Westminster Medical Society

The Westminster Medical Society was a London medical discussion group in existence from 1809 to 1850–1, when it merged into the Medical Society of London.

Its founders were Benjamin Brodie and Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, Baronet.^[1] Initially the Society absorbed the membership of the dormant Lyceum Medicum Londinense, founded in 1785 but inactive from about 1805.^[2]

Its Presidents included Augustus Bozzi Granville in 1829, when the profile of the Society was high during discussion of gestation period in the Gardner peerage case,^[3]^[4] in 1846 Henry Hancock,^[5] and William Dingle Chowne who worked for the union with the Medical Society of London.^[6] John Snow of Westminster Hospital attributed the development of his career to his association with the Society.^[7]

References

D. Zuck, The Westminster Medical Society 1809–1850, The History of Anaesthesia Society Proceedings vol. 42 (2010), pp. 9–25; ISSN 1360-6891. (PDF)

Notes

^ Zuck, p. 9.
^ Richard Hingston Fox, Dr. John Fothergill and his Friends; chapters in eighteenth century life (1919), p. 151; archive.org.
^ "Granville, Augustus Bozzi" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^ The medical point at issue was whether gestation of 311 days was possible: London Medical Gazette, vol. 7 (1831) p. 741; Google Books.
^ Whonamedit? , Henry Hancock.
^ Munk's Roll page, William Dingle Chowne.
^ Snow, Stephanie J. "Snow, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25979. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[1] Zuck, p. 9.

[2] Richard Hingston Fox, Dr. John Fothergill and his Friends; chapters in eighteenth century life (1919), p. 151; archive.org.

[3] "Granville, Augustus Bozzi" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[4] The medical point at issue was whether gestation of 311 days was possible: London Medical Gazette, vol. 7 (1831) p. 741; Google Books.

[5] Whonamedit? , Henry Hancock.

[6] Munk's Roll page, William Dingle Chowne.

[7] Snow, Stephanie J. "Snow, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25979. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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