Cronenbergian:

1. Of or pertaining to David Paul Cronenberg (1943-), Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter and companion of the Order of Canada the highest civilian honour Canada can bestow.

2. Pertaining to body horror.

#OctoberFacts

‼️October Treats🤩 Not quite #oktoberfest rather #griref="/hashtag/gri" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gri #octoberfacts 😉 A daily dose of history - something you may or may not know about our past☺️

#gri history

Brought to you by us 😍

📸 @stupidythings
Hair & make up - au natural 😉

👋🏻 Cathedral - also looking👌🏼

Warm up for #gri #octoberfacts
Here are 5 we think you shld know☺️Welcome✌🏼
❤️We got a Royal Charter in 1791
❤️We opened 8 Dec 1794 hello 227🥳
❤️We sit on the site of The Bishop’s🏰
❤️In 1794 we had just 104 beds😱
❤️George Jardine was our 1st Manager
👉🏻https://dir.lat/ONZNGb

This may be of interest @USAinScotland and we also give you the commemorative display to Dr McCune Smith which hangs in #griref="/hashtag/gri" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gri #blackhistorymonth #BlackHistoryMonth2021 #gri #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest #6

Nurses to grave robbers😱

Remember John Burns?

#griref="/hashtag/gri" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gri surgeon btw 1797-98 but due to association with grave robbing not reappointed until 1808🙈

Family set up🛳 company - now Cunard & Macbraynes & John drowned on 1 of their 🛳 the Orion

#14 #gri #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest

3rd Nov = 1 year twitterversary🥳Thank you for your support🥰

Oct is perfect time to follow us #gri #octoberfacts incoming☺️

We solemnly swear to tweet

🏥 history - made & in the making😉
💕good feels
🐝bees
🍯honey
🌻gardens

& to finish - a little bit of history, bb 10/42😳

Wm Macewen❤️animals

Leo🐶came to🏥Patients loved him💕

Leo was stolen & sold😱 but found & returned🥳

The lady who’d bought Leo for her ill sis was😢so Sir Wm gave Leo back

Some guy🥰

Tomorrow - learn abt wee Spunkie🐶, Macewen & a🐂

#1 #gri #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest

Wm Macewen grew up on Bute with Spunkie 🐶

Faced with an angry🐂 whilst out on a walk, Spunkie appeared from nowhere & saved Macewen by grabbing the 🐂 by the tail😍

Spunkie by name, spunky by nature🤣

Tomorrow learn abt #griref="/hashtag/gri" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gri architects

#2 #gri #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest

Phase 1 - new 🏥
Designed by Sir Basil Spence
Joins old 🏥 via link corridor
Queen Eliz Building officially opened 1986 by HRH
In main complex
-2300 rooms
-3.5 miles of corridors
- 12 lifts
All pt bed spaces 📻 & ☎️
Cost £40 million

#3 #gri #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest

16/6/1867

Using his antisepsis methods, Lister did mastectomy on his sister - others had refused. Isabella survived. Pub. Lancet 1875 - 19 years b4 Halsted - credited as pioneer of mastectomy.

#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth #checkyourboobs

#4 #gri #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest

1815 John Burns 1st Prof of Surgery @UofGlasgow Worked in #griref="/hashtag/gri" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gri from 1797

1911 Rbt Kennedy 1st St Mungo Chair of Surgery - announced in Nature no less☺️

2021 Prof Paul Horgan is the new St Mungo Chair Congrats🥳

<a href="http://bit.ly/2Ye6nrk" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://bit.ly/2Ye6nrk

#5 #gri #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest

James McCune Smith

⛓ slavery➡️1st black🇺🇸MD graduate
❌admission in🇺🇸due to race
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@UofGlasgow accepted👏🏻
👨🏿‍🎓 time at #griref="/hashtag/gri" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gri & MD 1837
🤩Dr writer abolitionist
👉🏻 👀 https://dir.lat/KFtekK

Everyone shld know his name☺️

#blackhistorymonth
#6 #gri #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest

#griref="/hashtag/gri" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#griref="/hashtag/grioktoberfest" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#grioktoberfest incomplete without booze stats🤣

🔪Mr Rutherford (HR) talented surgeon
🍾Liked his🍾🙊😂
📝 House committee report Aug 1915

James Macfarlane, Manager has signed the report🤩

More stats tomorrow

#7 #gri #octoberfacts

📸 HR in #gri theatre RCPSG/28/78

120 yr stats 1794-1914
⭐️503,416 patients through 🏥🚪🚪
⭐️451,275 dismissed, cured, relieved
⭐️10%⚰️

Not bad odds considering for abt the 1st 80 yrs noone washed hands, instruments or clothes & dressings were reused between patients😱

#8 #gri #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest

Two #gri #octoberfacts today - welcome😏🤣#friyay

Need state of the art accommodation - look no further! Matron’s flat newly refurbished 1993

All mod cons 1st class facilities🥳

Less so now😢but evidence of former glory Check the wood panels & that view😍

#8 #grioktoberfest

Some #griref="/hashtag/gri" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#griref="/hashtag/gri" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gri FIRSTS🥳

🦴Xray Dept in🌍1887 John Macintyre

🎓nurses training school 1893 Rebecca Strong & Wm Macewen

👑@rcpsglasgow Woman President @JackieDocjt 2018

🍯 🐝 🐝 May ‘21

😋#gri old pals lunch since 🦠😷 Sept ‘21 👋🏻Prof Lorimer

#9 #gri #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest

‘Let the photographs represent the form’

In addition to his many well known & remarkable achievements, Wm Macewen painstakingly recorded his work through photography. He took & developed the photos 📸 himself.

The Macewen collection 😍

#10 #gri #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest

Short one today. In 2022, #griref="/hashtag/gri" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gri will have a real live museum again ☺️

#11 #gri #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest

📸How it started ➡️ how it’s going

The 1st documented surgeon at #griref="/hashtag/gri" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gri was Charles Wilson. Archibald Young worked alongside him. Both were attacked - and survived to tell the tale - Glasgow was clearly a dangerous place in the 1700s 😱

#12 #gri #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest

Colonnade ‘chicken run’
Main 🏥 ➡️nurses’ home

Matron 👀 from above for nurses in late/with uninvited guests😱

‼️Forbidden to remove hat until in colonnade‼️ Woe betide anyone caught in basement corridor minus hat!

We love this 📸

#13 #gri #octoberfacts #grioktiberfest

Nurses’ League est Dec 1922
‘Per aspera ad astra’ through hardships to the ⭐️⭐️ Reunions, journal to keep nurses ‘connected as if it were a live wire to the work of GRI’ & a cot fund

We all need an occasional lift. Read & be inspired😍🌈

#15 #gri #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest

Rebecca Strong, our 1st matron reformed nurse training with methods adopted 🌍wide

Her son in law Aldolph Geyer did etching of #griref="/hashtag/gri" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gri which forms the 225 birthday celebration mural.

Have a look for his signature next time you are in #gri

#16 #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest

Annie Louise McElroy 1st #gri woman resident 1899

WW1 🇬🇧refused help from Annie & others inc Elsie Inglis

🇫🇷government✅

The 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Women’s🏥 for foreign service was born -all female staffed relief🏥

Nurse Louisa Jordan 📸4 was a staff member

#17 #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest

Elsie Inglis popped up yesterday - the tour de force behind The 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Women’s 🏥 🏥 Mostly associated with Edinburgh but she did undertake clincial instruction with Dr Alexander Robertson & Sir William Macewen
📸 Elsie in the #griref="/hashtag/gri" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gri chicken run☺️

#18 #gri #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest

1996 - the centenary of medical electrician John McIntyre setting up the very 1st X-ray Dept in the 🌍🥳 How did #gri mark the occasion? 🤔

😬 with a tea towel 🙈🤣

#19 #octoberfacts #grioktoberfest