An ordinary meeting of the Society was held on November 4th 2015 at the Dolphin Hotel.
The President was in the chair. At this meeting five medical students presented reports on their Foott Memorial Bursaries.
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An ordinary meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday 3rd November. The President was in the chair. The meetingheard from fivemedical students who had been in receipt of a Foott Memorial Bursary.
Read moreDr Mick Neilsen - The Foott Memorial Lecture
They had 19 admissions in that first year, with a 68% survival rate. By the 10th year they were admitting 125 patients per annum. By last year they were admitting more than 800 patients a year with an 86% survival rate.
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He reviewed Dr Footte’s medical career and noted that the origins of chemotherapeutic cancer treatment happened during his later career when it was observed that those who died in the 1st World War from mustard gas poisoning suffered an obliteration of the lymphoid tissue.
Read moreProfessor David Barrett FRCS - The Foott Memorial Lecture
Barrett who is Professor of Orthopaedic Engineering in the University of Southampton and a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Southampton General Hospital and then proceeded to outline the known history of Dr Footte, which has been recorded elsewhere in this record of our meetings. Professor Barrett spoke to the title ‘How to Ski Uphill [and how to survive modern orthopaedics]’
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