Record of the events and work which led to the formation of that society by the amalgamation of the leading medical societies of London with the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society : being extracts from the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, 1905-1907 / Royal Society of Medicine.
- Royal Society of Medicine
- Date:
- 1914
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Credit: Record of the events and work which led to the formation of that society by the amalgamation of the leading medical societies of London with the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society : being extracts from the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, 1905-1907 / Royal Society of Medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Mr. D. H. GooDSALL: I should like-to say that I think that the attempt to form a society in 1869 failed somewhat because it was an attempt at absorption. In order to carry out the present scheme I think the interests of all the societies should be given the greatest consideration, so that no society should feel that it had been snuffed out. Then as to the advantages, it seems to me that it cannot be questioned for a moment that a union of all the societies would increase the strength and increase the power with the authorities and increase the good results, I think, to the general public. Then, from an economical point of view, I do not think there is any doubt about it that the money now subscribed will not all be required to do the present quantity of work. There would be one secretary and one place of meeting, and I think that the more it is considered the more we shall see what a great saving in the present expenditure would be gained by an amalgamation, and it would also certainly enable the junior members to join several societies instead of only one. Dr. HiNGSTON Fo::: May I make a remark with regard to the Harveian and Hunterian Societies, following on what my friend Dr. Glover Lyon has said. I admit to a certain extent the local element enters into the Harveian and Hunterian Societies, and, in a sense, into the central societies. I hope, therefore, that upon any committee that is formed Fellows of those two societies will be put upon it, in order that their interests and their probable advantages in any amalgamation that may be agreed to will be duly considered. The Chairman : I think perhaps I ought in my o]Dening remarks to have told the members present what are the societies which I thought would be first of all considered—those which hold their meetings at Hanover Square and Chaudos Street. At Hanover Square there are the Eoyal Medical and Chirurgical, the Pathological, the Clinical, the Obstetrical, the Balneological and Climatological, the Gynaecological, Anaesthetists, and the Laryugological Societies. Then at the Medical Society in Chandos Street there are the Medical, the Epidemiological, the Ophthalmological, the Otological, the Dermatological, the Neuro- logical Societies. As regai'ds space, there is not sufficient space at the present moment in Hanover Square, but that is one of the things which would have to be considered ; there is ample room for a considerable increase of the present accommodation, and it would be a matter of funds and arrangements ; probably, if necessary, it would be possible for two societies to meet on the same day. I also said in my opening remarks—I thought I had made it clear, for I endeavoured at all events to make it clear—that those who were interested in this scheme recognised that the Harveian and Hunterian Societies were on rather a different plane to the societies which treated special subjects, and I guarded myself by saying that I trusted that, although I](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21471605_0105.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
