Valedictory address delivered to the members of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, at the last ordinary meeting of session 1852-53, April 15, 1853 / by William Murray Dobie.

Dobie, William M. (William Murray), 1828-1915.

Date:: 1853

Credit: Valedictory address delivered to the members of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, at the last ordinary meeting of session 1852-53, April 15, 1853 / by William Murray Dobie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$expected from the members of next year, tliis needful sum will^ soon be realise,4., I may add, tliat the old Hall itself has not, been forgotten.^' ,A subscription Avas set on foot this spring for the pm-pose of presenting the Society with an oil painting of its.^ former edifice. To this most of the ordinary attending members and also the extraordinary members m Ijown have,subscribed, witii much eijithusiasm; and it is proposed, should the funds allow o^it, to present each subscriber with a lithographic or jpliotograjohi^^ co|)^ of the painting. The needful amount has not yet heen Xeal-^^ isedv aind subscriptions will tiierefoye i?e.. thankfully received^ by' the Sociietv from those members iat a„distance who wisli this pro-, iect carried out, and wlio have not already contributed towards at. It IS perhaps out of place to mention, from this chair, the annual dinner held this year at the Waterloo Hotel; but as a, ■ ' ri . ■ ■ 'i'i:-' ■'■■'i-- ■■!i-i.!.-.->]) mo'li collateral indication of the Society's advancement^ I c.annot J)ass^ it over without a word.; This, convivial meeting was attended •iiom—^^fov \ii iud ^^yvl^8myflj '^cl b'jr(_o(^n9 stl Ui ioa ^aagsixicv ■)?• fiMi i-'wH! frii '• 1 • li.v.vf ff'. J! ri'f •'.!!/.' -.>'c.!;fT .iJ'iCK'i'oopy? ^ Mr A. Mercer Aaam^ Honorary Secretary,.lias fayoured me with tne lol-^ lowing' 'Ao'lfe respecting tlie' foundation stonej tte ttieSaT,' and diploiiids fOuAlJ* beneath the Old Hallin'Surgeon Sqiiare.'^ '^^'-^^'^ jYoi .:>ijsraaiJiUny Shortly after the sale of the Society's I4te Hall iri'SAffgeto's Squ&rejolt was desired to coninvjjuicate with the law-agent pf the Managers, of ;tl)e) Royal Infirmarj]^its, j^ufchasers—requesting,^^a^^p-r^pecia^ ^fe^J the gilded rod and serpent, surmounting the dome, .the foundation-stone, and any other relics of interest, might be preserved for the Society. This re-, quest was kindly acceded to by these gentlemen; and probably some detail^ as to the recent acqiiisition of these relics by the Society may riot be unirit^.^, resting to the members generalytJ/iBWiloBd bainuooojs 0(J njidi'I9xfir>n i,.Tike,foundation-stone was a very large ma8siYe,bIflc|c pf ?tfc(?ii% ijQvpfpd;bj!:. »(car^^d,^al^,^lpe,ari|iig,tbe^ol^o^^^^ o,h lol iHohh ,bniii •W0\ ^' iJil oiiJ /Sacred to jViedicine; ■ ' v. ^UO'^ iBsii izv'li -mq 'XiJo J' jni([?, *fiFounded April 2lst 1775. ^gnoilqi ' •(lumln ioa a-A oVl%,T)jps,, MLcIun^s, Mason/;^_.,,^.,X I0 a-ic-.c.,-,^,, ^5k'slabhks'lj6'eri pWBisrVedi ^ kiid is 'built tinto the Vdll of Jthe^fpaijlig^iir- the Society's new Hall, with a suitable inscription abovei it J / ;■),■ 1; j; i'm!) The ::^(;)uiidatipn-st<:^ne; ,itself,—j\¥lxich, 1 assail i njembers must,be; a ware, was laid by the venerable Dr Cullen in 1775,—contained a glass bottle, and a large leaden case, hermeticnlly sealed, resenibUng in shape and size one$