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Medical and Chirurgical Society of London

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Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
Founding of the Society
Year
Authority / Notes
1805
According to the Royal Society of Medicine website, the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London was founded in 1805 by several people who had left the Medical Society of London (founded 1773) because of the high-handed tactics of Dr. James Sims (then President of the latter Society). In 1834 it received a Royal charter and became the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.

According to the Royal Society of Medicine website, in 1907, the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London merged with several other specialist societies to form the Royal Society of Medicine.

We find an enumeration of the various constituent specialist societies (with their founding dates and merger dates) at the Royal Society of Medicine website (by going to the Summary area of the Archives in the Library area):

  1. Pathological Society of London (1846-1907),
  2. London Epidemiological Society (1850-1907),
  3. Odontological Society of Great Britain (1856-1907),
  4. Obstetrical Society of London (1858-1907),
  5. Clinical Society of London (1867-1907),
  6. Dermatological Society of London (1882-1907),
  7. British Gynaecological Society (1884-1907),
  8. Neurological Society of London (1886-1907),
  9. British Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Association (1888-1907),
  10. Laryngological Society of London (1893-1907)
  11. Society of Anaesthetists (1893-1908),
  12. Dermatological Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1894-1907)
  13. British Balneological and Climatology Society (1895-1909),
  14. Society for the Study of Diseases in Children (1900-1908),
  15. British Electrotherapy Society (1901-1907), and
  16. Therapeutical Society (1902-1907).
It will be noticed that not all the constituent societies joined the merger in 1907; a few others joined the merger in 1908 and 1909.
Seat of the Society
City
Authority / Notes
London
England
This location is supported by the name of the Society.
Name of the Society
Dates
Name
Authority
1805 - 1834 Medical and Chirurgical Society of London Royal Society of Medicine website.
1834 - 1907 Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London Royal Society of Medicine website.
Journals of the Society
Years
Full Journal Title
Abbrev.
Indexed
1809 - 1833
(Vol.1 - vol.18)
 
A
 Medico-Chirurgical Transactions / published by the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
The record in the Harvard Univ. cat. indicates that up to vol.18 the royal designation was absent.
The record in the GBV German Union cat. indicates that there was a French translation of part of this title in A1, and a German translation of part of this title in A2.
Continued by B.
[GBV German Union cat.; Harvard Univ. cat.] 		Med.-Chir. Soc. Trans.
[Proc. Roy. Soc., Vol. 30 (1879 - 1880), p.440 cites vol. lviii.]
Med. Chir. Soc. Trans.
[RSLC, v.1, p.l.]
Medico-Chirurg. Transact.
[Reuss, v.16, p.39 cites Vol.3.]
Medico-Chirurg. Transact. of the Med. and Chirurg. Soc. of London
[Reuss, v.16, p.39 cites Vol.10.]
Medico-Chirurgical Transactions
[Reuss, v.10, p.29 cites Vol.1.] 		Reuss
RSLC
1809
[i.e. pub. 1811]
(T.1)
 
A1
 Transactions Médico-Chirurgicales publiées par la Société de Médecine et de Chirurgie de Londres en 1809... Traduites de l'anglais et augmentées de notes...
The full title is given by a record in the Bibliot. Nat. France cat..
A French translation of the 1809 volume of A.
[Bibliot. Nat. France cat.; GBV German Union cat.] 		Transactions Médico-Chirurgicales
[Reuss, v.10, p.29 cites T.1.] 		Reuss
1.1809(1811)[?]
 
A2
 Medicinisch-Chirurgische Abhandlungen der Medicinisch-Chirurgischen Gesellschaft zu London
A German translation of part (evidently only the 1809 volume) of A.
[GBV German Union cat.] 		 
  
1835 - 1907
(Vol.19 - vol.90)
 
B
 Medico-Chirurgical Transactions / published by the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.
The record in the Harvard Univ. cat. indicates that up to vol.18 the royal designation was absent.
The record in the GBV German Union cat. indicates that vol.19 (1835) to vol.34 (1851 [?] was also known as Ser.2, vol.1 - 16,
Continues A. Continued by Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, a publication of the Royal Society of Medicine, into which Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London merged in 1907.
[GBV German Union cat.; Harvard Univ. cat.] 		Med. Chir. Soc. Trans.
[Proc. Roy. Soc., Vol. 42 (1887), p.365 cites vol. 63.]
Med. Chir. Soc. Trans.
[RSLC, v.1, p.l.]
Med.-Chir. Trans.
[RSLC, v.13, p.lviii.]
Med. Chirurg. Soc. Trans.
[Proc. Roy. Soc., Vol. 42 (1887), p.xxvii cites vol. 68.]
Trans. Med.-Chir. Soc. Lond.
[Proc. Roy. Soc., B Vol. 126, No. 845 (Feb. 3, 1939), p.524 cites 29, 1846.]
Trans. Med.-Chir. Soc. London
[Science, New Series, Vol. 114, No. 2965 (Oct. 26, 1951), p.446 cites 29 (1846).]
Trans. Med. Chirurg. Soc.
[Science, New Series, Vol. 14, No. 356 (Oct. 25, 1901), p.644 cites 1871.]
Trans. R. Med. Chir. Soc.
[Proc. Roy. Soc., B Vol. 97, No. 686 (Apr. 1, 1925), p.544 cites vol. 82 (1899).]
Trans. R. Med.-Chir. Soc. London
[J. Roy. Anthrop. Instit., Vol. 72, No. 1/2 (1942), p.22 cites Vol. 29, 1846.]
Trans. Roy. Med. Chir. Soc.
[Proc. Roy. Soc., Vol. 28 (1878 - 1879), p.252 cites vol. lix.] 		RSLC
1856/1857 - 1880/1882
(1. - 9.);
1882/1885 - 1885/1888
(N.S. 1. - 2.);
1888/1889 - 1898/1899
(3.Ser. 1. - 11.)
 
C
 Proceedings of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
[GBV German Union cat.; Harvard Univ. cat.] 		Med. Chir. Soc. Proc.
[RSLC, v.7, p.xix.]
Proc. Roy. Med. and Chir. Soc., Lond.
[Phil. Trans., B Vol. 185 (1894), p.781 cites 3rd series, vol. 4.]
Proc. Royal Med.-Chirurg. Soc.
[Phil. Trans., Vol. 160 (1870), p.104 cites vol. iv. No.6, 1864.] 		RSLC

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