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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![3 ^ Cxl CENTENARY MEETING of epidemic diseases could be formulated, the explanation of many intricate disorders of digestive and excretory organs was lacking, and tlieir satisfactory treatment was impossible. Most of the initiators of these advances in medical science which have led up to and accomplished such great results are, or have been. Honorary Fellows of the Society. The honoured names, Darwin, Pasteur, Marshall Hall, Villemin, Claude Bernard, Charcot, Lord Lister, Lord Kelvin, Koch, and others still living, are indelibly written upon the pages of science in its beneficent relations to humanity. Many others on our Honorary Fellows' list and amongst the Fellows of our Society are still heartily engaged in pressing on the work. It might not be in good taste to signalise them out, but they are well known to, and honoured by us all. There are other papers not directly connected with these four eventful discoveries which are of great practical and historical importance. Samuel Fenwick's paper on the Mici'oscopical Examina- tion of the Sputum and Marcet's paper on the Inocula- tion of Sputum in the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis followed close upon Yillemin's discovery of the inoculability of tubercle in 1865, prepai'ing us seventeen years beforehand for Koch's great discovery of the specific poison of that disease. Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson's pa]3er on Vaccino- Syphilis in 1871 was of vast and fai'-reaching public importance. The report of a committee on the Hypo- dermic Use of Medicines in 1867 marked the time, which to some of us may seem almost prehistoric, Avhen the hypo- dermic syringe was only coming into use. Dr. Ord's paper on Myxcfidema in 1877 may also be especially mentioned. But the chief work of later years has undoubtedly been the development of visceral and especially of abdominal surgery, the necessary conditions for which did not previously exist. It was within the walls of this Society that Spencer Wells, in 1871, established the operation of ovariotomy, Avhich led up to so many further developments of ovarian and uterine surgery ; and that Sir Frederick Treves in 1888 read his first paper on Relapsing Typhlitis](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21471605_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
