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
- Date:
- [1838]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![indeed the flattering' reception of your Deputa- tion liy the highest in rank and most influential in character and talent among the leading members of our profession in the Metropolis. My distinguished and learned colleagues who accompanied and graced my humble pretensions with their support, received from one ot the brightest ornaments of surgical science—need I mention the name of Sir Astley Cooper?—a reception which, for liberal and splen- did hosjiitality, could not be exceeded ; imjiarting honour and consequence to your body through your accredited representatives, by drawing around his table for the occasion a great portion of the elite of metropolitan celebrity, who vied with “ our host” in doing honour to an Association which will soon connect, by links of courtesy and kind feeling, the best interests of the profession at large, and unite the provinces with the metropolis in a com- mon bond of union, alike important to its own dig- nity and the best interests of the Society itself. Should it therefore. Gentlemen, fall within the scope or intention of your Council to make the metro|)olis, at either an earlier or later period, the focus of your annual meeting ; should your “ local habitation” at any time be pitched in that mighty arena of talent and science, your names shall have hououiably jire- ceded you ; and I think 1 shall be supported by my able and learned colleagues in assuring you that you will be received by our metropolitan brethren, of the highest distinction, with a friendliness and good will, arising from the importance to society and to the ]jrofession at large of (he cause that unites you, as well as wi(h a courteous liberality, that will not](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2239090x_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
