Surgical Lectures of 150 Years Ago

Proceedings of the Upsala Medical Society: How it all started 150 years ago

Upsala läkareförening (The Upsala Medical Society) was founded in 1832 on the initiative of Professor Israel Hwasser, who was the chairman of the society until his death in 1860. The aims of the society were to promote medical science and create an atmosphere of friendship and collegiality among members of the faculty of medicine, medical students, andmedical practitioners. An important functio...

Medical education and practice in Britain 150 years ago: a verbatim testimony.

On 11 February 1834 the House of Commons ordered that a select committee be appointed to inquire into and consider the laws, regulations, and usages regarding the education and practice of the various branches of the medical profession in the United Kingdom, and on 13 August it ordered the committee's report to be printed. This appeared in three volumes totalling over 800 pages and comprised mo...

40 Years Ago

always voice his unhappy or distressing thoughts, and it is often most difficult to recognise the way he is tending, or having recognised it to induce him to seek the help and advice that would save him. And even when his condition has been realised and the man himself persuaded to have treatment, the difficulties in the ^ay of obtaining it for him are often insuperable. Outside of London and a...

Twenty Five Years Ago

so rarely met witH that a description of the following case is not without interest. AEuropean, aged 38, was admitted on the 4th February, 1929, with paresis of the left arm and leg. His previous history showed that he contracted syphilis in 1915, for which he was treated with a full course of murcury and galvarsan. In 1919 his Wasserman reaction was still positive and he had a further course j...

Seventy Five Years Ago