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The Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI) is a large teaching hospital. With a capacity of around 1,000 beds, the hospital campus covers an area of around 8 hectares (20 acres), and straddles the Townhead and Dennistoun districts on the north-eastern fringe of the city centre of Glasgow , Scotland.
In 1875, he became an assistant surgeon at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, being promoted to full surgeon in 1877. Around 1880 he began a training programme for nurses (focussing on sterilisation) at the infirmary under the charge of the Matron, Mrs Rebecca Strong (1843-1944). [ 2 ]
He was Professor at the University of Glasgow, of Greek from 1774, and then Professor of Logic and Rhetoric 1787 to 1824. [1] He was a co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783 and co-founder of Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1792. At the University of Glasgow he was a pioneer of collaborative learning; [2] he wrote up his method in a book.
1910 – 1917 Jessie Campbell, trained in the Victoria Infirmary. [15] 1917 – 1936 Janet Sloan Rodger, RRC, [16] also of the Royal College of Nursing Scotland Board. [17] 1936 – 1944 Isabella Stewart, trained in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, sister tutor, pioneer in developing a formal course of instruction for student nurses. [18]
His colleague John Macintyre (1857–1928) had established the world's first x-ray service for patients in Glasgow Royal Infirmary in March 1896. [8] This allowed James Hogarth Pringle an early, perhaps unique experience in fracture diagnosis and management using x-rays, and formed the basis for his book on fractures and their treatment. [9]
After the University of Glasgow moved from the city centre to the West End in the 1870s, distancing itself from the Royal Infirmary, a new teaching hospital was commissioned for the new university site and opened in 1874. [1] The Western Infirmary opened as a voluntary hospital relying upon donations and bequests from members of the public. [2]
A Committee of Management for the hospital was formed in 1804 and construction began in the Cowcaddens area of Glasgow in 1810. [3] It was originally opened as the Glasgow Lunatic Asylum in 1814, but after a royal charter was obtained, it became the Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum in 1824. [4]
He returned to work in Glasgow (for all his life) first in more parochial roles and then in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, having survived a serious attack of typhoid fever contracted in the former role. He was manager of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary from 1850. [2] From 1839 to 1878 he also served as Surgeon to the Gartnavel Royal Hospital. [3]