The Liverpool Medico-Chirurgical Journal : its past, present, and future / by Thomas H. Bickerton.

  • Bickerton, Thomas H. (Thomas Herbert), 1857-1933.
Date:
[1907]
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Credit: The Liverpool Medico-Chirurgical Journal : its past, present, and future / by Thomas H. Bickerton. 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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    but, so far as is known, it had not exerted any influence on the medical profession, or on the public, nor, so far as is known, had there been any printed record of its work in existence. But on April 9th, 1832, there appears in the minute-book of the Liverpool Medical Library the following entry: “ Dr Lane proposed by Dr Williams”; and again on May 10th: “Dr Lane duly elected.”1 The election of this gentleman was destined to play an important part in the advancement of medical science in Liverpool, for nine months later, namely on January 1st, 1833, there appeared the first Liverpool medical journal. It contained forty-eight pages, and was styled The Liverpool Medical Gazette, or Monthly Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences. The Journal consisted of original articles, clinical cases, reviews and notices of books, medical intelligence, and correspondence. For this interesting and valuable publication Dr Lane was entirely responsible. The position which he occupied in the medical world is abundantly shown on the title-page of the Gazette. But his qualifications to carry out his self-imposed task were by no means completely summarised in this list of his professional titles. It would have been impossible to have found a man better qualified to carry out this work. With medical skill and experience he combined an absorbing industry, which was thoroughly exemplified in the pages of the' Journal. But these pages pay a still higher tribute to the worth of Dr Lane, for they breathe a literary ability which commends itself to the lay as well as to the medical reader. His style is reminiscent of that which was best in the essayist days of English literature, and, the subjects apart, one might easily imagine, while perusing the pages of the early Journals, that The Tatler, The Spectator, or The Guardian were ensrossino; his attention. Dr Lane recognised that a profession which ministered to the body diseased should play an important part in social 1 January 8th, 1833, elected Member of Committee ; January 13th, 1834, elected Treasurer and Secretary.