 – 1996 Leslie Klenerman
1996 – cont. Simon Frostick
THE IMAGES AND INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS PAGE
ARE TAKEN FROM TWO PRESENTATIONS GIVEN BY A
FORMER ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON
AND
LECTURER IN ORTHOPAEDICS
AT
LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY
MR JOHN DORGAN
THE TWO PRESENTATIONS CAN BE SEEN HERE
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