COLCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY.

The Colchester Medical Society, 1774

THE COLCHESTR MEDIcAL SocIrY was founded in 1774 by Robert Richardson Newell (1750-1814), a surgeon and apothecary practising in the town. It is the oldest provincial medical society in Great Britain.' The earliest minute books have been lost, but the date is confirmed in Dr. Newell's obituary notice in the local press," and by the Medical Register for 1779, which lists all the members at that ...

Medical Society

Medical Society

With the publication of the January number of its transactions, the Poona Medical Society completes the first year of its existence. The interest taken in the Society by its members is manifested by the numbers who attend its meetings, of which there have been three during the last quarter. The following gentlemen have shown cases and contributed articles of interest at the meetings, viz., Lieu...

The Calcutta Medical Society

hospital with an acutely bent knee-joint. An abscess was detected on the outside of it which was opened. The operation was followed by sloughing cellulitis which spread up and down the limb, extending upwards beneath the quadriceps extensor and downwards between the gastrocnemius and soleus. The back of the head of the fibula was found tr> be bare, and subsequently the front of the shaft of the...

The Ulster Medical Society

ear attaclhnment may be conniected to the receiver by means of rubber tubing, so that the physician can listen to heart-sounds in the familiar manner. 'I'he microphone,. which takes the form of a vibration pickup, is extremely unresponsive to extraneous souLIds, andl a rubber ring surrounding it reduces to a minimum noises which mav be caused bv handlinig the instrument. 'T'he frequency respons...