ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY. TUESDAY, JAN. 9TH, 1872. T. B. CURLING, F.R.S., PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR.

Address of the President of the Royal Society.

17 22 24 26 28 THE council's report, covering the period of a year ending September 30, makes mention of the scientific mission to Australia now completed by our Foreign Secretary,. Sir Henry Tizard, whom we are glad to welcome on his return. The report does not extend, however, to the later departure for India of our secretary , Professor A. V. Hill. The Government of India, through the Secret...

Sir John Tomes FRS, Fellows of the Royal Society, and dental reform in the nineteenth century.

In this paper Sir John Tomes HonFRCS LDS FRS (1815-95), surgeon-dentist, is presented as the agent through whose membership of the Royal Society the previously disorganized profession of dentistry shared in the process of reform and scientific progress that engaged the medical profession in the second half of the nineteenth century. The study identifies 70 of the Fellows of the Royal Society wh...

The Evolution of Liver Surgery *An address to the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, 9th March, 1966.

In all animals the liver is the largest single organ in the body and, not unnaturally, ^is has given rise to considerable speculation as to its function. In classical times the ^reek warriors foretold the future by examining the variation in the hilar structures a^d the lobes of the livers from sacrificial animals. Little surgical interest, however, was ^played in the liver until the advent of ...

A Case of Acute Ulcerative Endocarditis 1Read before the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, November 9th, 1898.

Case of Mesenteric Cyst. 1Read at the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, November 9th, 1904.

The subject of mesenteric cyst is one of considerable interest to all embryologists and abdominal surgeons, and the specimen that was removed in this case was one of those rare forms that have a cyst wall more than suggestive of the wall of part of the alimentary canal. At present the belief is2 that excepting hydatids and cysts