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7. CORRESPONDENCE.

Author

Jarventaus-Forrest, Riitta, Forrest, Richard D., Griffiths, A.P., Fairney, A., Gray, Richard E.S., Hartnell, G.G., Thomas, R.D., Sandor, Francis, Lovestone, S., Baldwin, R.N., Fowler, Robert, Connolly, Martin J., Townsend, Joy, Piper, Mary, Frank, A.O., Dyer, Sandra, Blain, Peter G., and Dunnell, Karen

Subjects
*MEDICAL sciences, *MEDICAL care
Abstract

Presents several letters related to medicine in Great Britain. Management of parental leaves among medical personnel; Complications of artificial ultraviolet radiation exposures; Examination of skin reactions on diphosphonate drugs.

Published
1988

9. Development of wound therapy from the Dark Ages to the present.

Author

Forrest, Richard D.

Subjects
WOUNDS & injuries, ANTI-infective agents, ANTISEPTICS, SEPSIS, LIFE sciences, PATIENTS, MEDICAL care
Abstract

The article discusses the major developments in wound management. It claims that handling wounds has been greatly shaped by various scientific fields like biology, chemistry, bacteriology, and pharmacology. Four decades after the introduction of several antimicrobials, antiseptic treatment were then proven to prevent infections and septicemia. It resolves that the progress in wound management has improved the general care for patients.

Published
1982
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10. Early history of wound treatment.

Author

Forrest, Richard D.

Subjects
WOUND care, HISTORY of medicine, FIRST aid in illness & injury, PAIN management, MEDICAL literature
Abstract

The article examines the early history of wound treatment. The objective of wound treatment has always been to reduce the risk caused by the wound and minimize potential complications. Written records containing medical information date from about 2500 B.C. are examined to determine how prehistoric man discovered the multitude of wound coverings, salves or ointments. Honey, butter and saps were some of the agents used by prehistoric and primitive people in treating wounds.

Published
1982
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13. Short-Term Effect of a 75 g Oral Glucose Load on Glycohaemoglobin Levels

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Forrest, Richard D, Jackson, Caroline A, Gould, Barry J, Casburn-Budd, Marianne, Taylor, Julie E, and Yudkin, John S

Abstract

Two hundred and twenty-three subjects out of a total of 347 with various degrees of glucose tolerance were recalled after a screening survey for diabetes. They were a randomly selected sample of people over the age of 40 and they underwent a formal 75 g glucose tolerance test in order to assess the effect of a glucose load on glycohaemoglobin levels measured by four different assay methods.Oral glucose loading was found to affect glycohaemoglobin levels only when these were measured by an agar-gel electrophoretic method that did not remove the labile aldimine-linked Schiff base fraction. The increase in glycohaemoglobin during the glucose tolerance test as estimated by this method was proportional to the 2 h blood glucose level. Glycohaemoglobin levels measured by agar-gel electrophoresis with elimination of the Schiff base, by affinity chromatography and by iso-electric focussing, were not affected by a 75 g oral glucose load. We conclude that blood samples for glycohaemoglobin assay may be collected at any time of the day, without regard to the subject's previous food intake, provided an assay method is used that removed the aldimine-linked labile fraction.

Published
1987
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17. Historical sources of surgical practice.

Author

Forrest, Richard D. and Forrest, R D

Subjects
LETTERS to the editor, ORTHOPEDICS
Abstract

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "The Origins of Orthopaedics," by A. W. Beasley in the August 1982 issue.

Published
1982

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