Ronald Girdwood
Scottish physician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ronald Haxton Girdwood was a Scottish physician, Professor of Therapeutics at the University of Edinburgh and a President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He undertook research into megaloblastic anaemia and was awarded a gold medal for his MD thesis. He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1975 to 1982 and oversaw the expansion of the medical school. He was a member of the Committee on Safety of Medicines. He was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club in 1965. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1978 and awarded a CBE in 1985.
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- Megaloblastic Anaemia Occurring During Primidone Therapy (1956) (92)
- A folic-acid excretion test in the investigation of intestinal malabsorption. (1953) (82)
- Possible association between pernicious anaemia and leukaemia: A prospective study of 1,625 patients with a note on the very high incidence of stomach cancer (1968) (61)
- The megaloblastic anaemias; their investigation and classification. (1956) (60)
- The absorption of folic acid and labelled cyanocobalamin in intestinal malabsorption, with observations on the faecal excretion of fat and nitrogen and the absorption of glucose and xylose. (1960) (58)
- The Metabolic Effects of 4-Aminopteroylglutamic Acid in the Guinea-Pig (1951) (56)
- Folate status in the elderly. (1967) (52)
- Lignin: a bile-salt sequestrating agent. (1968) (51)
- Folic acid, its analogs and antagonists. (1960) (45)
- The occurrence of growth factors for Lactobacillus leichmannii; Streptococcus faecalis and Leuconostoc citrovorum in the tissues of pernicious anaemia patients and controls. (1952) (44)
- Jejunal Biopsy in Malabsorptive Disorders of the Adult (1961) (44)
- Microbiological Methods of Assay in Clinical Medicine with Particular Reference to the Investigation of Deficiency of Vitamin B12 and Folic Acid (1960) (42)
- Observations on aminoacid absorption. (1962) (40)
- Response of megaloblastic anaemia of prednisolone. (1957) (36)
- Plasma and erythrocyte folate in iron deficiency and folate deficiency. (1970) (35)
- Drug Induced Blood Disorders (1964) (34)
- The intestinal content in pernicious anemia of factors for the growth of Streptococcus faecalis and Lactobacillus leichmannii. (1950) (31)
- A study with the electron microscope of the jejunal epithelium in primary malabsorptive disease (1962) (30)
- Folic acid in the treatment of the sprue syndrome. (1947) (29)
- Death after Taking Medicaments (1974) (28)
- BACTERIAL CHANGES IN THE SMALL INTESTINE IN MALABSORPTIVE STATES AND IN PERNICIOUS ANAEMIA. (1964) (27)
- Folic Acid as a Therapeutic Agent (1947) (27)
- Intrinsic-factor secretion in response to pentagastrin. (1967) (26)
- The role of folic acid in the blood disorders. (1959) (26)
- Folic-acid-excretion Studies in the Investigation of Malignant Disease (1953) (25)
- Blood disorders due to drugs and other agents (1973) (24)
- The imbalance of vitamins with particular reference to folic acid. (1948) (24)
- Observations on Tests of Folic Acid Absorption and Clearance (1961) (23)
- The interrelationships of factors that influence the megaloblastic anemias. (1952) (22)
- Clinical Trials of A.C.T.H. in Haemolytic Anaemia (1951) (22)
- Methods in Toxicology (1971) (21)
- Rapid Estimation of the Serum Vitamin B12 Level by a Microbiological Method (1954) (20)
- Haemorrhagic episodes in haemophilia: a 5-year prospective study. (1966) (19)
- Folic acid in the treatment of megaloblastic anaemia. (1946) (18)
- The Relationships between Vitamin B12, Folic Acid and Folinic Acid (1952) (18)
- Pernicious Anaemia of Pregnancy and Puerperium (1948) (18)
- Jejunal Biopsy in Patients with Malabsorptive Disease (1966) (16)
- PERNICIOUS ANÆMIA AS A CAUSE OF INFERTILITY IN TWINS (1971) (16)
- The Folate Status of Alcoholics (1970) (15)
- Effect of A.C.T.H. and Cortisone Therapy in Blood Disorders (1952) (15)
- TRIMETHOPRIM/SULPHAMETHOXAZOLE: LONG‐TERM THERAPY AND FOLATE LEVELS (1973) (15)
- Management of intracranial haemorrhage in haemophilia. (1966) (13)
- Malignancy and the Small Intestinal Mucosa (1964) (13)
- Refractory Iron-deficiency Anaemia Treated with Intravenous Iron (1948) (13)
- Some aspects of the metabolism of antimegaloblastic substances in man. (1953) (13)
- Abnormalities of Vitamin B12 and Folic Acid Metabolism—their Influence on the Nervous System (1968) (12)
- Erythrocyte vitamin B12 activity in health, polycythemia, and in deficiency of vitamin B12 and folate. (1970) (12)
- The significance of abnormal bacterial proliferation in the gastrointestinal tract after gastric surgery. (1967) (12)
- Application of whole body counting to the measurement of vitamin B12 absorption with reference to achlorhydria. (1969) (11)
- MEGALOBLASTIC ANAEMIA DUE TO DIETARY DEFICIENCY. (1964) (10)
- Treatment of pernicious anaemia with Leuconostoc citrovorum factor. (1951) (10)
- The measurement of calcium absorption by a double-isotope method (1964) (9)
- Content of Haemopoietic Factors in Liver Extracts (1950) (9)
- Absorption in sprue of vitamins of the B complex. (1956) (8)
- Treatment of the megaloblastic anaemias with citrovorum factor. (1951) (8)
- Some Investigations of Folic-Acid Deficiency (1964) (8)
- Determination of vitamin B12 absorption by a simple whole body counter (1968) (8)
- Seasonal incidence of megaloblastic anaemia of pregnancy and the puerperium. (1957) (7)
- Pernicious anaemia as a cause of infertility in twins. (1971) (7)
- Fifty Years After: Some Experiences of the Medical Care of Prisoners of War (1993) (7)
- Gastric secretion, gastric antibody status and pernicious anaemia in carcinoma of the stomach. (1969) (7)
- The Transfer of One-Carbon Units: Mode of Action of Substances with Haemopoietic Activity in Megaloblastic Anaemia (1959) (6)
- Clinical trials of ACTH in haemolytic anaemia. (1951) (6)
- Nutritional Folate Deficiency in the United Kingdom (1969) (6)
- Anaemia and marasmus in Indian troops on active service (1948) (6)
- IMPORTANCE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY (1983) (5)
- Folate depletion in old age. (1969) (5)
- The Absorption of Vitamins in Disorders of the Alimentary Tract (1955) (5)
- Problems in the assessment of vitamin deficiency (1971) (5)
- CARCINOGENICITY OF IRON-DEXTRAN COMPLEX (1960) (5)
- Renal excretion of hydroxocobalamin in man. (1965) (5)
- SERUM-CYANOCOBALAMIN LEVEL IN CHRONIC INTESTINAL DISORDERS (1957) (4)
- Treatment of Anaemia (1952) (4)
- “Imferon” and Cancer (1960) (4)
- The nature of possible adverse reactions to co-trimoxazole. (1976) (4)
- Modern Drug Treatment and Potential Hazards to Health (1971) (3)
- Vitamin B12 and Related Factors: A Clinical and Experimental Review (1950) (3)
- Drug-Induced Anaemias (2012) (3)
- The teaching of therapeutics. (1979) (3)
- The Factors That Commonly Worry the Patient in Hospital (1949) (3)
- The Treatment of the Macrocytic Anaemias (1951) (3)
- Fifty Years of an Organized Blood Transfusion Service in Scotland (1990) (3)
- The microbiological assay of vitamins and amino acids. (1963) (2)
- A case of coexisting duodenal uceration and idiopathic steatorrhea. (1968) (2)
- Macrocytic Anaemia in Rheumatoid Arthritis (1963) (2)
- Experimentation on prisoners by the Japanese during World War II. (1985) (2)
- POST-MORTEM CAESAREAN SECTION. (1965) (2)
- The uptake of vitamin B12 byE. coli: Possible significance in relation to the blind loop syndrome (1968) (2)
- Studies on intrinsic factor antibodies. (1968) (2)
- Small-bowel Mucosa in Ulcerative Colitis (1964) (2)
- The Burma Campaigns—1942–1945 Clinical Aspects (1950) (2)
- The Place of Diet in the Treatment of the Sprue Syndrome (1950) (2)
- DEFICIENCIES OF FOLIC ACID AND VITAMIN B12 IN THE ELDERLY (1968) (2)
- Folie Acid and the Nervous System. (1948) (1)
- Performances that went wrong. (1987) (1)
- Prospects for Medicine in the 1970s (1972) (1)
- Three hundred years of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. (1981) (1)
- Macroglobulinaemia treated with prednisone, azathioprine, and folic acid. (1970) (1)
- Malabsorption. Proceedings of the Fourth Pfizer International Symposium, Edinburgh, May 1968. (1969) (1)
- VITAMIN B12 AND PERNICIOUS ANÆMIA (1950) (1)
- Current therapeutics. CCXXXVI. Folic acid. (1967) (1)
- The Interaction of Drugs, with Particular Reference to Intravenous Additives (1973) (1)
- Some Problems of Nursing Today* (1966) (1)
- Patient Care in the Age of Science* (1963) (1)
- [Vitamin B12 and folic acid deficiency diseases in the human]. (1958) (1)
- Nutritional Factors and Anaemia (1969) (1)
- Determination of vitamin B 12 absorption by a simple whole body counter. (1968) (1)
- The Investigation of a patient believed to have a blood disorder (2014) (0)
- Co-trimoxazole as a possible cause of folate depletion. (1973) (0)
- A SYMPOSIUM ON ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS (1973) (0)
- Determination ofvitamin B12absorption bya simple wholebodycounter (1968) (0)
- SPRUE syndrome. (1952) (0)
- Some Aspects of Disordered Folic Acid Metabolism in Man (2008) (0)
- The possible effects of gastro-intestinal bacteria on the absorption of vitamin B12. (1955) (0)
- Personal View (1971) (0)
- Clinical Guide to Undesirable Drug Interactions and Interferences S olomon G arb Harvey Miller & Medcalf, London Pp. 512. Price £5.00 (1973) (0)
- WHAT IS ACETAMINOPHEN ? (1975) (0)
- How the RAMC almost lost its band. (1978) (0)
- Some problems of the haemolytic anaemias. (1952) (0)
- A better deal for overseas doctors (1984) (0)
- Medical admissions and discharges. (1979) (0)
- A more comprehensive classification of the anaemias associated with deficiency of anti-megaloblastic substances. (1954) (0)
- The Role of the Universities in Postgraduate Medical Education (1971) (0)
- Medical affairs in the Far East after V-J day. A personal view. (1995) (0)
- Some contributions to the study of the megaloblastic anaemias and other conditions associated with disordered metabolism of cyanocobalamin, pteroylglutamic acid and related substances (1954) (0)
- Letter to the Editor (1969) (0)
- Blood transfusion in Europe (1990) (0)
- Autumn Books: Editing a medical textbook (1984) (0)
- Some Considerations of the Sprue Syndrome (1970) (0)
- The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh 1729-1979. Its influence on medicine overseas. (1979) (0)
- Teviot Place now:— The Edinburgh Medical School in 1978 (2014) (0)
- Uticillin (1975) (0)
- Microbiological assay of haemopoietic factors (1952) (0)
- Plasma and erythrocyte vitamin B12 activity assayed by E. gracilis in health, polycythaemia and megaloblastic anaemia. (1968) (0)
- Iron Deficiency: Pathogenesis, Clinical Aspects, Therapy Ed. L. H ALLBERG, H. G. H ARWERTH, A. V ANNOTTI Academic Press, London and New York Pp. 628. Price £6. (1971) (0)
- The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh 1729–1979 (1979) (0)
- [Not Available]. (1948) (0)
- Six cases of macrocytic anaemia (1939) (0)
- Haematology ‐ Twenty‐five Years of Major Advances (1971) (0)
- LEUKOCYTES AND LEUKOCYTIC DISEASE (2005) (0)
- Developments in therapeutics in the past fifty years. (1981) (0)
- Letters to the EditorCLINICAL HEMATOLOGY (1969) (0)
- On Being a Medical Student in the 1930s (1998) (0)
- Letter: What is acetaminophen? (1975) (0)
- Junior Staff and Private Patients (1971) (0)
- IMPORTANCE OF THE ILEUM IN THE ABSORPTION OF VITAMIN B12 (1957) (0)
- Budding of Thrombocytes from Megakaryocytes∗ (1949) (0)
- Folic-acid Absorption Tests (1960) (0)
- Haematological side-effects of drugs. (1976) (0)
- Pathogenesis of B12 avitaminosis (1957) (0)
- Absorption in Sprue of Yitamins of the B Complex. (1956) (0)
- The content of haemopoietic factors in liver extracts; relationship to clinical response. (1950) (0)
- PERNICIOUS ANAEMIA OF PREGNANCY AND THE PUERPERIUM (1948) (0)
- Current views on pernicious anaemia. (1962) (0)
- The excretion of pteroylglutamic acid and citrovorum factor in health and disease. (1952) (0)
- Nutritional factors in blood-cell formation (1960) (0)
- The Scientific Age and the Nurse (1964) (0)
- The Department of Medicine of 1972. (1963) (0)
- The Doctor and the Pharmaceutical Industry (1973) (0)
- Letter: Drug names. (1974) (0)
- Occasional Reviews: India revisited (1980) (0)
- Treatment of Pernicious Anaemia (1947) (0)
- GIRDWOOD : The Treatment of the Macrocytic Anaemias effective in the treatment of pernicious anaemia (2008) (0)
- A Primer of HaematologyF. A.WARDButterworth, London Pp. 106. Price £1.90. (1972) (0)
- Advances in medicine. (1973) (0)
- Effect of Berkefeld filtration on the binding activity of human gastric juice (1969) (0)
- LIVER EXTRACTS IN PERNICIOUS ANÆMIA (1949) (0)
- Treatment of pernicious anemia. (1947) (0)
- Malabsorption : [papers read at the fourth symposium of the Pfizer Foundation of the Post-graduate Medical School, University of Edinburgh] (1969) (0)
- The Scottish Medical Journal--its development and progress. (1974) (0)
- The first twenty years of the Medico-Pharmaceutical Forum. (1988) (0)
- A Symposium on Blood Disorder (1964) (0)
- Vitamin B12 and Folic Acid in the Megaloblastic Anæmias (1951) (0)
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