Other writings
by John S Gilbody
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articles (Acrobat format) 
Guy's - 2092. Medical science
friction. Published in the March
1992 Guy's Hospital Gazette.
The meaning of life? [Poem]. Published
in the June 1992 Guy's Hospital Gazette.
Do we see but not observe? Sherlock Holmes and the art of medical
diagnosis. Published in the Nov 1992 Guy's
Hospital Gazette.
Medical students' clinical
survival guide. The tricks of the trade revealed. Published
in the March 1993 Guy's Hospital Gazette.
Quackery versus rational
therapeutics. The useless versus the useful. Published
in the Nov 1993 Guy's Hospital Gazette.
Sherlock Holmes and the world
medical literature (1993).
Published in the Sherlock Holmes Journal, this article
discusses published medical papers about Holmes, such as the psychological profiling done
in the British Journal of Psychiatry (see Parts 1 and 2)!
Students at Guy's: the new
intake. Downfall of Dimpley; or, the leisure principle. Published
in the Feb 1995 Guy's Hospital Gazette.
Taking informed consent to the
limit. (A spoof consent form I found - wish
I'd written this but I didn't!). Published in the Summer 1995 St.
Thomas's Hospital Gazette.
Modern fairy stories: The contact. Published
in the Aug 1995 Guy's Hospital Gazette.
Modern fairy stories: The block of flats. Published in the Sept 1995 Guy's Hospital Gazette.
Vitamins: should we swallow them? (I'm particularly proud of this - my first and last article in Vogue!).
Published in the Oct 1995 Vogue.
The health consequences of
air pollution. Published in the Oct
1995 Hampshire Magazine.
Stop worrying. The answer to a
'stress-related' ulcer might simply be a course of antibiotics. Published in the Dec 1995 Woman Alive.
Me and my gizmo - email. (Everything I
hate about email!). Published in the Dec 1998 Pharmaceutical
Physician.
Steel True, Blade Straight:
Hampshire's Doctor of the Millennium. An
article about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (he invented Sherlock Holmes, wrote The Lost World (yep,
dinosaurs), publicised the Cottingley Fairies, invented cross-country skiing etc....).
Originally published in the Dec 1999 issue of Hampshire
Magazine (UK), the article is also available on the Web.
Cruise control for
the Internet (2). Published in the Oct
2000 Guy's Hospital Gazette.
Medical
literature
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citation and abstract, plus full text of the articles where available (Acrobat format)
Effects of maternal drug
addiction on the fetus. Citation:
Adverse Drug React Toxicol Rev 1991 Summer;10(2):77-88.
Impact of multidrug therapy
on the treatment and control of leprosy. Citation:
Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis 1991 Sep;59(3):458-78.
Errors of deglutition - real
and imagined; or, don't forget the psyche. Citation:
J Laryngol Otol 1991 Oct;105(10):807-11.
Differential cardiovascular
effects of propranolol, atenolol, and pindolol measured by impedance cardiography.
Citation:
Eur J Clin Pharmacol 1992;42(1):47-53.
Dose-related effects of
oestradiol on rat thymic and splenic T-lymphocyte responsiveness to mitogens.
Citation:
Int J Immunopharmacol 1992 Feb;14(2):167-72.
The shift away from
specialist psychiatric units in the management of alcoholism - a student's view.
Citation:
Alcohol Alcohol 1992 May;27(3):211-8.
Aspects of rehabilitation
in leprosy. Citation:
Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis 1992 Dec;60(4):608-40.
Sherlock Holmes.
Citation:
J R Soc Med 1993 Feb;86(2):122-3.
Screening under scrutiny
[health screening in the elderly]. Citation: Care
Eld 1993 June; pp.220-2. Full text.
What causes basal cell
carcinoma to be the commonest cancer? Citation:
Aust J Public Health 1994 Jun;18(2):218-21.
Leprosy and the Internet.
Citation:
Lepr Rev 1997 Dec;68(4):367-70. Full text.
Comparison of two
different formulations of mebeverine hydrochloride in irritable bowel
syndrome. Citation:
Int J Clin Pract 2000 Sep;54(7):461-4.
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