The Foundation of the Medico-Chirurgical Society and The History of Military Medicine in England

Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society: a bicentennial history 1789–1989

GEORGE P. MILNE (ed.), Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society: a bicentennial history 1789-1989, Aberdeen University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xv, 313, illus., £17.00+£1.50 p&p from Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society, Medical Centre, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB9 2ZB. Readers who assume from the title that this is a structured history of Scotland's oldest Medico-Chirurgical Society will be sadly disappo...

James Parkinson: his life and times

GEORGE P. MILNE (ed.), Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society: a bicentennial history 1789-1989, Aberdeen University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xv, 313, illus., £17.00+£1.50 p&p from Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society, Medical Centre, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB9 2ZB. Readers who assume from the title that this is a structured history of Scotland's oldest Medico-Chirurgical Society will be sadly disappo...

The History of Medicine in Bristol and of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society *An address to the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society.

The XlVth to XVIIth Centuries Unfortunately, we know very little about the organisation or practice of medicine at this time. That great medical historian Dr. Charles Singer wrote of medicine then:? 'The prevailing conception of disease was archaic, diagnosis and prognosis was based on the state of the stars and an inspection of the urine, treatment consisted of blood letting and the use of her...

Infectious Diseases, Report by the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh on Isolation and Other Matters in Connection with the More Common

Abdominal Pain in Childhood *Being the substance of a lecture delivered before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Bristol on May 13th, 1936.

It is eminently desirable that a lecturer who has honour of addressing the Medico-Chirurgical Society should select a subject of interest to both surgeons and physicians, and for this reason I have ?hosen abdominal pain, for there can hardly be a clinical symptom more evenly shared by medicine a]id surgery. In childhood the subject is made more difficult by the inability of the patient to descr...