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Dental Verses – Number 2

BDA West of Scotland Branch Minutes
December 1969

By Bob McKechnie

The last meeting was held on December the 10th
It went on and on at inordinate length,
It was billed as starting sharp at eight,
In fact it was fully five minutes late.
There were three apologies and one new member,
Their names, I’m afraid, I can’t remember.
Oh yes, a moment I do recall,
Prof Ireland(1), Lusk Gibson (2), but that’s not all.
As I proceed with this lengthy recital,
The other chaps name was Andy Carmichael(3) .
Don Chrystie(4), our President, the speaker invited,
To give us his talk and he got us excited,
For he was Anaesthetist, Henry(5) by name,
Down from the Victoria, a man of great fame.
He played us some music and showed us his pictures,
Which were mostly of complex mechanical fixtures,
But the next lot were all about people collapsing
And were not nearly so mentally relaxing.
He told us if someone collapsed at your feet,
It was best to be ready and not have a good “greet”
His pictures and message were really spectacular
But let me repeat it once more in the vernacular,
If in your own surgery, a patient “draps deid”
For heavens sake Mac, just you keep the “heid”
Our thanks were proposed by big Hugh Campbell(6)

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(1) James Ireland, Professor of Conservative Dentistry, Glasgow Dental School
(2) James Lusk Gibson, Dental Practitioner, Kilmarnock
(3) Andrew Carmichael, Senior Lecturer, Glasgow Dental School
(4) Donald Chrystie, Dental Practitioner, Paisley
(5) Dr Gordon Henry, Consultant Anaesthetist, Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow
(6) Hugh Campbell, Consultant Oral Surgeon, Glasgow

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