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Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge

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Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge
Founding of the Society
Year
Authority / Notes
1783
According to Coley (2001), p.403, in 1783 George Fordyce (1736-1802) and John Hunter (1728-1793) founded the Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge in London. This was a small group of only nine members; it later grew to twelve.

Coley (2001), p.409, footnote 56, indicates that the Society had gone down to ten members in 1812, and was dissolved in 1818.

Seat of the Society
City
Authority / Notes
London
England
This location is supported by Coley (2001), p.403.
Name of the Society
Dates
Name
Authority
1783 - 1818 Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge Coley (2001), p.403 gives the founding year of 1783 and this name; its publications establish this name for 1793-1812; Coley (2001), p.409, footnote 56 gives the cessation year.
Journals of the Society
Years
Full Journal Title
Abbrev.
Indexed
1793-1812
(vol.1 - Vol.3)
 
A
Transactions of a Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge
According to the record in the Nat. Lib. Scotland cat., the three volumes are dated 1793, 1800 and 1812.
[Nat. Lib. Scotland cat.]
London, Trans. Soc. Imp. Med.
[RSLC, v.1, p.xlvii]
Trans. Soc. Improv. Med. Chir. Knowl.
[Notes Rec. Roy. Soc., Vol. 36, No. 2 (Feb., 1982), p.240 cites 1793, I.]
Trans. of a Society for Promoting Med. and Chirurg. Knowledge
[Phil. Trans., Vol. 116, (1826), p.193 cites an article by Everard Home in vol. i. p.138 referring to work done by John Hunter on a popliteal aneurism; the corresponding entry in Reuss, v.15, p.199 gives the reference as Transact. of the Soc. of Med. and Chirurg. Knowledge, Vol. I. p.138 and Vol. 2. p.235.]
Transact. of a Soc. for the Impr. of Med. and Chir. Knowledge
[Reuss, v.13, p.494 cites Vol. I. p.294.]
Transact. of a Soc. for the Improv. of Med. and Chirurg. knowledge
[Reuss, v.10, p.99 cites p.91; v.12, p.78 cites Vol.3.]
Transact. of a Soc. for the Improvement of Med. and Chirurg. Knowledge
[Reuss, v.13, p.247 cites p.53.]
Transact. of the Soc. for the Improv. of Med. and Chir. Knowledge
[Reuss, v.14, p.12 cites p. 103. 115.]
Transact. of the Soc. for the Improvement of Med. and Chirurg. Knowledge
[Reuss, v.10, p.4 cites p.243.]
Transact. of the Soc. of Med. and Chirurg. knowledge
[Reuss, v.10, p.1 cites Vol.2.]
Transactions of a Society for the Improvement of Med. and Chir. Knowledge
[Phil. Trans., Vol. 113 (1823), p.506 cites vol. i.]
Reuss
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