An account of the proceedings at the sixth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Bath, on Wednesday and Thursday, July 18th and 19th, 1838.

  • Provincial Medical and Surgical Association. Meeting
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[1838]
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Credit: An account of the proceedings at the sixth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Bath, on Wednesday and Thursday, July 18th and 19th, 1838. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    the confidence reposed in me during' the past year^ to give you some brief account of my stewardship in the present^ more especially as during the interval of the last and present meeting, a circumstance of very paramount importance to the present dignity and future interests of your Association has taken place, calculated, in the opinion of my official col- leagues and myself, to advance in no common de- gree the influential character of this body, and to give it (though properly without a “local habita- tion”) “ name” which will stamp the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association of Great Britain among the highest of those learned and scientific bodies whose proud design is to unite the cultivation of a noble philanthropy with the assiduous prosecu- tion of philosophical truth. To be distinguished among our fellow men—to deserve the approba- tion of the wise and good—and to secure that of the mass with whom we must necessarily come in contact, by the moral power as well as by the phy- sical improvements of this age of discovery, belongs to the higher and grander objects of your Associa- tion ; and it is a i)roud consideration to announce that the era of our importance and value as a na- tional organ for the extension and support of medi- cal science, has already commenced, and that, in conformity with your resolution at the last meeting, youi dutiful and loyal address to our gracious and youthful Queen was ])resented,and graciously receiv- ed by her Majesty, through the flattering introduc- tion to her royal presenceof her first MinisterofState. The next, peihaps the most pleasing communica- tion it is my duty to deliver, is that of the gratifying.