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The heavy rain has unfortunately resulted in a leak in the museum so we will be closed today, Tuesday 25th February. Open as normal tomorrow Wednesday 26th February. Apologies for the inconvenience. Our website is also down - not a good week 😜 This should be fixed later today...

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The Princess Louise Hospital for Limbless Sailors & Soldiers, set up by William Macewen who also designed The Erskine Limb - an early limb prosthesis. The hospital is now known as Erskine & has moved location. Luxury hotel, Mar Hall inhabits its former location.

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The 1st Glasgow Music Festival,1860, in The City Hall. Funds for hospitals had to be raised via subscribers, donations & events like this 🎶 until the NHS came to fruition on July 5th 1948 offering free healthcare for all, at the point of delivery, from cradle to grave.

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Lister ward 24 in the new surgical block which opened in May 1861. Lister came to work there 3 months later The entire block was built on the site of a cholera 'pit' - a mass grave for victims of the pandemics. Amid international outcry the ward was razed to the ground in 1926.

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Bain maries & a dumb waiter on the site of the former kitchens on the 6th floor Meals would travel from here to the patients & to the staff dining rooms. Patients would enjoy meals often prescribed from diet tables; these included booze, available for patients and staff.

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'I was a rather troublesome woman, as soon as one step was taken, I proposed another' The nurses' home represents the determination of our 1st matron Mrs Strong who resigned in 1884 because managers refused to build a nurses' home. Strong returned in 1891 after they acquiesced.

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John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and anatomist was born #OTD 1728. This amazing illustration is taken from Hunter's Natural History of the Human Teeth (c.1771). #histmed

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So about that Dome which was, by all accounts, absolutely fabulous. It extended 40 foot from floor to ceiling and was made mainly from glass. Housed under the dome was the operating theatre, there would have been lots of light coming in through the dome onto the operating table.

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A view looking east along Argyle Street in 1910. Off to the left is Union St, and to the right is Jamaica St. Ahead on the left you can see Fraser's on the corner of Buchanan Street. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow

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Beautiful photo of the Adam building which opened its doors to the 1st admission on 8th Dec 1794. Despite issues with design & cost & the death of Robert Adam, the architect, the finished article was magnificent with a wonderful entrance bay looking out onto Cathedral Precinct.

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Joseph Lister died #otd 1912. He revolutionised surgery by implementing antisepsis based on discoveries made at Glasgow Royal Infirmary 🦠Contamination causes infection 🦠Decontamination prevents 🦠Basis of infection control 🦠Principles made surgery safe 🦠Saved 1000s of lives

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In the 1860s, Glasgow was one of the few European cities without a dedicated children's hospital. Many children died in overcrowded conditions in the slums. It wasn't until 1882 that The Royal Hospital for Sick Children opened at Garnethill. The last photo is ward 6 in GRI - 👀 rocking horse

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Looks 👌

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❤️ To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow ❤️ Planting a garden symbolises hope and faith in the future because each seed nurtured today brings new life tomorrow. 🌱 Garden signage ✅ Make like the little Robin and come see for yourself

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Glasgow Cathedral burial ground. Gravestone for George Jardine (1742 - 1827), Professor of Logic at Glasgow University and a founders of the Royal Infirmary. He was licensed as a minister, travelled to Europe as a tutor, and became Professor in 1787 until 1824. @friendsofgri.bsky.social

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We are trying out some scheduling apps to try to improve the content and also the frequency of our posts….bear with us…little bit of trial and error involved 😬😂

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Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital 'Rottenrow' was a prestigious institution in Glasgow. It closed its doors in 2001. Murdoch Cameron undertook the first C sections here in 1888 - the first baby was named Caesar Cameron 'CC' 😍

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George Hogarth Pringle pictured with Lister in 1854 as a resident at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Photo @wellcomecollection His son, James worked with Macewen & Strong. Pringle, pictured to the right of the seated anaesthetist, invented the Pringle manoeuvre which controls blood loss from the liver.

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From Glasgow Centre for Population Health (gcph.co.uk) Pioneering the Health of the City republished to mark Glasgow’s 850th anniversary - See also @friendsofgri.bsky.social www.gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...

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We will be closed tomorrow because of the severe weather. Take care everyone and don’t take any risks 🙏 See you next week 💗

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We are opening tomorrow for a special event #musicinthegri with the fabulous @cchaimbeulmusic & @76scotta 🎶 130pm for approx 45mins. Come along if you can 🙏 Drop in and drop out so even if you only have 10mins to escape the pressures of life/work/whatever, do it 🤝 @whatsonglasgow.bsky.social

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Harvey Keitel on a balcony at the Royal Infirmary, overlooking Glasgow Cathedral and the Necropolis - from the 1980 film Death Watch (a spookily prescient warning about reality TV....)

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On our hols for another week and then social media activity will resume 💗 Museum will re-open Tuesday January 21st. Happy new year to all - may 2025 be everything you hope for 🙏

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#FestiveClothes don’t get more festive than this! #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social

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#WinterWonderland 📸 @walktalktours.bsky.social & Dr Keeley 😍 #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social

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Friday December 13th, 2pm HONEY 🍯 The Sale. In the museum. At #glasgowroyalinfirmary @scottishbeekeepers.bsky.social

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From a bygone era one of the beautiful #GRI #ChristmasCards to wish everyone a Happy Christmas 🎄Look at the lovely embossed logo 💗 @arascot.bsky.social

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December 2020, midst of Covid but we still found our #ChristmasSparkle How good does the boardroom look? #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social

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Now you see it, now you don’t 😂 Our little Lindt bears didn’t last long 😉😍 Friday⏩️Monday

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The first C sections in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 were performed at Rottenrow by Murdoch Cameron. Munro Kerr, later Muirhead Chair of Obs & Gyn @UofGlasgow was Cameron’s assistant. Not baby Jesus but the baby boy born on April 10th 1888 was named Caesar Cameron #nativity #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social

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230🎈 1792 👑 Royal Charter 1794 opened with 100 beds 🛏️ Remarkable things have happened within our walls 🧫Lister antisepsis 1865 🏫Strong Nurses’ school 1893 💀McIntyre X Ray dept 1896 💊WOSCOPS statins 1995 🐝Hives 2021 Here’s to 231 🥳 @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

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Come to our carol service for a little piece of #christmascharity🎄 Register here - it’s free 🥳 bit.ly/40Utd5K #archiveadventcalendar @arascot.bsky.social

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Late today 🙈 we were trying to pick our very best #chimney and we have a lot to choose from! It’s definitely this one 🤩 #smokin’ #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social

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A view that's sadly now much altered. Looking towards the remnants of the Victoria Infirmary in December 2020. Those elegant tempietti to the right were torn down in February 2022 as the demolition of James Sellars' 1888 ward block got underway. 📷 Past Glasgow

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No frills for #ArchiveAdventCalendar today Et Voila #tree @arascot.bsky.social

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This diary from the 1760s belonged to an Edinburgh medical student studying midwifery. He penned the name of his romantic interest in secret code. Can you guess her name?

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Day 4 of #ArchiveAdventCalendar and here are the staff of Mearnskirk Hospital (c.1953) ready and waiting for their #FestiveFeast! We don't know what was on the menu but we can see some lovely looking plates of fruit 🍇

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